Sentences with phrase «author about the novel»

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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».

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.

There can be no doubt that the author of these words also had in mind the purpose of a novel, perhaps one that would help break the spell of current assumptions in order to surprise us with the complicated truth about ourselves — with more dreams than we have dared to dream in what passes for our philosophy.

But when the Rev. Paul F.M. Zahl read several of King's novels, he learned something new about the author: There's a lot of faith behind his fright.

Unsurprisingly, Churchill ended up befriending H.G.Wells who authored the novel about a British alien invasion, The War of the Worlds.

According the author, there is a lack of discussion about Whitehead's view that scientific laws state principles which are immanent in nature but which evolve concurrently with novel changes in the entities actually constituting the universe.

Loved this article from the author about how the novel relates to the world today, and this bit: «One of my rules was that I would not put any events into the book that had not already happened in what James Joyce called the «nightmare» of history, nor any technology not already available.

Webb, too, would earn honors in Vietnam, and he would become a best - selling author (a novel about the Vietnam War, Fields of Fire) and secretary of the Navy in the first Bush Administration.

Stanford student and author Kiley Roache comes to Kepler's to talk about her debut novel, Frat Girl, that centers around fraternity life, feminism, and finding your own truth.

Don't forget to check out new shareable content from SNA to help you positively promote your school meal program during SNEW, and all year; visit the School Lunch Hero Day website to learn more about the history of the holiday, and author Jarrett J. Krosoczka and his «Lunch Lady» series of graphic novels.

She is most recently the author of Pretty, a novel about a young lady named Bebe who goes from drugged - out stripper to cosmetology school then finds Christianity.

Author Emily Giffin talks about her novel Heart of the Matter and the stigma with stay at home moms

Three complete novels that, taken together, tell a single epic story, about an author whose life is shattered when violence and tragedy consume the people closest to him.

Amadi, before his demise was an author of plays and novels that are generally about African village life, customs, beliefs and religious practices, as they were before contact with the Western world.

The idea of featuring the justice secretary in novels and plays came from Australian author Kathy Lette, who inserted a character called Chris Grayling into her book Courting Trouble, about a mother - daughter feminist law firm.

Robert Mercer - Nairne is the author of the new novel about the battle between Thatcher and the unions, The Storytellers: Metamorphosis

• Chris Mullin is the author of the novel A Very British Coup (Serpent's Tail), about the surprise election of a leftwing government headed by Harry Perkins, a Sheffield steelworker, which is destabilised by the establishment.

The authors think that dogs likely do not transfer knowledge about physical rules from one physical problem - solving task to another, but rather approach each task as a novel problem.

«Knowing how cells respond to mechanical cues in the living embryo and how they physically sculpt tissues and organs in the 3D space will transform the way we think about developmental processes,» said Otger Campàs, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UCSB and senior author on the paper that reports this novel technique in Nature Methods.

Author of the cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, William Gibson talks about the relationship between his fiction and the contemporary urban landscape

I think James Gunn, the author of the 1972 science fiction novel «The Listeners» about radio astronomy and the search for other life in the universe, said it well: «It may be that there is no one out there or if there is someone out there he will never speak to us or we to him, but our listening is an act of faith akin to living itself.

This week, he's joined by author Andy Weir to explore the fascinating intersection of science and science fiction, delving into the biggest surprises about Mars and the Moon, and how Weir's novel, The Martian.

Award - winning science fiction author, physicist and futurist David Brin returns to talk about his monumental new novel, Existence.

She is the author of two novels about scientists: Experimental Heart and The Honest Look, both published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - her third novel Cat Zero is out 1 February 2018 from Bitingduck Press.

«Our findings suggest further investigation into the potential of MC1R - activating agents as novel neuroprotective therapies for PD, and together with epidemiological evidence, may offer information that could guide those carrying MC1R variants to seek advice from dermatologists or neurologists about their personal risk for melanoma and Parkinson's disease,» lead author Xiqun Chen says in a statement.

I'm excited about this new author, too — it's her debut novel.

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She is also the author of the comedic novel, FREE GIFT WITH PURCHASE about life after divorce.

Writing teacher and author Darcy Pattison blogs about the writing process, with tips on how to write stronger novels and picture books.

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East Coast About Blog Dani Shapiro is the bestselling author of the memoirs Devotion and Slow Motion, and five novels including Black & White and Family History.

Based on the second novel by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn, Dark Places stars Charlize Theron as Libby Day, a woman searching for the truth about the killing of her parents.

Based on the little - known novel «Wild Pork and Watercress» by Kiwi author Barry Crump, «Hunt for the Wilderpeople» is an incredibly charming story about family and acceptance that tugs at the heart strings when it's not busy making you laugh.

Director Jason Priestley and screenwriter David Schultz team up to adapt author Joy Fielding's best - selling novel about a woman who sacrifices her career for marriage, only to discover that another woman is planning to steal her husband away.

Johanna Wokalek, John Goodman, and David Wenham star in director Sönke Wortmann's adaptation of author Donna Woolfolk Cross» novel about a woman who dared to live like no other woman in history, and found herself at the center of a treacherous political conspiracy.

A cute film about the impact of the writing of racy novel on a small town and the town's reaction to the surprising author.

Despite the fact there are many far better authors and novels available, she propelled erotica into the modern mainstream, making it socially acceptable to devour and chitter about publicly.

In Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's animated adaptation of Satrapi's graphic - novel autobiography about a young girl growing up in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution and Iran's war with Iraq, episodic stories give Western readers and many others a glimpse into a fascinating world during a tumultuous era, and the author's illustrations express the caricatured, exaggerated impressions of a young child.

Somewhat fittingly for a film that promises an adventure channeling a hefty chunk of nostalgia, the featurette allows author Ernie Cline — on whose novel the movie is based — to wax poetic about how Spielberg's work shaped his youth.

She is also an aspiring author, her tales about Oz known and appreciated by the children of small - town Kansas (this is apparently an alternate universe where Baum's novels have not been published).

It is based on beloved Canadian author Mordecai Richler's award - winning last novel; it is produced by Robert Lantos; and it has a cast worth bragging about including Paul Giamatti (who scored a Golden Globe nomination), Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver, Rachelle Lefevre, Scott Speedman, Bruce Greenwood and Dustin Hoffman.

From the already talked about ten minute sex scene (leading to an NC - 17 rating), to allegations from the crew over reportedly tough working conditions, to graphic novel author Julie Maroh «s opinions on the adaptation of her work, the conversation around Abdellatif Kechiche «s romance has been equally about these issues as it has been about how great the movie is.

Today in news that could only be nerdier if it were also directing a movie about Han Solo, Prince Nerd of Nerdopolis, Wil Wheaton, will be narrating the audiobook version of Armada, Ready Player One author Ernest Cline's new novel — which will be in stores next week.

John Lee Hancock is directing this story about how Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers reluctantly let Disney adapt her beloved novel.

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