Sentences with phrase «at fiction alone»

Not exact matches

Having avoided contemporary fiction for most of my adult life, I at first could not believe what English prose had been reduced to, let alone that any reader could find the book's substantive claims remotely plausible.

She produced the short film «Alone» (NYT OpDoc) which won the Short Film Jury Award: Non Fiction at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

In the realm of science - fiction, exploring our own socio - political environment through the lens of a foreign or futuristic society is commonplace; however, exploring merely human nature and philosophical questions of life is less common, at least as a stand - alone theme.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

I do think you have a problem with your plan, though, because the cost of printing your book via POD is going be at least $ 7.00, and since there's a real limit to what readers will pay for fiction, this alone will eliminate virtually all your profit after you discount the book for retail.

As far as the ongoing need or demand for traditional publishers, it's tough to imagine their demise when it comes to non-commodity authors, though I do worry that if publishers have been playing at the commodity publishing game all along (which they have), and their existing corporate parents expect growing profits, should we expect their fortunes to fall if / when the genre fiction authors increasingly go - it - alone -LCB--LCB- 3 -RCB--RCB--LSB-[3]-RSB- I've also written about my concern that traditional publishers may not evolve to offer sufficient value for authors.

I'm on record as predicting the flat - text e-book era has an outside range of five years, at least for fiction — specialized non-fiction and manuals will continue to be valuable for their content alone.