Sentences with phrase «working as a novelist»

I loved what [author] Jeff [VanderMeer] had done but one thing I know... Years ago I used to work as a novelist and I know that novels & films are independent of each other.

Working as a novelist taught me a particular kind of patience.

Not exact matches

With that preparation, Professor Richard propounded the first question, the one Percy had to contend with from his early recognition as novelist to the end: «Do you consider yourself as a Southern writer and, if so, what features of your work do you regard as peculiarly Southern?»

However, in the work of William Faulkner, perhaps the only 20th - century novelist worthy of standing beside Hawthorne and Melville, the southern sense of defeat has been deepened into a genuine apprehension of tragedy, not so much by dwelling on the actual military defeat as by an unsparing delineation of the triumph of rapacious commercial values that followed it.

Ralph C. Wood regards John Updike as a writer to be «reckoned with theologically» though he finds in the novelist's recent memoirs — and in his work as a whole — more «justification by sin» then justification by faith.

Her work as an academic philosopher has dealt extensively with the figures and issues of that period, and in her discussions of fiction she has expressed particular admiration for the great novelists of that century, including Jane Austen, George Eliot and Leo Tolstoy.

Even artists who do things that are clearly and distinctively Christian, such as the novelist Walker Percy, are frequently rejected as «unsuitable» by some Christians because their works do not toe to one or another line of orthodoxy.

He regarded Muggeridge as a «failed novelist,» whose foray into intelligence work during the war permitted him to escape the unhappiness of family life for a life «where things were deceptive and dishonest by definition.»

But as we have learned, wherever there is metaphor the demon of nonlinearity can go to work, arousing the usual fears about unpredictability and loss of rational control, as we see in people like Francis Bacon, John Locke, the French critic - novelist Alain Robbe - Grillet, and the late Paul de Man.

Social historians proceed in the same way as 19th - century novelists, and both differ from historians who base their work on the social sciences.

Famed former Manhattan sex - crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein, a best - selling novelist who in 2007 wrote a Vanity Fair column about wanting to make a movie with Weinstein, worked as a consultant for the mogul after he was accused of groping the Italian model.

Benjamin Franklin and most of the great novelists such as Charles Dickens had their works first published in magazines.

So again, going back to the literary metaphor, he may have had a following based on his work as a cinematic novelist (his series Crime Story was also extremely dense) and this following, of which you may or may not be part of, isn't interested in his newfound exploration of cinematic poetry.

This quaint horror anthology is loosely based on the works of horror novelist R. Chetwynd - Hayes — who is portrayed by John Carradine as an active participant in his own tales.

Jean - Claude Carrière has worked as a cartoonist, novelist, actor, and director, but more importantly established himself as one of France's foremost screenwriters.

Based on the work of celebrated novelist H.P. Lovecraft, this film showcases Vincent Price, playing dual roles as both a warlock burnt in 1765 and his descendant, who arrives to take up residence at the family estate generations later.

Shot partly as a fantasy and partly as a video - chat, «A Summer In Ohio» finds Kendrick's aspiring Broadway star Cathy working in a theater camp, and telling her novelist husband, Jamie, back in New York all about «slowly going batty / 40 miles east of Cincinnati.»

In an interview Rudolph helpfully singled out an Altman film he worked on as assistant director, The Long Goodbye — a much better film, one that can accommodate in its gallery of gargoyles a tragic figure like Sterling Hayden's alcoholic novelist as well as a nightmarishly comic one like Mark Rydell's Jewish gangster.

Many film fans are familiar with the work of the late novelist Patricia Highsmith, whether they know it or not, as her books have been adapted into several films including

Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer genius.

Prior to working at the Film Agency for Wales, Keith was Head of Development at Dan Films, responsible for a slate of projects intended for cinema release including Christopher Smith's Triangle as well as working with acclaimed novelists Tom Rob Smith and Jeff Noon on feature projects.

Christmas» script is by Susan Coyne, the co-creator of Slings And Arrows, and it follows the interpretation of Scrooge as Dickens» alter - ego, his miserliness a caricature of the novelist's preoccupation with money, which began when his opportunistic father, John Dickens (Jonathan Pryce), was sent to debtors» prison, forcing a 12 - year - old Charles to quit school and go to work at a shoe polish factory.

«Reel Chicago» will include Raul Zaritsky and Linda Williams's Maxwell Street Blues (1981), about the musicians who shaped the city's electric - blues sound as they performed in the legendary open - air market; Tom Palazzolo's Chicago, which collects key short works by the veteran city chronicler; The Films of Gordon Weisenborn, a quartet of half - hour educational films by the little - known director; and The People vs. Paul Crump (1965), a profile of the death - row inmate turned novelist that was one of the first films by director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection).

