Sentences with phrase «about your novel in»

While the tale ordinarily contains all that the teller intends, it is sometimes the case that the teller speaks in a non-fictional context as to the meaning of his work, as Percy did about this novel in his Ingersoll Prize acceptance speech.

After a quick mental check of the books I've been reading recently, and thinking about novels in general, I decided: suspense.

My hope is that readers who loved Little Women will take pleasure in this story, will think about that novel in a new way, and will consider, maybe for the first time, the real woman who wrote it.

Linda Spalding wrote a wonderful essay about this novel in the anthology, Lost Classics.

Read more about the novel in this review.

Thinking too much about your novel in a critical fashion always blocks you.

It's difficult to talk about this novel in terms of plot as it's nearly impossible to do so without revealing spoilers.

Not exact matches

Business Insider previously reported that Amazon's CEO learns more from fiction than non-fiction, and this novel about a butler in post-war England is one of his favorites.

One month he's giving 50 of his friends a new novel he adores, the next he's suggesting everyone get out the tissues and check out a heartbreaker of a memoir, then a bit later he's back on his blog enthusing about a deep dive into eviction in America.

Some of the biggest threats experts are thinking about in 2018 range from the familiar to more novel cybersecurity considerations.

He is the author of two books: BIG LIKE: CASCADE INTO AN ODYSSEY, a travel memoir of an almost regular guy who gets totally unstuck in Tokyo — a «funny as hell non-fiction book about wanderlust and traveling abroad»; and TESTOSTERONE PIT, a short, edgy, humorous novel about car salesmen, their customers, managers, and shenanigans at a large Ford dealership.

Andy Weir, author of «The Martian», a realistic tale of survival in space, is about to release his second and highly anticipated novel, «Artemis».

But aviation insiders are quick to point out something about Rutan that is often overlooked in the excitement over his novel prototype vehicles: Rutan has yet to turn one of his experimental vehicles into a successful commercial aircraft.

Important lessons about life and business are there for the learning in the great novels they made you read as a kid.

In delivering a business pitch about a novel invention, be sure to bolster your presentation with facts and know your audience.

«In Cold Blood» is Truman Capote's novel about the murders in 1959 of farmer Herbert Clutter, his wife and two of their childreIn Cold Blood» is Truman Capote's novel about the murders in 1959 of farmer Herbert Clutter, his wife and two of their childrein 1959 of farmer Herbert Clutter, his wife and two of their children.

Harrison's first novel, «Wolf: A Fake Memoir,» came out in 1971 and he followed two years later with a work of fiction about the ecology, «A Good Day to Die.»

The company allegedly runs an internal spying program and even prohibits employees from writing a novel about working in Silicon Valley.

What he did: After searching in vain for a publisher for Boob Tube, a satirical novel about the soap opera industry that he penned with his wife, tech entrepreneur Mark Coker, 47, took matters into his own hands.

I'm talking about genuinely figuring out the right thing to do, in a novel situation that requires urgent action.

Luckie wrote a novel called DO U, about men at a fictional black college, and now runs a site called Today in Black Twitter.

Though it's kind of fun to feel like I'm a character in a William Gibson novel when we talk about stuff like that.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Jean is passionate about applying artificial intelligence to novel and high - impact problems in the real world, as well as improving the workplace through better enterprise technology.

The board's alleged failure: refusing to negotiate with Valeant Pharmaceuticals about its unsolicited bid to take over Allergan — a bid that Ackman himself had helped engineer in a novel alliance between a hedge fund and a would - be acquirer.

It's very much about breasting the tides of emotion, too, which is where the novels and poetry come in.

You will find out in this article about this binary options program with a very novel idea.

«This is the first novel I have read about finance that is a true portrait of the humanity, the pain and the suffering and the triumphs and the sheer weirdness of what it's like to work in the industry.»

And then I have this novel ratting around in the back of my head and it's about sex and abstinence and Christianity and I want to call it Pure.

Folman's adaptation attempts to update some of the themes of Lem's book to fit our modern obsession with entertainment, but the original novel is more about the use of psychotropic drugs to create a dream world in which everyone thinks himself happy.

He was doing a book tour, and we were hanging out and talking about his graphic novels, and I had told him that I was interesting in maybe collaborating with him on something if he had any pages he didn't know what to do with to send them over to me, and I would try to write some songs or something.

