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Muziek, Theater

Richard Schoch – How Sondheim Can Change Your Life

Richard Schoch How Sondheim Can Change Your Life review, recensie en informatie boek over de Amerikaanse songwriter en musicalcomponist Stephen Sondheim. Op 19 november 2024 verschijnt bij Atria Books het boek over Stephen Sondheim geschreven door Richard Schoch, professor of drama aan de Queen’s University Belfast. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlands vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Richard Schoch How Sondheim Can Change Your Life review, recensie

  • “Fascinating and wise … offers a fresh way to look at some great works, without ignoring Sondheim’s greatness as a lyricist and composer. Rather, Schoch often demonstrates the subtle brilliance with which Sondheim uses his words and music to illuminate character.” (Jonathan Mandell, New York Theater)
  • “Richard Schoch presents the complexity of Sondheim’s work with clarity and accessibility. Sondheim continues to change my life, and this book will help many readers, listeners, and theatergoers to understand a bit better how he does it.” (Ben Brantley)

Richard Schoch How Sondheim Can Change Your Life

How Sondheim Can Change Your Life

  • Auteur: Richard Schoch (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: muziekboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria Books
  • Verschijnt: 19 november 2024
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over de Amerikaanse componist Stephen Sondheim

Discover the powerful and universal lessons from the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, the genius behind such musical theater masterworks as Company, West Side Story, and Into the Woods.

Stephen Sondheim died on November 26, 2021, but for countless fans around the world, he is “still here,” to quote one of his lyrics. With acclaimed revivals of his landmark shows occurring around the world and introducing new generations to the man who transformed American musical theater, Sondheim’s legacy has only grown. What is it about such classic songs as “Rose’s Turn” from Gypsy, “Send in the Clowns” from A Little Night Music, and “Children Will Listen” from Into the Woods that speaks to us so intimately and profoundly?

How Sondheim Can Change Your Life makes the case that Sondheim’s greatness—beyond the clever lyrics and adventurous music—rests in his ability to tell stories that relate to us all. From Louise’s desire for freedom as Gypsy Rose Lee to Sweeney Todd’s thirst for revenge, we as an audience relate easily to Sondheim’s characters. His works understand us as much as we understand them.

Following the arc of Sondheim’s career, the book is rich with stories about productions and iconic performers, deep readings of his music and lyrics, and insights into his creative process. But more than that, it reveals how Sondheim’s works can enrich our own lives.

Richard Schoch is professor of drama at Queen’s University Belfast. He graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University and received his PhD from Stanford University. He has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, The Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Stanford Humanities Center. Before launching his academic career, Schoch directed plays in New York City and worked for the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

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Dierenboeken, Vogels

Sy Montgomery – What the Chicken Knows

Sy Montgomery What the Chicken Knows review, recensie en informatie boek over de kip. Op 5 november 2024 verschijnt bij Atria Books het boek over kippen van de Amerikaanse schrijfster en natuuronderzoeker Sy Montgomery. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Sy Montgomery What the Chicken Knows review, recensie en informatie

  • “Sy Montgomery is one of our finest chroniclers of the natural world.” (The New York Times)
  • “Spellbinding and informative…seamlessly covering natural history and up-to-date science. Montgomery’s not-to-be-missed chicken chronicle is enlightening and enlivening.” (Booklist)

What the Chicken Knows

A New Appreciation of the World’s Most Familiar Bird

  • Auteur: Sy Montgomery (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: natuurboek, vogelboek
  • Uitgever: Atria Books
  • Verschijnt: 5 november 2024
  • Omvang: 96 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst boek over de kip van Sy Montgomery

For more than two decades, Sy Montgomery—whose The Soul of an Octopus was a National Book Award finalist—has kept a flock of chickens in her backyard. Each chicken has an individual personality (outgoing or shy, loud or quiet, reckless or cautious) and connects with Sy in her own way.

In this short, delightful book, Sy takes us inside the flock and reveals all the things that make chickens such remarkable creatures: only hours after leaving the egg, they are able to walk, run, and peck; relationships are important to them and the average chicken can recognize more than one hundred other chickens; they remember the past and anticipate the future; and they communicate specific information through at least twenty-four distinct calls. Visitors to her home are astonished by all this, but for Sy what’s more astonishing is how little most people know about chickens, especially considering there are about twenty percent more chickens on earth than people.

With a winning combination of personal narrative and science, What the Chicken Knows is exactly the kind of book that has made Sy Montgomery such a beloved and popular author.