Compared with the shivers of self - loathing that animate «Queen of Earth» and «Listen Up Philip» (2014), his brutal comic portrait of an insufferably arrogant New York novelist, this exquisitely textured ensemble portrait is a gentler, more forgiving piece of work, not least because the filmmaker's jabs — and his sympathies, such as they are — feel more evenly distributed.

And Kevin Connolly («Entourage») is the would - be novelist, working as a hack investigative gossip for Stallone's «Daily Contact» website.

by Walter Chaw My opinion of Dave Barry is that as an essayist, he's no P.J. O'Rourke, and as a novelist, he's no Carl Hiaasen — anyone who agrees to have Harry Anderson play him on a weekly sitcom is begging to have his work re-evaluated through that prism.

The professor canonizes the witty, dialogue - driven, and dissipated Brit novelist Ronald Firbank as an overlooked influence on later writers like Evelyn Waugh despite his ostensibly minor imprint, rescuing him from the received wisdom that his work might be «too unserious in his unseriousness» to last.

Even the aspiring novelist (Joe Lo Truglio), who is also the resident nudist — as we are forced to see full frontal just because the writing duo of David Main & Ken Marino (Role Models) thought it would be naturally funny — works hard (no pun intended) to earn a laugh with sub-par material.

One doesn't need to dig deep into his body of work to see that the late novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace had sincere ambivalence about mass media — his much - heralded 1,079 - page novel, Infinite Jest, features a science fiction conceit where a lethal videotape known as «The Entertainment» is so addictive, its viewers lose interest in anything other than endless repeat viewings of the film.

Gist: A funny and complex story about a newly single father trying to take care of 6 year old twin girls, reignite his dating life, navigate his co-parenting relationship with his ex and continue work as a graphic novelist.

As the Italian novelist Elena Ferrante said, «There is no work... that is not the fruit of tradition.»

Her work as a journalist taught her to be an observant person and disciplined enough to write every day — good training for a novelist.

Russell was our lead interview for February, as Emma Donoghue was back in October, and though at first the two novelists and their works seem to have little else in common, they've both managed to create believable young characters living in extreme situations.

Like Courtney Milan, about whom I've posted before as one of the small but growing set of romance novelists whose work I REALLY like.

Writers of commercial fiction who wish to soar out of category, as well as literary novelists who want to learn how to make powerful story principles work for them, will find the Breakout Novel Intensive 2.0 an idea - packed and career enriching experience.

Those are the blues that can overwhelm the unpublished / underpublished novelist as we slog away, year after year, with nothing to show for our life's work but a mini-Kilimanjaro of rejection slips.

We tend to think of William Styron as a novelist — and rightly so, given the enduring power of such works at The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie's Choice.

Other news from the Kobo and Aqufadas collaboration is still pending, as the group continues to work on a self - publishing platform for children's book authors and graphic novelists; the first step for Kobo was to develop a children's bookstore to sell that content, and that is now viable.

He spent the years 1962 — 65 in England, working as a computer programmer while doing research for a thesis on the English novelist Ford Madox Ford.

Breathtakingly suspenseful, Killing Time unfolds as the work of a master novelist.

Before this book, Atkinson was known mostly as a crime novelist, but this is an absolutely brilliant work of literature.

As the author of the highly successful John Milton thrillers, Mark has become one of the most successful indie novelists working today — in large part thanks to his keen understanding of book marketing and Facebook Advertising in particular.

It became clear, though, that I could earn a good living as a journalist where I was practically starving as a novelist, so I took a staff job at forbes.com in 1997, after working at Wired.com for a four months before that.

The younger brother of novelist R. K. Narayan, Laxman got his start illustrating his brother's work as well as doing drawings for local newspapers.

If you as a novelist can add detail or evoke thematic feelings through an epiphany, wouldn't the only certain harm come from not trying to to make it work?

As Pulitzer Prize ‑ winner Robert Olen Butler (a novelist who also writes flash fiction) has said, «Fiction is the art form of human yearning, no matter how long or short that work of fiction is.»

I think of myself as a literary novelist although I'm one of those unfortunates whose work isn't quite so easily classified although my most recent novel, Milligan and Murphy, which was inspired by the writings of Samuel Beckett, is most definitively a literary novel.

In the bestselling tradition of novelists such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Marlon James, this urgent, poetic, and essential work announces the arrival of a fresh and talented voice in international fiction.

Instead of becoming a working girl, she is taken in by Dr. Damien Cole as a maid - of - all - work in debut novelist Eve Silver's beguiling Gothic tale, Dark Desires...

«A strange and beautiful work, this masterful narrative proves that Atwood can do anything as a novelist,» says Hale, who knows her literary fiction (in addition to having an MFA, she's been writing this column for nearly 10 years!).