Sentences with phrase «first things literary»

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Inside was the first edition of Woolly — the mattress company's new 96 - page branded print magazine / literary journal / coloring book thing.

Here, as a First Things web exclusive, literary journalist Cynthia Haven interviews Girard about his book.

Matthew Schmitz is literary editor of First Things.

The Ethical Ambiguities of Aging by gilbert meilaender eerdmans, 135 pages, $ 18 An esteemed Protestant ethicist (and First Things advisor and contributor) has here an extended essay that is at turns philosophical, literary, and biblical, and is throughout humane.

Gioia's latest essay, «The Catholic Writer Today,» published in the December 2013 issue of First Things, bears a striking resemblance to his Atlantic essay on poetry: Like its predecessor, it takes in a wide sweep of literary history, pointedly details a deplorable situation — «Catholicism currently enjoys almost no positive presence in the American fine arts» — and seeks to rally those who care to action.

And this is what I have found myself doing, at first almost by accident and now more self - consciously, both because I think that literary criticism can do some things that historical criticism can not do and because I find it to be of compelling interest.

In this installment of the First Things Podcast, join associate editor Julia Yost, literary editor Matthew Schmitz, and senior fellow Francesca Aran Murphy.

The Shrek franchise is built on a one - joke premise of sending up the literary history of fairytale literature, and though several recent productions have badly tried to do the same thing, this is the first and (by default) the best of the animated features to do so.

Things begin with a running start as Tracy crushes on the first boy she meets (Matthew Shear) and pines for acceptance to a pompous literary society, but it's not until Brooke (Greta Gerwig) enters the picture that the film takes flight.

«One of the first things I seek to do...» «There can sometimes be this tacit, even unconscious presumption that spoken word is lower on the literary hierarchy than that of other more «traditional» poetry.

One last thing: New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker once blogged that the best way to get a literary agent is to write three books — because first - time contracts with first - time authors typically cover three or more books.

Literary Agent First Five Pages — One of the things that frustrates authors most, is literary agents who only let writers submit a few pages of a manuscript, and then reject it.

It would be most interesting to see this same thing duplicated for other big series in the literary world, like Tolkien's work, Clive Cussler's books, the Wheel of Time, A Song of Ice and Fire,... Such a site would be useful to be able to buy the eBooks in a single place and have them added to an eBook company of your own choosing — if you even want that in the first place.

Before you rush off to show it to a literary agent (or a print - on - demand company) though, there's one thing you need to do first: you must have it professionally edited.

Nowadays, it has to be sent in through a literary agent, and the first thing they look at is the proposal letter.

The first thing you will have to do when looking to obtain a literary agent is to look some up.

However, if you are assigned to write a literary term paper, for example, the first thing you should remember is that your paper should be focused on a specific text.

I have had two novels published by a small independent publisher, as well as three poetry books by a separate independent poetry publisher, but it was my first novel, A Darker Moon, that prompted me to respond to your survey because, amongst other things, I consider it to be literary fiction (plus dark fiction and dark fantasy, plus psychological horror, plus mythic magic realism — it's very much cross-genre, but underlying it all is the literary fiction aspect of the book).

Amazon wants its name to be the first thing people think of when they think of books, a slippery slope for any large business but particularly this one since the company still lacks literary legitimacy.