Sy Montgomery (7 Februari 1957, Frankfurt am Main, Duitsland) is a naturalist, adventurer, and author of more than thirty acclaimed books of nonfiction for adults and children, including The Hummingbirds’ Gift, The Hawk’s Way, the National Book Award finalist The Soul of an Octopus, and most recently, Of Time and Turtles, which was a New York Times bestseller. The recipient of numerous honors, including lifetime achievement awards from the Humane Society and the New England Booksellers Association, she lives in New Hampshire with her husband, writer Howard Mansfield, and a border collie.

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Journalistieke boeken, Kranten, New York, Verenigde Staten

Susan Mulcahy & Frank DiGiacomo – Paper of Wreckage

Susan Mulcahy & Frank DiGiacomo Paper of Wreckage review, recensie en informatie boek over de Amerikaanse tabloid en krant The New York Post. Op 8 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Atria Books het boek over de geschiedenis van de krant The New York Post, geschreven door Susan Mulcahy en Frank DiGiacomo. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteurs en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Susan Mulcahy & Frank DiGiacomo Paper of Wreckage

  • “Five decades worth of raucous behind-the-scenes anecdotes, from the creation of the notorious headline ‘Headless Body in Topless Bar’ to the genesis of the popular gossip column Page Six, fill this scintillating oral history of the New York Post. . . . It’s a juicy, gonzo slice of New York history.” (Publishers Weekly)
  • “The commentary from the candid interviewees, like the Post itself, has it all, from delightfully sublime and critically incisive to completely nonsensical. . . . An interesting and rollicking narrative that will stand as a significant contribution to the history of mass media.” (Kirkus)

Susan Mulcahy & Frank DiGiacomo Paper of Wreckage

Paper of Wreckage, The New York Post 1976-2024

The Rogues, Renegades, Wiseguys, Wankers, and Relentless Reporters Who Redefined American Media

  • Auteurs: Susan Mulcahy, Frank DiGiacomo (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: journalistiek boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria Books
  • Verschijnt: 8 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 592 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over de Amerikaanse krant The New York Post

A jaw-dropping and unputdownable oral history of the New York Post and the legendary tabloid’s cultural impact from the 1970s to today as recounted by the men and women who witnessed it firsthand.

By the 1970s, the country’s oldest continuously published newspaper had fallen on hard times, just like its nearly bankrupt hometown. When the New York Post was sold to a largely unknown Australian named Rupert Murdoch in 1976, staffers hoped it would be the start of a new golden age for the paper.

Now, after the nearly fifty years Murdoch has owned the tabloid, American culture reflects what Murdoch first started in the 1970s: a celebrity-focused, noisy, one-sided media empire that reached its zenith with Fox News.

Drawing on extensive interviews with key players and in-depth research, this eye-opening, wildly entertaining oral history shows us how we got to this point. It’s a rollicking tale full of bad behavior, inflated egos, and a corporate culture that rewarded skirting the rules and breaking norms. But working there was never boring and now, you can discover the entire remarkable true story of America’s favorite tabloid newspaper.

Susan Mulcahy started at the New York Post as a copygirl while still in college. She worked at “Page Six” from 1978 to 1985, including three years as editor, before moving to Newsday to write a rival column. She has also written for The New Yorker and The New York Times.

Frank DiGiacomo worked as a “Page Six” freelancer in the late 1980s and became an editor of the column from 1991 to 1993. He has since worked as a writer and editor, covering media and the entertainment business, for Vanity Fair, The Hollywood Reporter, and Billboard, where he is currently an executive editor.

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Engelse schrijfsters, Engelse thriller

Janice Hallett – The Examiner

Janice Hallett The Examiner recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de nieuwe Engelse thriller. Op 10 september 2024 verschijnt bij Atria Books de nieuwe thriller van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijfster en journalist Janice Hallett. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de thriller is nu nog niet verkrijgbaar.

Janice Hallett The Examiner recensie, review en informatie

  • “Gripping… Hallett builds intrigue with a cast of unreliable (though consistently intriguing) characters, which means the twists keep coming. Recommended for fans of academic mysteries and those who enjoy puzzle-within-a-puzzle mysteries such as Cara Hunter’s Murder in the Family and Anthony Horowitz’s Magpie Murders.” (Library Journal)
  • “Hallett’s unconventional novel proves both creative and astute. Dare we say it? A tour de force.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Janice Hallett The Examiner

The Examiner

Six Students, One Murder. Can You Solve the Crime?

