Sentences with phrase «american writer living»

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.

Rei Shimura, an American writer living in Japan, enters the fascinating, secretive world of animation, or manga.

Race is also a complicated matter in O'Connor's work, which makes perfect sense for a white American writer living in the South and publishing right on the cusp of the civil rights movement.

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Then Jackie returned to her native Ireland, where she worked for International Living for seven years before joining the American Writers and Artists Inc, as Director of Marketing for their Travel Division.

International Living works closely with The American Writers and Artists, Inc. (AWAI), whose Travel Division is led by Director, Lori Allen.

For each writer, the past is very much present in American Catholicism in the form of three decisive years: the 1965 conclusion of Vatican II; the 1968 release of Humanae Vitae («Of Human Life»), Pope Paul VI's encyclical which banned artificial contraception; and the 1978 election of Pope John Paul II.

The book is at its best in its portrayal of a man who, even while being praised as one of the greatest living American writers, was swamped by loneliness and despair.

Updike is sometimes called the chronicler of our culture, the one writer historians will consult to find out what life was like in the latter half of the American century.

Writers such as Wattenberg contend that America is basically constituted by a set of ideas of universal validity, and whoever subscribes to these ideas is, in effect, an American, whether or not they actually live here.

Maybe because he, too, was a writer, the author seems fondest of Henry, who gave his life to mainly caustic reflections on the greatness from which the American experiment had fallen.

The squad came back to life this year in Carlisle vs. Army, by SI staff writer Lars Anderson, and The Real All Americans, by Sally Jenkins.

He is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to the public - radio program This American Life.

Tomorrow's films (free, but first come, first served) are Paris Noir, a documentary on black American poets, writers, artists and others living in Paris in the 1920s and»30s, and When Voice Rise, a documentary on desegregation in 1950s Bermuda.

He is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to This American Life.

Jennifer van der Kwast is an American writer who has been living in the Netherlands for four years.

Writer and activist Bill McKibben talks to Scientific American's Mark Fischetti about his new book Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.

Themost vivid firsthand account of swarm behavior is surely that of LauraIngalls Wilder, the children's writer who chronicled the life of herfamily on the American frontier.

Below is a Q&A with Fosang by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's science writer, Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay, to find out about Fosang's research interests, career trajectory and life outside the laboratory.

Now I am a fan of all of these writers: their diets are big improvements over the Standard American Diet, and they have improved the lives of millions.

On the Martha Blog, Martha Stewart an American businesswoman, writer, and television personality shares an up - close and personal perspective of her life through blog posts, photos and Frequency about 6 posts per week.

* FREE The 4 - Hour Workweek: Escape 9 - 5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (2007) is a self - help book by Timothy Ferriss, an American writer, educational

This look at the brief life of troubled American poet Hart Crane is a real one - man show as its star James Franco also serves as writer, director, producer, and editor.

It has been argued that Jackson's performances in Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown served to sanction his writer - director's fetishizing of certain stereotypes pertaining to African - American movie characters — and also his co-opting of subcultural postures and attitudes well beyond his real - life experiences (if not, it goes without saying, his VHS collection).

The difference between American Splendor and Ghost World is that with two solitary figures in search of completion, there is the possibility for recognition of sameness — but with two figures (underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar and his wife Joyce Brabner (Hope Davis)-RRB- who have found in one another a sympathetic orbit, a partner in life and lo, with a child dropped willy - nilly into their midst to tie up loose ends, there is instead a sort of alien, island of lost toys exclusion that makes for a further alienation of the very alienated audience to which Pekar's comic so appealed and, eventually, took for granted and pandered.

August 10, 2012 • Writer David Rakoff, who has died at the age of 47, left both writing and audio appearances on shows like This American Life that illustrate a worldview that was dark, but deeply human.

Adapting David Finkel's bestselling book, American Sniper writer Jason Hall is also making his directorial debut with the drama, which follows various troops looking to make the transition from the chaos and bonds of war to the relative calm and connections of family life.

An Ordinary Man North American Premiere Writer / Director: Brad Silberling Starring: Ben Kingsley, Hera Hilmar, Peter Serafinowicz Logline: The life of a fugitive war criminal takes a turn for the unexpected in An Ordinary Man.

Based on the true story of the film's writers (and real - life couple), Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, this modern culture clash shows how Pakistan - born Kumail and his American girlfriend, Emily, have to overcome the expectations of his family and their 1,400 - year - old traditions.

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.

