Alexandra Alter
Publishing Reporter at The New York Times
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Alexandra Alter
Readers can decide when "Notes to John," which shows the writer grappling with guilt and vulnerability, is published next week. In the summer of 2000, Joan Didion was mired in depression and self-doubt, struggling to write. Her daughter, Quintana, was spiraling again, drinking too much, withdrawing and then lashing out, and Didion feared Quintana might hurt herself, or even end her life. Didion tried antidepressants, but they sometimes left her feeling dizzy and unable to focus.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Alexandra Alter
Years later, when she decided to settle down again in New York, she was unable to afford rent. In 2014, she ended up living at Lenox Hill Women's Mental Health Shelter on the Upper East Side. A planned two-week stay stretched to 15 months. Eventually, Jones got a studio in a subsidized housing unit in Brooklyn, where she still lives. She gave up alcohol, though she couldn't recall exactly when. "I've been sober a long time," she said.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Alexandra Alter
17 hours agoAs more than a dozen lawsuits churn ahead, newly unsealed case files reveal the company’s stance: The pirated books Meta used to train its AI, including ones by Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline Woodson, and Andrew Sean Greer, are individually worthless. Last month, I prompted Meta AI with a question: “Is …
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Alexandra Alter
Featuring a Depression-era private eye, “Shadow Ticket” will be the 87-year-old writer’s first book since 2013.
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1 month ago |
pilotonline.com | Alexandra Alter
For years before she published “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee wrote short stories with themes that she would later explore in that now-classic novel: small town gossip and politics, tender and tense relationships between fathers and daughters, race relations. She tried to get them published but failed. Scholars and biographers have long thought the stories were lost or destroyed. But Lee was a meticulous archivist.
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For Joan Didion, Mementos of Her Daughter’s Childhood Became Material https://t.co/oiT3Nl5IbC
Wrote about a subject I am truly passionate about: animal friendships. A Hare, a Fox, an Owl, a Snail: Animal Memoirs Are Going Wild https://t.co/3NltNjtuW7
Fifteen years after “The Help,” Kathryn Stockett is publishing a new novel. https://t.co/fiy7V7ptl3