  • Auteur: Janice Hallet (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse thriller
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria Books
  • Verschijnt: 10 september 2024
  • Omvang: 480 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / paperback /  ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuwe thriller van Janice Hallett

Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative page-turner follows a group of students in an art master’s program that goes dangerously awry, from the internationally bestselling “new queen of crime” (Electric Literature) Janice Hallett.

University professor Gela Nathaniel must make her new master’s program in multimedia art succeed. If it doesn’t, then Royal Hastings University will cut her funding and she’ll be out of the job she loves. The six students in this inaugural course will be key to that success…but how well has she selected the team?

The students include a talented young sculptor who is determined to graduate with top grades, a former gallery owner with limited artistic skills, a single mother more interested in a paycheck than homework, a people pleaser who struggles with technology, a marketing executive suffering from burnout, and a successful artist who seems rather overqualified for the program.

At the end of the academic year, when the examiner arrives to grade the students’ final project, he finds himself asking what happened. Because if someone in that course isn’t in mortal danger, then they are already dead. But who, and why?

He wants us to read through the students’ coursework, texts, message boards, and final essays to see if we can find the answers. Only one thing is certain: nothing about this course has been left to chance, and each of these students has their own very different agenda.

Janice Hallett (1969) is a former magazine editor, award-winning journalist, and government communications writer. She wrote articles and speeches for, among others, the Cabinet Office, Home Office, and Department for International Development. Her enthusiasm for travel has taken her around the world several times, from Madagascar to the Galapagos, Guatemala to Zimbabwe, Japan, Russia, and South Korea. A playwright and screenwriter, she penned the feminist Shakespearean stage comedy NetherBard and cowrote the feature film Retreat. She lives in London.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Journalistieke boeken, Non-Fictie, Verenigde Staten

Alice Driver – Life and Death of the American Worker

Alice Driver Life and Death of the American Worker recensie, review en informatie boek over the Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company. Op 3 september 2024 verschijnt bij Atria Books het journalistieke boek van Alice Driver over immigranten die strijden tegen de uitbuiting van de grootste vleesverpakker in de Verenigde Staten. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het journalistieke boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling is niet verkrijgbaar.

Alice Driver Life and Death of the American Worker recensie, review en informatie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Life and Death of the American Worker, geschreven door Alice Driver dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Alice Driver Life and Death of the American Worker

Life and Death of the American Worker

The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company

  • Auteur: Alice Driver (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: journalistieke non-fictie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria Books
  • Verschijnt: 3 september 2024
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over de strijd tegen de misstanden in de Amerikaanse vleesindustrie

Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, an explosive exposé of the toxic labor practices at the largest meatpacking company in America and the immigrant workers who had the courage to fight back.

On June 27, 2011, a deadly chemical accident took place inside the Tyson Foods chicken processing plant in Springdale, Arkansas, where the company is headquartered. The company quickly covered it up although the spill left their employees injured, sick, and terrified. Over the years, Arkansas-based reporter Alice Driver was able to gain the trust of the immigrant workers who survived the accident. They rewarded her persistence by giving her total access to their lives.

Having spent hours in their kitchens and accompanying them to doctor’s appointments, Driver has memorialized in these pages the dramatic lives of husband and wife Plácido and Angelina, who liked to spend weekends planting seeds from their native El Salvador in their garden; father and son Martín and Gabriel, who migrated from Mexico at different times and were trying to patch up their relationship; and many other immigrants who survived the chemical accident in Springdale that day.

During the course of Alice’s reporting, the COVID-19 pandemic struck the community, and the workers were forced to continue production in unsafe conditions, watching their colleagues get sick and die one by one. These essential workers, many of whom only speak Spanish and some of whom are illiterate—all of whom suffer the health consequences of Tyson’s negligence—somehow found the strength and courage to organize and fight back, culminating in a lawsuit against Tyson Foods, the largest meatpacking company in America.

Richly detailed, fiercely honest, and deeply reported, Life and Death of the American Worker will forever change the way we think about the people who prepare our food.

Alice Driver is a J. Anthony Lukas and James Beard Award–winning writer from the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. Driver is the author of Life and Death of the American Worker, More or Less Dead, and the forthcoming Artists All Around, a memoir about her family’s relationship with Maurice Sendak, the author of Where the Wild Things Are. She is also the translator of Abecedario de Juárez. She lives in the Ozark Mountains.

