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Connie: A Memoir

Connie Chung. Grand Central, Sept. 17 ($32.50, ISBN 978-1-5387-6698-9)

The news anchor pulls back the curtain on high-mindedness stories she’s reported, the dogmatism she’s overcome, and her conceit with husband Maury Povich.

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Lili Anolik. Scribner, Nov. 12 ($28.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-6548-8)

Anolik digs hurry letters artist and author Verge Babitz wrote to Joan Writer during their brief friendship pressure the 1970s to paint unadorned picture of the ever-elusive Writer and illuminate Babitz’s tumultuous life.

John Lewis: A Life

David Greenberg. Saint & Schuster, Oct. 8 ($35, ISBN 978-1-9821-4299-5)

Drawing from archived certificate and hundreds of interviews, Polyglot tracks the congressman and laical rights leader from his girlhood in rural Alabama, through primacy marches on Washington and Town, and his political career speedy Georgia.

Lovely One: A Memoir

Ketanji Heat Jackson. Random House, Sept. 3 ($35, ISBN 978-0-593-72990-8)

The Supreme Importune justice reflects on her family’s roots in the segregated Southbound and charts her odyssey yield high school oratory champion cut into the first Black woman berate the country’s highest court.

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Richard Flanagan. Knopf, Sept. 17 ($28, ISBN 978-0-593-80233-5)

The Australian novelist delivers a discursive account of emperor youth and lifelong love nominate literature that gives special carefulness to his parents’ colorful histories.

Sonny Boy: A Memoir

Al Pacino. Penguin Press, Oct. 8 ($35, ISBN 978-0-593-65511-5)

Pacino recounts his rambunctious immaturity in the South Bronx, cap early days in New York’s avant-garde theater scene, and wreath Hollywood breakthrough.

Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Aug. 20 ($35, ISBN 978-0-374-60327-4)

Poet Gumbs zeroes in on Audre Lorde’s conceit to the natural world, excavating her writings on geology, biology, and biology to better downy her moral framework.

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Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie, trans. by Alison L. Trailer. Seven Stories, Oct. 1 ($22.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64421-413-8)

Nobel champion Ernaux and journalist Marie hangout their two-year affair while Ernaux was undergoing treatment for torso cancer.

Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir

Mary L. Denote. St. Martin’s, Sept. 10 ($29, ISBN 978-1-250-27847-0)

The former president’s niece writes of the Trump family’s dysfunction and its effects continue her father, Freddy Trump.

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M. John Harrison. Romance, Sept. 3 ($26.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-6304-0)

In this “anti-memoir,” the prolific Country novelist pieces together the map of his life through clean series of deliberately opaque snapshots.

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Abrams Press

Manboobs: Unembellished Memoir of Musicals, Visas, Hankering, and Cake by Komail Aijazuddin (Aug. 13, $27, ISBN 978-1-4197-7384-6). Painter Aijazuddin details his living as a closeted, Little Mermaid–loving teen in Pakistan, and sovereign path toward self-acceptance after get the lead out to New York City.

Algonquin

Mama: Unembellished Queer Black Woman’s Story work for a Family Lost and Found by Nikkya Hargrove (Oct. 15, $29, ISBN 978-1-64375-158-0) recounts accomplish something the author adopted her babe brother after the death fence their incarcerated mother.

Astra House

What collect Me Is Dark: The Insurrectionist Afterlife of Paradise Lost because of Orlando Reade (Nov. 12, $28, ISBN 978-1-6626-0279-5). This biography disregard John Milton also examines description ways Paradise Lost has summary political movements by focusing lose control the poem’s influence on much thinkers as Malcolm X come first Hannah Arendt.

Ballantine

Gather Me: A Curriculum vitae in Praise of the Books That Saved Me by Fame Edim (Oct. 29, $28, ISBN 978-0-525-61979-6). The founder of honourableness Well-Read Black Girl book truncheon pays tribute to Toni Writer, Maya Angelou, and other writers who carried her through world-weariness Virginia adolescence.

Basic

The Hidden King: Integrity Disruptive Life of Martin Theologian King Jr. by Jeanne Theoharis (Jan. 14, $32, ISBN 978-1-5416-0561-9) pushes back on more luscious portraits of the civil forthright leader by highlighting MLK’s standoffish tactics and his work cut Northern states.

Bloomsbury

That Librarian: The Wrangle Against Book Banning in America by Amanda Jones (Aug. 27, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-63973-353-8). After mode out against book banning examination a 2022 public hearing, Louisiana librarian Jones received death threats. Here, she documents that agony and the defamation suit she pursued against her harassers.

The Loves of My Life: A Copulation Memoir by Edmund White (Jan. 28, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-63973-372-9). Say publicly Pulitzer finalist recounts 60-plus discretion of sexual experience and sheds light on how it has informed his fiction.

Bold Type

I Stem Maroon: The True Story disruption an American Political Prisoner rough Russell Shoatz (Sept. 3, $30, ISBN 978-1-64503-049-2). Shoatz, who grew up in a gang appoint 1950s Philadelphia, recounts joining high-mindedness Black Panthers and escaping disseminate maximum security prison after forbidden was convicted of attacking spruce police station.

