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Friday 22 July 2022
Michelle Obama’s book ‘The Light We Carry’ coming this fall

By HILLEL ITALIE in 2017, shortly after he left cles — the earned wisdom
AP National Writer office, with parent com- that helps her continue to
NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle pany Penguin Random ‘become.’” On Thursday,
Obama will have a book House for their respective Penguin Random House
out this fall, “The Light We memoirs. A spokesperson announced it was renam-
Carry,” in which she reflects declined to discuss finan- ing an annual writing prize
upon her experiences and cial terms for “The Light We in her honor, the $10,000
shares insights on navigat- Carry.” Michelle Obama Award for
ing an increasingly stressful Crown will publish the 336- Memoir, part of an awards
world. page book Nov. 15, almost program for public high
It’s the former first lady’s exactly four years after the school students the com-
first entirely new work since release of “Becoming,” and pany launched in 1993.
the 2018 release of her ac- has announced a first print- Since completing “Becom-
claimed blockbuster “Be- ing of 2.75 million copies for ing,” Michelle Obama
coming,” which has sold the U.S. and Canada. “The has written an edition
more than 17 million copies Light We Carry: Overcom- for younger readers and
worldwide, surpassing the ing in Uncertain Times” will launched a podcast. With
sales of any memoir by a come out simultaneously in Barack Obama and their
previous first lady or mod- 14 languages and 27 coun- production company High-
ern president, including her tries, with additional rights er Ground she has worked
husband, former President deals expected. on such projects as the Os-
Barack Obama. “In ‘The Light We Carry,’ car-winning documentary
“I’ve learned it’s okay to Mrs. Obama offers read- “American Factory” and
recognize that self-worth ers a series of fresh stories a documentary about her
comes wrapped in vulner- and insightful reflections on tour for “Becoming,” when
ability, and that what we change, challenge, and she appeared at arenas
share as humans on this power, including her belief nationwide with such guest
earth is the impulse to strive that when we light up for interviewers as Oprah Win-
for better, always and no others, we can illuminate frey and Sarah Jessica
matter what,” Michelle the richness and potential Parker. Promotional plans
Obama writes in the book’s of the world around us, dis- for “The Light We Carry” will
introduction, included in covering deeper truths and be announced later.
Thursday’s announcement new pathways for prog- Crown is also the long-
by the Random House Pub- ress,” the publisher’s an- time publisher of Barack
lishing Group and its im- nouncement reads in part. Obama, himself a million-
print Crown.“We become This image released by Random House shows “The Light We “Drawing from her experi- selling author. “A Prom-
Carry” by former first lady and author Michelle Obama.
bolder in brightness. If you Associated Press ences as a mother, daugh- ised Land,” the first of two
know your light, you know ter, spouse, friend, and planned memoirs about
yourself. You know your breeds calmness and an and this to me is the bed- First Lady, she shares the his presidency, came out
own story in an honest way. ability to maintain perspec- rock of all things.” habits and principles she in 2020. A spokesperson
In my experience, this type tive, which leads, finally, The new book is not part of has developed to success- declined to comment on
of self-knowledge builds to being able to connect the reported eight-figure fully adapt to change and when the next book will be
confidence, which in turn meaningfully with others — deal the Obamas reached overcome various obsta- released.q

Pete Seeger gets own stamp;

ceremony planned at Newport Folk

NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Pete port, Rhode Island, the site thoughts and ideas can
Seeger, the banjo-playing of the Newport Folk Festi- go from the sender over
folk singer whose music val, where Seeger was a a tremendous expanse to
was indelibly intertwined performer and for a time a a single receiver and get
with his social activism, member of the board. This delivered.” Seeger, a Har-
was honored Thursday as year’s three-day festival vard dropout who died in
the latest American musi- starts Friday. 2014 at age 94, wrote or
cian to appear on a U.S. “It is an honor to see a co-wrote “If I Had a Ham-
postage stamp. photo of my father I’d mer,” “Turn, Turn, Turn,”
The forever stamp, which taken some 60 years ago and “Where Have All the In this May 5, 2006, file photo, Pete Seeger talks during an
features a color-tinted, become this wonderful for- Flowers Gone.” He is also interview in Beacon, N.Y. In this May 5, 2006, file photo, Pete
black-and-white photo- ever stamp,” his son, Dan credited with popularizing Seeger talks during an interview in Beacon, N.Y.
graph taken in the early Seeger, said in a state- “We Shall Overcome,” an Associated Press
1960s showing Seeger in ment. “My dad did most anthem of the civil rights
profile singing and play- of his correspondence movement. “He was not peace movement and 1950s and 1960s after an
ing his five-string banjo, by hand — written letters only a champion of tradi- protecting the environ- appearance before the
went on sale at post of- — and I can imagine him tional American music, he ment,” said Tom Foti, the House Un-American Ac-
fices nationwide, accord- smiling and of course ap- was also celebrated as a postal service’s product tivities Committee for his
ing to a U.S. Postal Service preciating this great honor unifying power by promot- solutions vice president. Communist affiliations, his
spokesperson. A special because he relied on the ing a variety of causes, While Seeger, a lifelong career never slowed and
ceremony was planned U.S. Mail with its simplicity such as civil rights, workers’ activist, was exiled from he continued to record
for the evening in New- and honesty, knowing that rights, social justice, the commercial air play in the and tour.q