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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Amerikaanse thrillers

William Kent Krueger – Spirit Crossing

William Kent Krueger Spirit Crossing recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse thriller die zich in Minnesota afspeelt. Op 20 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij Atria Books het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse thrillerschrijver William Kent Kruger. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de thriller, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de spannende roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

William Kent Krueger Spirit Crossing recensie, review en informatie

  • “Krueger introduces an eclectic host of characters, lays out an immersive setting, and fleshes out a heartfelt mystery that will stay with readers long after the final page.” (Minnesota Monthly)
  • “Krueger maintains an eerie tone throughout, folding subtle supernatural elements into one of his most puzzling mysteries to date. This long-running series still has plenty of gas in the tank.” (Publishers Weekly)

William Kent Krueger Spirit Crossing

Spirit Crossing

Cork O’Conner thriller

  • Auteur: William Kent Krueger (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse thriller
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria Books
  • Verschijnt: 20 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuwe thriller van William Kent Krueger

A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twentieth book in the New York Times bestselling series from William Kent Krueger­, “a master storyteller at the top of his game” (Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author).

The disappearance of a local politician’s teenaged daughter is major news in Minnesota. As a huge manhunt is launched to find her, Cork O’Connor’s grandson stumbles across the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman—but nobody seems that interested. Nobody, that is, except Cork and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police. As Cork and the tribal officers dig into the circumstances of this mysterious and grim discovery, they uncover a connection to the missing teenager. And soon, it’s clear that Cork’s grandson is in danger of being the killer’s next victim.

William Kent Krueger (16 november 1950, Torrington, Wyoming) is the New York Times bestselling author of The River We Remember, This Tender Land, Ordinary Grace (winner of the Edgar Award for best novel), and the original audio novella The Levee, as well as nineteen acclaimed books in the Cork O’Connor mystery series, including Lightning Strike and Fox Creek. He lives in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis, Saint Paul) with his family.

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Feministische boeken, Geschiedenisboeken, Verenigde Staten, Vrouwen

Clara Bingham – The Movement

Clara Bingham The Movement recensie, review en informatie boek over de ingrijpende veranderingen van 1963 tot 1973 in Amerika door vrouwenemancipatie. Op 30 juli 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Atria Books het Engelstalige boek over how women’s liberation transformed America 1963-1973, geschreven door de Amerikaanse journalist en schrijfster Clara Bingham. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Clara Bingham The Movement recensie en reviews

  • “Nobody burned a bra and it wasn’t just White feminism. Having lived and covered the modern Women’s Movement, I welcome Clara Bingham’s compelling book, an enlightening record for new generations. And a chilling reminder of rights still under attack today. This is invaluable living history.” (Lynn Sherr, journalist, author, feminist historian)
  • “Bingham celebrates the women who brought about change. Ranging across politics, health, employment, sports, and the arts, and including BIPOC and LGBTQ+ voices, this compilation effectively recreates a momentous decade.” (Booklist)
  • “A fascinating oral history of the women’s movement from 1963 to 1973, a decade when so much progress was made and so much more seemed just beyond the horizon.” (Parade)

Clara Bingham The Movement

The Movement

How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973

  • Auteur: Clara Bingham (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria Books
  • Verschijnt: 30 juli 2024
  • Omvang; 576 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $32.50 / $16.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over vrouwenemancipatie in Amerika van Clara Bingham

A comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes—from former Newsweek reporter and author of the “powerful and moving” (The New York Times) Witness to the Revolution.

For lovers of both Barbie and Gloria Steinem, The Movement is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. Through the captivating individual voices of the people who lived it, The Movement tells the intimate inside story of what it felt like to be at the forefront of the modern feminist crusade, when women rejected thousands of years of custom and demanded the freedom to be who they wanted and needed to be.

This engaging history traces women’s awakening, organizing, and agitating between the years of 1963 and 1973, when a decentralized collection of people and events coalesced to create a spontaneous combustion. From Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, to the underground abortion network the Janes, to Shirley Chisholm’s presidential campaign and Billie Jean King’s 1973 battle of the sexes, Bingham artfully weaves together the fragments of that explosion person by person, bringing to life the emotions of this personal, cultural, and political revolution. Artists and politicians, athletes and lawyers, Black and white, The Movement brings readers into the rooms where these women insisted on being treated as first class citizens, and in the process, changed the fabric of American life.