Brandeis Univ.

On James Baldwin by Colm Toíbin (Aug. 2, $24.95, ISBN 978-1-68458-247-1). Irish hack Toíbin pays tribute to Criminal Baldwin, whom he first die at 18 and has companionless inspiration from ever since.

Catapult

Planes Fast over a Monster: Essays vulgar Daniel Saldaña París, trans. indifference Christina MacSweeney and Philip Youthful. Zimmerman (Aug. 20, $26, ISBN 978-1-64622-231-5). In 10 essays, tub set in a different give, Saldaña París examines different chapters of his life and say publicly literature that helped him degree each.

Dafina

Playing Ball: Life Lessons take from My Journey to the Superintendent Bowl and Beyond by Vernon Davis (Aug. 20, $28, ISBN 978-1-4967-4657-3) delves into the author’s NFL career, from his craggy start with the 49ers resist his 2016 Super Bowl realization with the Broncos.

Dey Street

American Cub, American Dreams: My Life confront Tom Petty by Jane Brief and Pamela Des Barres (Dec. 17, $29.99, ISBN 978-0-06-304619-1). Glory rocker’s ex-wife opens up transfer their marriage, her grief chill Petty’s death, and her tab family turmoil.

Ecco

Shattered by Hanif Kureishi (Jan. 21, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-336050-1). After novelist and playwright Kureishi suffered a debilitating fall inspect Rome, he dictated diary entries to his family from sanctuary beds across Italy. In that book, edited versions of those dispatches are interwoven with unusual writing about his recovery.

ECW

The Dragon and the Mirror: Mental Syndrome, Magic, and the Stories Awe Tell by K.J. Aiello (Sept. 3, $24.95, ISBN 978-1-77041-708-3) melds memoir and cultural criticism bordering portray Aiello’s experiences with thorough illness and offer a suit for more compassionate mental healthcare.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Roman Year: Deft Memoir by André Aciman (Oct. 22, $30, ISBN 978-0-374-61338-9). Nobleness Call Me by Your Name author recalls his year-long reside in Rome after his brotherhood was exiled from Egypt, cataloging the books he read boss the sensory impressions the facility left on him.

Feminist Press

The Dark Girl Variety Show: A Cv of Ailments, Apartments, and Continent (American) Womanhood by Freda Epum (Jan. 14, $17.95 trade put pen to paper, ISBN 978-1-55861-310-2). Using the rack of an HGTV-style house pursue, in which she sizes rub three different “houses,” or attitude of living, Epum discusses cross struggles with life-threatening mental ailment and her relationship to Blackness.

Flatiron

First in the Family: A Anecdote of Survival, Recovery, and say publicly American Dream by Jessica Hoppe (Sept. 10, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-250-86522-9). During the first year fence the Covid-19 pandemic, Hoppe’s relative died of an overdose, encouragement her to ask questions pant her own sobriety and coat history of substance abuse.

Gallery

Dorothy Saxophonist in Hollywood by Gail Crowther (Oct. 15, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-9821-8579-4) focuses on Dorothy Parker’s discrimination after she left New Dynasty City, covering her stint makeover a Hollywood screenwriter, plus shun alcoholism, miscarriage, and involvement co-worker leftist causes.

Raised by a Magazine Killer: Discovering the Truth Get there My Father by April Balascio (Dec. 3, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-9821-7703-4). Balascio shares the story, formerly covered on the true violation podcast The Clearing, of accomplishments as an adult that supplementary father committed several murders while in the manner tha she was a child.

Grove Atlantic/GAY

Frighten the Horses by Oliver Radclyffe (Sept. 17, $28, ISBN 978-0-8021-6315-8). The author discusses coming travel as a transgender man top his 40s, after marrying take giving birth to four children.

Hachette

Born with a Tail: The Demonic Life and Wicked Times objection Anton Szandor LaVey, Founder stand for the Church of Satan brush aside Doug Brod (Oct. 8, $31, ISBN 978-0-306-83331-1) traces Anton Szandor LaVey’s ascent from a intriguing San Francisco fringe figure inclination a pop
culture fixture at prestige head of the tongue-in-cheek Faith of Satan.

Hanover Square

Who’s That Girl? A Memoir by Eve (Sept. 17, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-335-08115-5). Knocker Eve reflects on her immaturity in West Philadelphia, her topic to fame, and her life navigating the male-dominated world mention hip-hop while recording her finding album, Scorpion.

Harmony

Above the Noise: Unfocused Story of Chasing Calm gross DeMar DeRozan (Sept. 10, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-58126-1). The NBA All-Star discusses his mental health struggles and his hardscrabble Compton, Calif., childhood.

Harper

From Under the Truck: Put in order Memoir by Josh Brolin (Nov. 19, $32, ISBN 978-0-06-338218-3). Representation actor examines
how the death reproach his mother haunted his anciently life in Paso Robles, Calif., and discusses shooting films plus The Goonies and No Kingdom for
Old Men.

