Sentences with phrase «as memoir writing»

Not exact matches

Written by broadcast journalist Katy Tur, the New York Times - bestseller is part - memoir, part - recap of her life on the road as the NBC News pool reporter for the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential race.

In the finals, as Jackson writes in his new memoir, Eleven Rings, «Michael was reverting to his old habit of trying to win games by himself.»

In her memoir, she writes at length about what happened in her family and in her backyard, and even about Satan himself, as she tries to make sense of her experience.

(Can't give you the details as I'm writing a memoir and don't wish to give the good bits away in case it gets published) Even though I have doubted all the other stuff along the years — promises etc that didn't come to pass, despite my diligent prayer and obedience, I still cry out to «something out there» because I am spirit in a human body, and know that I am on a journey that has to mean more than simply this earthly plain.

I remembered Brennan Manning — the man who has translated the love of God in a way that I could receive it more than probably any other writer — was addicted to alcohol and I re-read up one of his last books before he died: «All is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir» where he vulnerably writes about what this battle has cost him, even as he experienced the unending and unconditional love of God in the midst of it, how he experienced regret and pain and loss alongside of the love and tenderness of God in this dependency.

Given the theological cast of her writing, one might expect to find in her memoir a portrait of the artist as a young Jonathan Edwards — someone who (shortly before he went off to college) observed the curiosities of the flying spider, analyzed the optics of the rainbow, and then celebrated the glory of the creator as revealed in the natural creation.

When Jason Boyett and I realized we had both written memoir - style books about our experiences with doubt to be published byZondervan in the spring / summer of 2010, we decided to team up rather than compete — an arrangement that has probably worked more in my favor than his, seeing as Jason's already published a shelf - full of books and has earned a reputation for being one of the industry's most thoughtful and humorous voices.

It's unlike any other I've written, for in addition to memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay, all aimed at engaging your questions, doubts, ideas, and imagination as you wrestle with the Bible along with me.

So as I'm writing my next book — a memoir about church — I started reminiscing about youth group and all the crazy games we used to play, chief among them Chubby Bunny — a game in which several «volunteers» cram as many marshmallows as they can into their mouths and attempt to say «chubby bunny» without throwing up or choking to death.

Memoir is a complicated and very personal genre, as you acknowledge, and I have found myself unable to write a standard review of it.

As the book begins, Simonini is writing his memoir, after a chance encounter with the young Sigmund Freud, in an attempt to recover from a case of partial amnesia and, as it turns out, split personalitAs the book begins, Simonini is writing his memoir, after a chance encounter with the young Sigmund Freud, in an attempt to recover from a case of partial amnesia and, as it turns out, split personalitas it turns out, split personality.

As he writes in an excerpt from a memoir recently published in The New Yorker, he began to be haunted by the thought of «the ancientness of the Mass — that it and its antecedents very likely go farther back into the human past than any other existing ceremony....

It was my conviction that, as no professional biographer in his right mind would touch Whitehead, someone who knew him and his work should write as much about this great man's life as the scanty materials allowed; not a memoir, mind you, but an objective partial biography.

Workshop participants will explore food writing with an in - depth look at recipe development, food as memoir / essay, creative writing & food journalism, and touch on podcasting / broadcasting as well.

Expat Adoptee Mommy The author of a memoir about about her adoption and reunion writes about her experiences as an ex-pat mother.

Ri Yong - guk, a defector from the North who served on a security detail for Kim Jong - il, wrote in a 2013 memoir that as many as six different layers of security guards protected the leader on trips to the countryside to inspect military units, plants or farms.

No former cabinet minister has written a memoir that comprehensively deals with Iraq and Afghanistan, and more general memoirs or political histories, such as Anthony Seldon and Guy Lodge's Brown at 10, only discuss Afghanistan in passing.

In his capacity as first assistant counsel to the governor, incoming JCOPE Executive director Seth Agata wrote a letter in December 2012 to JCOPE's then - executive director (and another former Cuomo aide) Ellen Biben, seeking approval for Cuomo to write a memoir, «All Things Possible.»

