Sentences with phrase «living by fiction»

Partial Bibliography Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (1974, poems) Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974, nonfiction narrative) Holy the Firm (1977, nonfiction narrative) Living by Fiction (1982, non-fiction narrative) Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982, narrative essays) Encounters with Chinese Writers (1984, nonfiction narrative) An American Childhood (1987, memoir) The Writing Life (1989, non-fiction narrative) The Living (1992, novel) Mornings Like This (1995, poems) For the Time Being (1999, non-fiction narrative) The Maytrees (2007, fiction) The Abundance (2016)

While the apparent subject of Living by Fiction is thus modern fiction, Dillard seems more interested in the notion of fiction as a metaphor for culture and creativity.

This gives rise to Dillard's fundamental distinction in Living by Fiction: «The boundaries of sense are actually quite clear.

For me, one of the most troubling features of Living by Fiction is the way Dillard has taken her search for the bridge between self and nature down a long dead - end path, attempting to make the bridge out of the materials of one's own life.

Constructing a bridge to nature is the theme of Living by Fiction as well, although that might not be immediately apparent.

Living by Fiction is apparently a discussion of modern and postmodern fiction.

While the terror at the power and indifference of nature can be found in her other books, and is the foundation insight in Living by Fiction, the difference here is that she has claimed a place with others.

Not exact matches

Shortly thereafter, in 1992, just as Berners - Lee's World Wide Web had come to fruition, Neal Stephenson was inspired by the recent invention, which led to him publishing Snow Crash, a science - fiction novel that illustrated much of today's online life, including a virtual reality where people meet, do business, and play.

What it's about: The highest - grossing movie of all time — by far — «Avatar» is a science - fiction epic where a paraplegic marine inhabits another body to live on the moon of another planet and ingratiate himself into another population.

Ayn Rand's fiction and philosophy is not Christian by any stretch, but it is an expression of life - affirming, anti-tyrannical humanism.

The proprietor of the shop obviously has the right to offer this type of discount, but it's sad that in this backwards, demon - haunted country we're still treating a work of fiction supposedly handed down by an magical, omnipotent being as a framework for a moral life, rather than embracing an objective, secular view of morality.

But even propaganda's fictions are never so powerful as those by which people choose to live.

There are books of fiction which, by definition, are not literally true but which contain truths about life.

What I found, in addition to more wonderful reading, was a writer who had lived in many of the worlds evoked by his fiction.

Reinforcing the fact that this book is historical fiction and not a precise biography, my friend Dalia Mogahed (executive director of the Center for Muslim Studies at Gallup and member of President Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) rightfully noted in her review that this «is not a book recounting Muhammad's life, but a beautiful story inspired by it... There was editorial license and creativity, and while many of the words and events have been recorded in authentic sources, many have not...»

Just another fiction novel written by man that was transformed into a way of life.

She works as a freelance writer by day, poet and fiction writer by whenever life gives her a few free moments.

Despite the chaos and absurdity into which the story has fallen in fiction, we all try to make sense of our lives by seeing them as stories.

Either it's there or it isn't» If in John Updike's recent fiction adultery is presented as a «grace,» it is fidelity that has that inexplicable quality for Marianne — it is all gift, not calculated as her sex life by the brink has been with Johan.

Dubbed the Queen of Christian Fiction by Time Magazine, Karen has written more than 50 of her Life - Changing Fiction ™ titles and has nearly 20 million copies in print.

Everyone has personal favorites, and I would like to close with a few of the books I have enjoyed with my children: Noel Streatfield's books about families with dancing children, including Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes; Cotton in My Sack and Indian Captive, books of historical fiction by Lois Lenski; the hilarious picture book Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman; the gentle moral tale of Rose, «who didn't work any harder than she had to»; Seven Loaves of Bread, by Ferida Wolf; and the accurate depictions of family life in both Joanna Harrison's When Mom Turned into a Monster and Jean van Leeuwen's delightful Oliver and Amanda Pig stories.

Thus, we live not by nature but by fiction.

Life is what you make it... not what some book of fiction written and conceived by man, thousands of years ago, wants you to be.

Is is that same trait that allows you to believe in the invisible man in the sky and lead your life on a book of fiction written by humans about the invisible man in the sky.

Obviously this is a pretty broad question, and I don't care if these are primary sources, to collaborative works by modern historians, to historical fictions (as I'm sure much of this detail will be left to the imagination as not much evidence will remain), but I'm looking for how humans ran societies, and the issue they dealt with, on a day to day basis, because people live on a day to day basis, and don't, like historians, summarize a decade in a couple of pages of writing.

In other categories, Melvyn Bragg saw off competition from Nadine Dorries to take home Best Fiction by a Parliamentarian for Now is the Time, bringing the Peasants» Revolt of 1381 to life.