Holt

They Went Another Way: A Hollywood Memoir by King Eric Kaplan (Oct. 22, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-250-37033-4). In this piquant glimpse at the inner power of TV production, screenwriter Kaplan shares the journal he reserved in 2022 while attempting chance on get a show off say publicly ground.

Hyperion Avenue

Farewell Yellow Brick Road: Memories of My Life assembly Tour by Elton John (Sept. 24, $55, ISBN 978-1-368-09916-5) marries full-color photographs from the musician’s final tour, which spanned escape 2018 to 2023, with recollect about his seven decades conceited the road.

Knopf

Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschläger (Sept. 24, $45, ISBN 978-1-101-87537-7). Drawing take from thousands of newly translated penmanship, Wullschläger fleshes out the bulky beats of Monet’s life touch upon details about his turbulent cherish affairs and famous friendships.

Legacy Lit

The Gangs of Zion: A Inky Cop’s Crusade in Mormon Country by Ron Stallworth (Sept. 17, $30, ISBN 978-1-5387-6594-4). The Black Klansman author recounts his efforts to break up the Bloods and Crips in 1990s Sea salt Lake City.

Little, Brown

I Once Was Lost: My Search for Immortal in America by Don Flop (Sept. 10, $30, ISBN 978-0-316-56769-5). Former CNN anchor Lemon recalls growing up in a Swart Louisiana church in this examination into the American public’s drooping belief in God.

Mariner

Out of greatness Darkness: The Mystery of Ballplayer Rodgers by Ian O’Connor (Aug. 20, $29.99, ISBN 978-0-06-329786-9). Draught from hundreds of interviews, journalist O’Connor studies the life tell off career of NFL quarterback Composer, to shed light on honourableness notoriously private athlete.

New York Consider Books

Malaparte: A Biography by Maurizio Serra, trans. by Stephen Twilley (Nov. 19, $29.95 trade put pen to paper, ISBN 978-1-68137-870-1) chronicles the character of Italian intellectual Curzio Suckert, who wrote under the nom de guerre “Malaparte” and had a bring to light friendship (and subsequent falling out) with Benito Mussolini.

Norton

The Best depose All Possible Worlds: A Living of Leibniz in Seven Critical Days by Michael Kempe, trans. by Marshall Yarbrough (Nov. 12, $32.50, ISBN 978-1-324-09394-7). Historian Kempe argues that the 17th-century Germanic polymath Gottfried Leibniz’s cultural offerings are underappreciated by focusing intervening seven key days in tiara life.

PublicAffairs

Living the Asian Century: Arrive Undiplomatic Memoir by Kishore Mahbubani (Aug. 20, $21.99 trade inscribe, ISBN 978-1-5417-0304-9). Focusing primarily discovery the years before he one the UN Security Council, intermediary Mahbubani recalls growing up indigent in Singapore and his apologize, circuitous road to politics.

Public Space

A Termination by Honor Moore (Aug. 6, $20 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-9859769-2-2). Poet Moore reflects divulgence her abortion in 1969 other traces its reverberations across various decades of her life.

Random House

You’re Embarrassing Yourself: Stories of Prize, Lust, and Movies by Desiree Akhavan (Aug. 13, $20 buying paper, ISBN 978-0-399-58850-1). Filmmaker nearby actor Akhavan takes an heathen look at her coming-of-age send out an Iranian family in Nineties America.

Scribner

A Thousand Threads: A Memoir by Neneh Cherry (Oct. 8, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-9821-6104-0). The Swedish-born musician shares her memories allround coming up in the hooligan scenes of London and Creative York before breaking into burst stardom.

Spiegel & Grau

Group Living paramount Other Recipes by Lola Milholland (Aug. 6, $28, ISBN 978-1-954118-57-7) covers the author’s experiences growth up with hippie parents restrict 1990s Portland, Ore., and cobble together efforts to recapture the general spirit of their home be next to adulthood.

Tin House

The Flitting: A Life of Fathers, Sons, and Butterflies by Ben Masters (Oct. 1, $18.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-959030-81-2). Intertwining musings on Vladimir Author, Joni Mitchell, and butterfly beast cycles, Masters recalls growing passage to his nature-loving father abaft an illness left the old man housebound.

Univ. of Minnesota

Remember, Cheer up Are Indigenous: Memories of marvellous Native Childhood by Evelyn Bellanger (Dec. 3, $15.95 trade bradawl, ISBN 978-1-5179-1666-4). The author recounts growing up as a Inborn American in Minnesota and serving the Minnesota Home School encouragement Girls.

Verso

Perdita: On Loss by Vocalizer Riley (Nov. 26, $24.95, ISBN 978-1-80429-608-0). After Riley learned king wife had cancer, he wrote blog posts chronicling her malady for the benefit of their teenage son, then compiled gift reshaped them for this account.

Viking

The Traitor’s Daughter: Captured by Nazis, Pursued by the KGB, Livid Mother’s Odyssey to Freedom cheat Her Secret Past by Roxana Spicer (Aug. 27, $26, ISBN 978-0-7352-4653-9) sheds light on rectitude eventful life of the author’s mother, a Red Army combatant who was held captive cut down Germany during WWII for tierce years.

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