Sentences with phrase «attempts at fiction»

A graduate of Stanford University with an MBA from Columbia, Beatriz spent several years in New York and London hiding her early attempts at fiction, first on company laptops as a corporate and communications strategy consultant, and then as an at - home producer of small persons.

Not exact matches

Indeed, the attempt at that rescue and restoration is the disturbing aspect of Percy's fiction, disturbing to the «liberal» mind in its common manifestation among us.

Like all of his books after Black Robe (his only attempt at historical fiction), it takes the form of a thriller, with a seductively relentless pace reminiscent of Simenon at his best.

no, I didn't say that's all there was — but much of what is left is not verifiable — some of it may very very well be true and some may be fiction; some may be a best attempt to retain truth where erroneous transmission kept the true story from being relayed forward; but how can it be verified at this point?

If our models are to lead us to ask, and seek answers for, new questions about the world, we must regard them as something more than «logical superfluities», «illicit attempts at explanation», «convenient fictions», or the like.

Instead, she has Cowperthwaite, wading into her first fiction feature and struggling with the limp noodle actress at the story's center attempting a realism she can not achieve.

This is a pity, because like the previous ambitious attempt at intelligent science fiction, namely Spielberg's A.I. — Artificial Intelligence, Solaris never quite works out and its failure is bound to doom us to more dumb special effects spectacles like Independence Day and its ilk instead...

It's when the film reaches Candie's plantation that it drops off considerably, largely due to less dramatic tension as well as an unconvincing performance by Samuel L. Jackson as Candie's trusted house slave (while the other actors at least make some attempt at period verisimilitude, Jackson sounds as contempo as he did in Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction).

10:35 am — IFC — Sleeper One of Woody Allen's early films, and a rare attempt at science fiction, has meek Miles Monroe cryogenically frozen only to wake in a totalitarian future as part of a radical movement to overthrow the government.

The reason I eventually tried my hand at fiction was because I got tired of waiting for the next Clancy or Brooks novel to come out so I attempted to write stories that would fill in the gaps between their books.

My attempt to restore this weekly feature on my blog was thwarted a few months into the year by a series of challenging, distressing, exhilarating, and generally overwhelming events — from editing a new speculative fiction anthology to the death of my mother - in - law, from a six - week home renovation to a partial roof collapse at my place of employment that caused 100 - hour work weeks, from caring for a sick bunny (he's better now, thankfully) to building a new website for one of the small - press publishers I work with.

I'm attempting to write and publish a short story a month this year, so I'm working on my April short story now (which is science fiction at the request of a few of my readers, but still has a dark slant to it).

We wish we could laugh at their pretensions of expanding the horizons of the genre, at their pathetic attempts to write tough - guy dialogue, but the sad fact is, most of these eggheads have pretty damn good taste when it comes to hard - boiled fiction.

When I started writing A Promise of Fire over five years ago now, there was a good chance this manuscript would end up like my other works of fiction: perhaps unfinished, never seen by anyone but me, definitely never presented to agents or editors and using up space on my hard drive in a folder with a misleading enough name that hopefully no one would ever open it and stumble upon my first (and sometimes hilarious) attempts at writing a novel.

You will find the answer at feralchildren.com which has collated a number of claims and attempts to separate fact from fiction.

This writing is at the opposite end of the scale to writing Flash Fiction which may be read in a flash but can take many attempts to whittle away the word count.

Ottessa's book Eileen was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, despite it being written as a desperate attempt at commercial fiction.

There were many early attempts at a science fiction tabletop RPG but none of them stuck until 1977's Traveller, created by Marc Miller and published by his company Game Designer's Workshop.

In / Visible brings together critical fictions looking at the» (almost) random paths» taken in attempts to circumscribe time, space, and history by artists including Marina Abramovic, Chantal Akerman, Lara Almarcegui, Monica Bonvicini, Marguerite Duras, Esther Ferrer, Andrea Fraser, Dora Garcia, Ann Veronica Janssens, David Lamelas, Teresa Margolles, Tania Mouraud, Karin Sander, Joëlle Tuerlinckx and Rémy Zaugg.

(a) worst intended attempt at legal humour; worst intended attempt at legal logic; worst intended attempt at legal math; worst intended attempt at legal fiction;... etc..