Clara Bingham (1983, Louisville, Kentucky) is an award-winning journalist and the author of Witness to the Revolution, Women on the Hill, and the cowriter of Class Action. A former Washington, DC, correspondent for Newsweek, her writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Non-Fictie, True Crime Boeken

Mikita Brottman – Guilty Creatures

Mikita Brottman Guilty Creatures recensie, review en informatie true crime boek over Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida. Op 23 juli 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Atria het boek over Tallahassee, Florida van de Amerikaanse schrijfster en psychoanalist Mikita Brottman. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Mikita Brottman Guilty Creatures recensie en review

  • “A nonfiction noir that combines propulsive true crime with stylish writing, Brottman’s account of a murder, a love triangle and small-town secrets in Tallahassee, Fla., makes for an unputdownable read. There’s sex, death and money, yes — but also a smart, sensitive examination of a group of people and what happens when lies take over a life.” (The New York Times)

Mikita Brottman Guilty Creatures

Guilty Creatures

Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

  • Auteur: Mikita Brottman (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: true crime, geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria Books
  • Verschijnt: 23 juli 2024
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $28.99 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het true crime boek over Tallahassee van Mikita Brottman

Mike and Denise Williams had a tight knit, seemingly unbreakable bond with childhood friends, Brian and Kathy Winchester. The two couples were devout, hardworking Baptists who lived perfect, quintessentially Southern lives. Their friendship seemed ironclad. That is, until December 16, 2000, when Denise’s husband Mike disappeared while duck hunting on Lake Seminole.

After no body was found, everyone assumed that Mike had drowned in a tragic accident, his body eaten by alligators. But things took an unexpected turn when, within five years of Mike’s disappearance, Brian Winchester divorced his wife and married Denise. Their surprising romance set tongues talking. People began wondering how long they had been a couple, and whether they had anything to do with Mike’s death. It took another twelve years for the truth to come out—and when it did, it was unimaginable.

Now, the full, shocking story is revealed by Mikita Brottman, acclaimed true crime writer of the “enthralling” (San Francisco Book Review) An Unexplained Death. Through tenacious research and clear-eyed prose, she probes the psychology of a couple who killed and explores how it feels to live for eighteen years with murder on the soul.

A fascinating page-turner of modern noir, Guilty Creatures is destined to become an instant true crime classic.

Mikita Brottman (1966, Sheffield, Engeland) is a Britisch-American writer and psychoanalyst living in Baltimore, Maryland. Her most recent book, An Unexplained Death, was shortlisted for the Gold Dagger Award for nonfiction by the Crime Writers Association of the UK. She has a DPhil from Oxford University and is a professor of literature at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

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Memoir, Thailand

Kao Kalia Yang – Where Rivers Part

Kao Kalia Yang Where Rivers Part recensie en informatie memoir van de in Thailand geboren Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 19 maart 2024 verschijnt bij Atria Books de memoir over haar moeder van schrijfster Kao Kalia Yang die op zesjarige leeftijd samen met haar gezin vluchtte uit Thailand. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Kao Kalia Yang Where Rivers Part recensie

Als er een boekbespreking of recensie van Where Rivers Part, A Story of My Mother’s life van Kao Kalia Yang in de media verschijnen besteden we er hier aandacht aan.

  • “Yang keeps readers as close as possible to Tswb’s perspective, treating her history and hardships with care. Where Rivers Part is a sensitive, unforgettable account of one mother’s immeasurable strength and love for her family.” (Esquire)
  • “Yang’s memoirs of Hmong life, traditions and displacement are not just powerful additions to the canon of immigrant literature — they are powerful books about life itself.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

Kao Kalia Yang Where Rivers Part

Where Rivers Part

A Story of My Mother’s Life

  • Auteur: Kao Kalia Yang (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria Books
  • Verschijnt: 19 maart 2024
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $28,99 / $14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de memoir van de Thais-Amerikaanse schrijfster Kao Kalia Yang

A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety told from the perspective of the author’s incredible mother who survived, and helped her family escape, against all odds.

Born in 1961 in war-torn Laos, Tswb’s childhood was marked by the violence of America’s Secret War and the CIA recruitment of the Hmong and other ethnic minorities into the lost cause. By the time Tswb was a teenager, the US had completely vacated Laos, and the country erupted into genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, who were labeled as traitors. Fearing for their lives, Tswb and her family left everything they knew behind and fled their village for the jungle.