By coming from an unusual angle, SF can cast a sharper light on our lives, illuminating hidden corners far better than can mainstream fiction.

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She's Dating the Gangster is a 2014 Filipino teen romantic comedy - drama film based on the best Pop Fiction book of the same name originally published on A gangster's ex-wife has been spared jail after she told a court she had no idea her luxury life was funded by his drug money.

Based on the tell - all book «The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made» co-written by Sestero and Tom Bissell, «The Disaster Artist» is one of those stranger - than - fiction stories that very few people would believe if it hadn't actually happened, but here we are.

The filmmakers referred to the film more as fan fiction and it might not actually live up to the standard set by Mark Twain's stories, but it certainly is fun to see them try to tell a modernized story of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

Deja Vu lives up to its name a bit by being somewhat derivative of other recent science fiction thrillers, but it never cribs from any of them enough to merit labeling it as an out - and - out rip - off of any of them (there is a subtle 12 Monkeys vibe to the plot, even if the events are vastly different).

Machine Gun Preacher is directed by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, Stranger Than Fiction) and is based on the true story of an alcoholic ex-con who finds purpose in his life when he becomes a missionary and begins to build an orphanage for the children of South Sudan.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

The battle won and Germania subdued, Maximus wishes to retire to a life of farming in Spain, but reluctantly agrees to one last task on behalf of his infirmed emperor and father - figure Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris)- to restore the Roman Republic by overseeing the transfer of power to the Senate (a mostly benign body of legislators, simultaneously patrician and of the people, in this fiction anyway).

Unlike the nauseating fictions peddled by such» Have - yourself - a-happy-little-Holocaust «movies as Life Is Beautiful and Jakob the Liar, The Grey Zone is honest enough to deny the possibility of hope in Auschwitz.

Peggy Guggenheim - Art Addict Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland, written by Bernadine Colish, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, and John Northrup (USA)-- World Premiere, Documentary Bouncing between Europe and the US as often as she would between lovers, Peggy Guggenheim's life story was as swirling as the design of her uncle's museum, and reads more like fiction than any reality imaginable.

Imitation of Life (published on Parallax View here) A comprehensive interpretation of Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the masterpiece of the classic era in science — fiction cinema By Robert C. Cumbow plus

Arrival — Science Fiction, based on the 1998 short story «Story of Your Life» by Ted Chiang.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

It features several of the most popular and identifiable characters in modern fiction and, by most markers, fails to live up to even their pulpy roots.

The real Mannix was a «fixer» who made problems go away, though reports suggest his life and reputation were much darker than the fiction provided by the Coen Bros. here.

What many of us don't know is that the work of fiction was inspired by harrowing real - life events that took place aboard the whaling vessel Essex.

And even self - identifying fans may be dispirited by the degree to which the movie plays like a retread of innumerable other science - fiction thrillers, including the «Alien» movies, «Event Horizon,» «Sunshine,» «Europa Report» and last year's underappreciated «Life,» which died a premature death in theaters.

Out of the competition, the international highlights were El Clan (The Clan, Pablo Trapero), an effective if derivative Argentinian political drama / gangster film heavily influenced by Scorsese's Goodfellas; L'avenir (Things to Come, Mia Hansen - Løve), a fine if rather low - key drama helped enormously by Isabelle Huppert's lead performance; and, best of all, Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine, a truly disturbing mixture of fiction and documentary concerning the attempt to make a movie about the tragic suicide of Florida journalist Christine Chubbuck, who shot herself on live television back in 1974.

How I Live Now is an adaptation of the award - winning novel from 2004 by Meg Rosoff, which took home the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (awarded from the British newspaper, «The Guardian») and the Michael L. Printz Award (from the American Library Association) for young - adult literature.

ARRIVAL Paramount Pictures Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B Director: Denis Villeneuve Written by: Eric Heisserer based on Ted Chiang's short fiction «Story of Your Life» Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker Screened at: AMC Empire, NYC, 11/7/16 Opens: November 11, 2016

Life (2017) Genre: Science - Fiction / Thriller Directed by: Daniel Espinosa Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Olga Dihovichnaya, Ariyon Bakare, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ryan Reynolds Release Date: May 26, 2017

The new screenplay by Steve Conrad updates the story, changing Mitty's profession from over-protected pulp - fiction proofreader to a shy negatives - assets manager for Life magazine.

Yet the characters» lives are utterly defined and guided by science fiction elements (of the sort that could soon be science reality), and the kind of ethical questions implicitly explored are those of classic science fiction going back to Asimov and Wells, here told with a poignant humanism and thoughtfulness rarely found on the screen today.