For much of his career, he wrote bitterly satirical novels about well - off Londoners; even when the prospect of nuclear catastrophe arises, as it does in London Fields (1989), Amis seems to treat «The Crisis,» the coming «horrorday,» primarily as a vehicle for revealing the largely unpleasant traits of his handful of main characters.

The Mailer who can write a sentence like «his eyes were blue like the faded blue of the sky when the sky is white» is about as far as is humanly possible from the Mailer whose political reporting in the early 1960s remains irresistible long after its subjects have faded» and reestablished his literary reputation that had begun to fade with the critical and popular questioning of the novels that followed The Naked and the Dead.

One sees this most clearly in Sword of Honour, his novel about one man's disillusionment while fighting World War II.

• Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Violins of Saint - Jacques: No one in the twentieth century wrote more magnificent English, or prose of a purer purple; but, while his travel memoirs are now more widely appreciated than ever, his only novel (or novella, really) tends to be overlooked — a deftly constructed, economically proportioned, perfectly satisfying little tale about the small twilight world of a fictional French Caribbean island on its last day.

• W. H. Mallock, The New Republic: It defies reason that a professional economist should have written one of the most brilliant satires of the nineteenth century (it appeared in 1877); a conversation novel, in the manner of Thomas Love Peacock, and just about as ingenious as any of his; a grand and ungracious burlesque of the Oxonian intellectuals and writers of the time, many of them Mallock's friends.

Thus far I have talked about metamorphosis only in the simple case of a single antecedent appearing as an element in the constitution of a single novel event.

Based on the novel by Madeleine L'Engle published in 1962, Disney retells the story in its upcoming fantasy epic about Meg, an ordinary teengager who's whisked on a cosmic adventure.

Maine's eloquent and vivid novel is finally about its own business, not Scripture's, but the two are scarcely extricable, and we read in part to see how, and how successfully, the strong - willed son will pull away.

According to reports, he's consulting the book as he prepares to play a Jesuit in a film adaptation of «Silence,» a novel about Catholic missionaries in Japan.

What about the noble enterprise of Ankerwycke, the publishing arm of the American Bar Association, which in 2015 began reissuing Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason novels in order?

Flannery O'Connor's novel The Violent Bear It Away does suggest a more satisfactory relation for human beings between the ordinary and the transcendent though it is, on the face of it, a very strange one indeed.19 Her novel is about a fourteen - year - old boy, Francis Tarwater, who, after the death of his great - uncle, a self - proclaimed prophet, goes to his uncle Rayber in order to fulfill the Lord's «call» that he, Tarwater, baptize Rayber's young idiot son.

Tarkington, who saw the effects of the industrial revolution in his neck of the woods in the late nineteenth century, used the novel to talk about the rise of new technology — in this case, the automobile — and the impact it would have on an idyllic life.

In a series of novels about life in a small town in Canada, Robertson Davies tells of the plight of Solomon Bridgetower, who is tyrannized by his invalid motheIn a series of novels about life in a small town in Canada, Robertson Davies tells of the plight of Solomon Bridgetower, who is tyrannized by his invalid mothein a small town in Canada, Robertson Davies tells of the plight of Solomon Bridgetower, who is tyrannized by his invalid mothein Canada, Robertson Davies tells of the plight of Solomon Bridgetower, who is tyrannized by his invalid mother.

The other possibility, the evocation of the transcendent good — grace, beauty, God — through the hard temporal realities of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the Glory, Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, C. S. Lewis» Out of the Silent Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)

Kingsolver's well - crafted novel brings us face to face with vital questions about what it means to proclaim the gospel in a country that is not our home.

Eve Tushnet's new novel Amends is about how love is better than sheer moral achievement and how, often, we have to journey through humiliation in order to get it.

It was nearly one year ago - in November 2009 - that Deepak Chopra first told me about his upcoming historical fiction novel about the Prophet Muhammad.

In Georges Bernanos's novel The Diary of a Country Priest, the priest talks about his congregation and his times:

By now, everyone who reads contemporary fiction will have heard of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel's acclaimed historical novels about Thomas Cromwell, the powerful advisor to Henry VIII who all but single - handedly disestablished the Catholic Church in England.