«I remember my first conversation [with writer Steve Conrad] where he said, «Every American male yearns to be on the cover of a Wheaties box,»» says John Goldwyn, the producer of «The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty.»

This week, he trades in the orange overalls and vests of a «hot shot» firefighter for the combat fatigues of a U.S. soldier, Sergeant Adam Schumann, returning from the Iraqi War in 2007 in writer - director Jason Hall's (American Sniper) earnest, authentically told, compassionate Thank You For Your Service, another «based on a true story» throwback war - at - home drama elevated — just like last week's Only the Brave — by Teller's unfailing, unflagging commitment to bringing the inner turmoil, turbulence, and torment of his character to complex, contradictory life.

Beginning with Bobby: The Making of An American Epic, this «making of» documentary fills in the details of how writer / director Emilio Estevez was inspired to create the huge cast of fictional characters based on real life events and situations.

Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper reunite with «American Hustle» writer - director David O Russell for this sharp, enjoyable real - life melodrama

We talked to the trenchant and kind American writer / director, Whit Stillman (Damsels in Distress), at the conclusion of our inaugural Live Directors Series.

John Carpenter is an American movie writer, music composer, and director of numerous groundbreaking classic films, including «Assault on Precinct 13», «Halloween», «The Fog», «Escape From New York», «The Thing», «Christine», «Starman», «Big Trouble in Little China», «Prince of Darkness», «They Live», «In the Mouth of Madness», «Vampires», «Escape From L.A.», «Ghosts of Mars», «The Ward», and many more.

In the grand tradition of «Night of the Living Dead» comes a film, from writer - director Jordan Peele, that functions as both frightening horror thriller and racially conscious satire that confronts the dark underbelly of American racism in its more insidious, less obvious forms.

Brought to the screen by writer Gary Spinelli and director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity), American Made is based on the life of Barry Seal.

Orville Willis Forte IV, better known as Will Forte (born June 17, 1970), is an American actor, comedian and writer best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 2002 — 2010 and for starring in the SNL spin - off film MacGruber.

Director Joseph Kosinski («Tron: Legacy,» «Oblivion») and writers Ken Nolan («Black Hawk Down») and Eric Warren Singer («American Hustle») set up characters we think we know, from Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin), the tough - but - fair superintendent who always seems to know more about fires than everyone around him; to Amanda (Jennifer Connelly), Eric's veterinarian wife who rescues horses and frets about her husband's safety while he's putting himself in harm's way; to Brendan (Miles Teller), a drug - using screw - up who tries to get his life together when a recent fling results in his becoming a dad.

Stanley Tucci's Final Portrait hones in on an intriguing incident late in Giacometti's life, when he asked the American writer James Lord to sit for a painting.

The film is adapted, very well, by Robert Carlock from a memoir written by the real - life American TV reporter Kim Barker, but given that Carlock is one of the main writers on 30 Rock and Fey is the star, this could easily have descended into broad farce — a sort of Liz Lemon (the screenwriter she plays in 30 Rock) Goes To War, if you like.

Certainly not the first filmmakers to offer a story of the American dream, director Michael Gracey and writer Jenny Bicks spin the life and achievements of P. T. Barnum into an over-produced, family - oriented spectacle that entertains but fails to impress.

«A Quiet Passion» is a unique insight into Dickinson's life and obsessions, and follows the writer from her schoolgirl days in Amherst, Massachusetts to her years writing in near - total isolation, where she produced over a thousand poems that are now regarded as the finest and most inventive in American literature.

Here the aspiring writer bumps into a story idea: She takes a look at life in the white community from the perspective of the families» African - American maids (two of whom are played by Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer).

Writer - director Adam McKay has been one of the most forward - thinking faces of American comedy for most of his adult life.

The Long Form Original nominees are the writers of FX's «American Horror Story: Cult» and «Feud: Bette and Joan,» Lifetime's «Flint,» Netflix's «Godless,» and Discovery Channel's «Manhunt: Unabomber»; Long Form Adapted nominees include HBO's «Big Little Lies,» FX's «Fargo,» and HBO's «The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks» and «The Wizard of Lies.»

The American Film Institute announced Friday that comedian - actor - musician - writer - banjo player Steve Martin is the recipient of the 43rd AFI Life Achievement Award.

From The Graduate and Catch - 22 to Saturday Night Live and Get Smart, iconic comedic and distinctly American writer, director, and actor Buck Henry recalls his long and storied career in Hollywood.

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.

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History and The Freeman Institute have information about writer and editor Carter G. Woodson.