Sentences with phrase «american writer friend»

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I want to treat their stories with great care, not as an American (note: okay, Canadian here) writer with a laptop but as a sister and friend and advocate.

Screenwriter Will Reiser, a real - life friend of Seth Rogen, and a behind - the - scenes writer / producer in American comedy, loosely based the new 50/50 on his own life.

Harvey is an executive producer and he plays himself in talk show interviews sprinkled throughout, but Think Like a Man belongs to others as well, including Friends with Benefits writers Keith Merryman and David A. Newman, Barbershop director Tim Story, and a large, talented ensemble cast composed primarily of African - American actors.

SYNOPSIS: American writer and art - lover James Lord pays a visit to Paris in 1964 and is asked by his friend, artist Alberto Giacometti, to sit for a portrait.

was front and center in writer - director Jeff Baena's mind when he decided to follow that title sequence with a scene wherein medieval nun Aubrey Plaza and friends scream bloody murder at a groundskeeper in contemporary American (with ample use of not - particularly - clever contemporary curse words).

Chuck & Buck follows the reunion of two childhood friends, writer Mike White in the role of Buck and filmmaker Chris Weitz (About a Boy, American Pie) plays Chuck who now goes by Charlie.

As a prolific writer and renowned public intellectual, he frequently explored trends in American race relations and family life, hailing, for instance, the controversial report, «Equality of Educational Opportunity» (1966), by his friend James Coleman, which stressed the relationship between broken families and poor student performance in the public schools.

But, having seen what the editor at a traditional publisher did to a writer friend's wonderful ending — «We must rewrite this for the American market.»

Told in the immediate first - person voice of 10 - year - old Carrie, Zora Neale Hurston's best childhood friend, each chapter in Bond and Simon's story evokes the famous African American writer's early years in turn - of - the - last - century Florida.

American writer Paulding was a close friend of Washington Irving and held a number of positions in the U.S. Navy including Secretary of the Navy for about three years.

Three novellas from a master of the genre offer characters that have staying power: a wealthy 67 - year - old man, describing events leading up to the drowning of a younger friend; a Native American tracking a double - dealing friend to recover a clan relic, his stolen bearskin; and a middle - aged writer of formulaic biographies who glibly narrates his tribulations.

Kit Raine, an American writer living in Tuscany, is working on a biography of her close friend, a complex woman who continues to cast a shadow on Kit's own life.

Hosseini's stunning debut novel starts as an eloquent Afghan version of the American immigrant experience in the late 20th century, but betrayal and redemption come to the forefront when the narrator, a writer, returns to his ravaged homeland to rescue the son of his childhood friend after the boy's parents are shot during the Taliban takeover in the mid»90s.

I'm a member of American Christian Fiction Writers, so many of my friends engage in several minutes of prayer before writing.

One of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century, Neel is known for her portraits of family, friends, and neighbors as well as the writers, poets, and other cultural and political figures she encountered in a career spanning the 1920s to the 1980s.

One of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century, Neel is known for her portraits of family, friends, neighbors, and locals as well as writers, poets, and other cultural and political figures.

Other honors for her work include selection for the 2010 Best American Poetry, the 2010 University of Mississippi Summer Poet in Residence position, a DCCAH Artist Fellowship, the Friends of Literature Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and the Maureen Egen Exchange Award from Poets & Writers.

An American writer for Outing Magazine, Hubbard undertook an expedition in 1903 to Northern Labrador, accompanied by a friend and an Indian Guide.

This audio guide features commentary by artist Jay DeFeo, Dana Miller, curator of the permanent collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, Leah Levy, Director, The Jay DeFeo Trust, Corey Keller, associate curator of photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Greil Marcus, writer and critic, Ursula Cipa, and Fred Martin, friends of DeFeo.

Contributors — from artist and writer friends such as Karen Finley, Nan Goldin, Kiki Smith, Vince Aletti, C. Carr and Lucy R. Lippard, to David Cole, the lawyer who represented him in his case against Donald Wildmon and the American Family Association — together offer a compelling, provocative understanding of the artist and his work.

The science writer John Horgan (who's also a friend and Hudson Valley neighbor) has written a piece for Scientific American laying out the tradeoffs that face New York State, and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, if campaigners succeed in shutting the Indian Point nuclear plant and preventing gas drilling using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.