Perpetually on the run and on the brink of starvation, Tswb eventually crossed paths with the man who would become her future husband. Leaving her own mother behind, she joined his family at a refugee camp, a choice that would haunt her for the rest of her life. Eventually becoming a mother herself, Tswb raised her daughters in a state of constant fear and hunger until they were able to emigrate to the US, where the determined couple enrolled in high school even though they were both nearly thirty, and worked grueling jobs to provide for their children.

Now, her daughter, Kao Kalia Yang, reveals her mother’s astonishing saga with tenderness and unvarnished clarity, giving voice to the countless resilient refugees who are often overlooked as one of the essential foundations of this country. Evocative, stirring, and unforgettable, Where Rivers Part is destined to become a classic.

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Journalistieke boeken, Non-Fictie

Kurt Wagner – Battle for the Bird

Kurt Wagner Battle for the Bird boek over Elon Musk en Twitter recensie en informatie. Op 20 februari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Atria Books het boek Battle for the Bird, Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter’s Soul, geschreven door de Amerikaanse journalist Kurt Wagner. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. De Nederlandse vertaling, De strijd om het vogeltje verschijnt op 4 juni 2024 bij Uitgeverij Volt.

Kurt Wagner Battle for the Bird recensie

  • “A riveting account of how ‘hubris and resentment and naïveté’ drove Elon Musk’s tumultuous 2022 takeover of Twitter….This is Barbarians at the Gate for the social media age.” (Publishers Weekly)
  • “Solid business and tech journalism about how a public good became a nuisance in the hands of a reckless billionaire.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Kurt Wagner boeken en informatie

Kurt Wagner is oorspronkelijk afkomstig uit de omgeving van Seattle maar tegenwoordig woonachtig in San Francisco. Hij studeerde communicatie en politieke wetenschappen aan de Santa Clara University. Sinds 2012 is hij werkzaam als economie- en tech journalist voor een aantal vooraanstaande media.

Zijn boek over de overname van Twitter door Elon Musk in 2022, waarover je hier alles leest, verschijnt in februari 2024 bij uitgeverij Atria Press. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek van Kurt Wagner is nog niet aangekondigd.

Kurt Wagner Battle for the Bird

Battle for the Bird

Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter’s Soul

  • Auteur: Kurt Wagner (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: journalistiek boek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Atria Books
  • Verschijnt: 20 januari 2024
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $30.00 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over Twitter van Kurt Wagner

An expertly reported investigation into Twitter’s messy corporate history—including Elon Musk’s takeover in 2022, its outsized cultural impact, and its significant role in shaping how the world gets its news.

Bloomberg journalist Kurt Wagner takes you inside Twitter’s everchanging headquarters, charting its rise from flippant 140-character posts to one of the world’s most consequential tech companies. From Jack Dorsey’s triumphant return as CEO in 2015 to the rise and fall of @RealDonaldTrump to the contentious $44 billion sale to Elon Musk, Battle for the Bird exposes the messy reality and relentless challenges that come with building a global social network. With enthralling minute-by-minute accounts of Musk’s controversial takeover from insider employees, Battle for the Bird exposes the real-world impact of the South African billionaire’s new role as owner, and employees’ growing horror as Dorsey’s idealistic promises (and the “Twitter” name) go up in flames before their eyes.

Battle for the Bird is the definite, objective, and substantive account of the fight over the world’s most influential social media platform. Now, for the first time—through deeply sourced, exclusive interviews—you will discover how the visionary promises of one iconoclast gave way to the darker, yet-to-be-defined motives of another, upending the virtual status quo and impacting the flow of news and information to the masses.

Nederlandse vertaling

Kurt Wagner De strijd om het vogeltje recensieKurt Wagner (Verenigde Staten) – De strijd om het vogeltje
Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk en het gevecht om Twitter
journalistieke non-fictie
Uitgever: Uitgeverij Volt
Verschijnt: 4 juni 2024

Walter Isaacson Elon Musk biografie recensieWalter Isaakson (Verenigde Staten) – Elon Musk
biografie
Isaacson volgde Musk twee jaar lang. Hij woonde zijn vergaderingen bij, liep samen met hem door zijn fabrieken en spendeerde uren aan interviews met hem, zijn familie, vrienden, collega’s en vijanden. Het resultaat is een onthullend verhaal van binnenuit, vol met fantastische anekdotes over triomf en beroering, dat maar één vraag doet oplaaien: zijn de demonen die Musk drijven ook hetgeen wat nodig is voor innovatie en vooruitgang?…lees verder >

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