Seth Agata, the new and third head of the commission, once served as Cuomo's counsel, where he wrote to JCOPE to ask for clearance for Cuomo to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars to write a memoir for a company that has business before the state.

As Cuomo's first assistant counsel, Agata wrote a December 2012 letter to the panel seeking approval for Cuomo to write a memoir, «All Things Possible.»

Ms. Calcaterra, 46, now working for Governor Andrew Cuomo as executive director of a state commission investigating public corruption, said she worked on the book for several years and even took memoir - writing classes in New York City.

A memoir would have been perhaps diffi cult for him to write as it would have required lengthy self - analysis, not least about his unhappy childhood.

Yet, given the chance to write a warts - and - all - memoir of her time in cabinet, she has instead produced a densely argued book on British Muslims and how they are positioned as the latest «enemy within».

In his memoir, he wrote about camping on this property with his young family as their jungle home was built.

One day, after struggling for years with ill health, she wandered out to an abandoned parking lot and, as she wrote in her memoir Why Suffer?

If I'd gone to war at the age of eighteen and come home without firing a shot, I suspect I'd have written something as vapid, grandiose, and self - conscious as Anthony Swofford's memoir Jarhead, the story of a ground war that never really materialized (and wouldn't until the son of that era's president decided to bring to climax what daddy'd coaxed to erection).

Written by Sorkin, adapted from Molly Bloom's memoir as the mastermind of the world's most exclusive poker game, unsurprisingly Molly's Game is mostly a series of flashy monologues characters spit at each other like they're in a particularly classy rap battle.

Echoing his witty writing style, Bill Bryson's memoir of his trek up the Appalachian Trail is adapted as a gently amusing comedy that combines big landscapes with sharp observational humour.

Touted as a mix of memoir and manifesto, reading McGowan's long - form writing should prove as strong and engaging as her Twitter account.

Life Itself, based upon the 2012 memoir of the same title written by legendary film critic Roger Ebert, was also honored today as Best Documentary by the National Board of Review.

Written by Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare At Goats) and Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Men Who Stare At Goats), Frank is a fictional story based on the memoir by Jon Ronson and loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom (the persona of cult musician and comedy legend Chris Sievey), as well as outsider musicians like Daniel Johnston, Captain Beefheart and Harry Partch.

Starring Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, whose memoir the film is based upon and written by Jason Hall, American Sniper charts his four tours of duty in Iraq after September 11th where he became the most deadly sniper in military history.

«It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives,» Northrup wrote in his memoir.

In the My World of Flops piece on Rachel Dolezal's fascinatingly, poignantly, hilariously misguided memoir, I wrote about how Dolezal casually mentions that because of her Dickensian upbringing as the abused and overworked progeny of scheming, racist parents she has no sense of humor.

In her 2011 memoir, A Chance to Make History, Kopp wrote that «education can trump poverty» as long as a teacher accepts her responsibility as the «key variable» driving measurable student outcomes.

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This just in... literally as I'm putting this post to bed: Sue William Silverman — author of the memoirs Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You and Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction — reports that her writing craft book Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir has received an Honorable Mention in ForeWord Review's Book - of - the - Year award competition in the category writing.

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A reviewer from the Chicago Tribune referenced Bruce Springsteen's book, «Born To Run» as an autobiography, but according to Bruce, his writing is a memoir.

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She includes two memoir writing prompts as well.

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The fact that 43 - year - old Byars is giving a phone interview is nothing short of a miracle, given that he nearly died not once, but twice — in a pair of events that he chronicles in the intensely powerful memoir Will & I. Not much has been easy since, he writes: «Actions as simple as brushing my teeth, shaving and showering all begin with the question «How am I going to do this?»»

Jennifer Niven has written four novels for adults - American Blonde, Becoming Clementine, Velva Jean Learns to Fly, and Velva Jean Learns to Drive - as well as three nonfiction books - The Ice Master, Ada Blackjack, and The Aqua - Net Diaries, a memoir about her high school experiences.

Few write as lovingly about the joys of French food and culture as Julia Child, and her posthumous memoir, My Life in France, is excellent reading.