Sentences with phrase «as novelist david»

As novelist David Lodge observes about the satisfactions provided by solved mystery stories in both fiction and in law: «A solved mystery is ultimately reassuring to readers, asserting the triumph of reason over instinct, of order over anarchy.»

And yet, as novelist David Treuer wryly observes in his sobering yet quietly redemptive book, Rez Life, in spite of how involved Indians have been in America's business, most people will go a lifetime without ever knowing an Indian or spending time on an...

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Sadly, the distinguished historian David Cesarani did not live to see his last book published, Disraeli The Novel Politician (Yale # 15) in which he considers Disraeli's Jewishness and what if anything it meant to his life as a novelist and politician.

The story (adapted by Alexander Jacobs, David Newhouse, Rafe Newhouse) is based on «The Hunter» from acclaimed crime novelist Donald Westlake (as Richard Stark).

Released as both a two - part TV mini-series and a truncated theatrical feature in 1979, Tobe Hooper's atmospheric Salem's Lot features an uncharacteristically convincing David Soul as a popular novelist embroiled in a small town conspiracy involving the contents of a mysterious coffin and an ancient vampiric spirit.

It doesn't because this element is used as a cheap plot gimmick, as a means for the novelist to find a satisfactory ending to his new book, an ending his publisher (David Paymer) demands be «bulletproof.»

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.

The list includes «Colette,» a historical biopic with Keira Knightley as the famed French novelist; «Monsters and Men,» a drama about police brutality that features John David Washington (son of Denzel); «Wildlife,» a coming - of - age story that marks the directorial debut of Paul Dano; and «The Catcher Was a Spy,» a historical thriller with Paul Rudd.

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.

«David Copperfield» is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy & impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist.

Ballantine Books was established in 1952 by the legendary paperback pioneers Ian and Betty Ballantine, publishing original works of both award - winning fiction and nonfiction in both hardcover and paperback formats under one umbrella, including such bestselling novelists as Jodi Picoult, Emily Giffin, Debbie Macomber, Jonathan Kellerman, Tess Gerritsen, Justin Cronin, Jeff Shaara, Alison Weir, and Paula McLain as well as bestselling nonfiction authors including Bob Harper, David Zinczenko, and Kelly Corrigan.

As well as a headline performance by German art - rock group Kraftwerk, fresh from their residency at Tate Modern, this year's Latitude hosts a number of alternative visual artists, including David Shrigley, photographer Mitch Jenkins and graphic novelist Alan MoorAs well as a headline performance by German art - rock group Kraftwerk, fresh from their residency at Tate Modern, this year's Latitude hosts a number of alternative visual artists, including David Shrigley, photographer Mitch Jenkins and graphic novelist Alan Mooras a headline performance by German art - rock group Kraftwerk, fresh from their residency at Tate Modern, this year's Latitude hosts a number of alternative visual artists, including David Shrigley, photographer Mitch Jenkins and graphic novelist Alan Moore.

The Globe and Mail had an interesting article recently («The judge who writes like a paperback novelist»)(via How Appealing) about Ontario Court of Appeal Judge David Watt, who has become a bit of a sensation in criminal law circles as the result of a stark transformation in the way he writes his decisions.

As Boston Globe writer David Mehegan reports today in his article, His Cases Have Become Mysterious: Lawyer - turned - novelist digs up dirt in old Boston, Landay, 43, went straight from his job as an assistant district attorney to a career as a novelisAs Boston Globe writer David Mehegan reports today in his article, His Cases Have Become Mysterious: Lawyer - turned - novelist digs up dirt in old Boston, Landay, 43, went straight from his job as an assistant district attorney to a career as a novelisas an assistant district attorney to a career as a novelisas a novelist.

Garner helped out by recollecting SNOOT, an acronym for «Syntax Nudniks of Our Time,» described by the novelist David Foster Wallace as «this reviewer's nuclear family's nickname à clef for a really extreme usage fanatic, the sort of person whose idea of Sunday fun is to hunt for mistakes in the very prose of Safire's column.»