Sentences with phrase «author of a short story»

Jonathan Nolan, brother of Christopher and the author of short story on which the film is loosely based («Memento Mori,» which is included in its entirety on the disc), designed the menus.

Kim Edwards is the author of a short story collection, The Secrets of a Fire King, which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN / Hemingway Award, and has won both a Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award, and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers» Workshop.

Adam Haslett is the author of the short story collection You Are Not a Stranger Here and the novel Union Atlantic.

He is the author of a short story collection, Vladimir's Mustache, and currently teaches writing at Augsburg College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Ingrid Hill is the author of the short story collection Dixie Church Interstate Blues and the novel, Ursula, Under.

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If you are an author of short stories, you should make sure that they all have a similar theme.

Discover the finest writing contests of 2018 for fiction and non-fiction authors of short stories, poetry, essays and more.

Award - winning author of short stories, novels, novellas, and screenplays.

Peter Steele — Author of short stories — available in ebook format via his site.

Amelia Gray is the author of the short story collections AM / PM, Museum of the Weird, and Gutshot, as well as the novels Threats and, most recently, Isadora, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Mirene Arsanios is the author of the short story collection, The City Outside the Sentence (Ashkal Alwan, 2015).

Ben Fountain Ben Fountain is the author of a short story collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, and a novel, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.

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Amy Bloom, author of two New York Times best - sellers and three collections of short stories, has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Vogue, among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award for Fiction.

The O. Henry Prize recognizes great pieces of short fiction and is «intended to «strengthen the art of the short story and to stimulate younger authors.

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John Cheever» the midcentury novelist and author of more than 150 short stories» was selfish, unstable, alcoholic, narcissistic, sexually compulsive, and a rotten father.

The only evidence we have is a collection of 4 short stories written by admittedly devout anonymous authors 50 - 130 years after he supposedly died.

Englander, author of a new book of short stories called «What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,» has roots in many of these worlds.

Wendy Nikel is a speculative fiction author whose short stories have appeared in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Daily Science Fiction, AE Sci - Fi, Nature: Futures, and various anthologies and estories have appeared in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Daily Science Fiction, AE Sci - Fi, Nature: Futures, and various anthologies and eStories of the Imagination, Daily Science Fiction, AE Sci - Fi, Nature: Futures, and various anthologies and e-zines.

I'm not sure I would... though I'd love to have the skill to write short stories to explore the outcomes of new ideas, like the best science fiction authors.

On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction Karl Iagnemma, The Dial Press, $ 22.95 A computer technician who thinks he's found the mathematical equation for romance and a botanist who secretly yearns for the author of her field's most trusted text are two of the protagonists in a spellbinding collection of short stories from Iagnemma, a roboticist and fiction writer at MIT.

Wireless by Charles Stross This lively collection from the Hugo Award — winning author of Accelerando includes recent short stories plus the fast - paced original novella Palimpsest.

David Ewing Duncan, an award - winning, best - selling author of seven books and numerous essays, articles and short stories; and a television, radio and film producer and correspondent, visits the Genomic Medicine Institute.

This weekend, the New Yorker short story «Cat Person» took over the internet, with everyone discussing author Kristen Roupenian's cringingly relatable depiction of...

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Synopsis: An imposing black structure provides a connection between the past and the future in this enigmatic adaptation of a short story by revered sci - fi author Arthur C. Clarke.

The breathtaking, richly eloquent, and visually - poetic film - deliberately filmed at a slow pace - about space travel and the discovery of extra-terrestrial intelligence (many years before Star Wars (1977), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)-RRB-, was based on the published 1951 short story The Sentinel, written in 1948 by English science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke.

Originally created in the 1930s by short - lived author Robert Howard, the character of Conan the Barbarian has seen a number of incarnations over the years, including an upcoming filmed re-adaptation of Howard's original stories.

Jackson is often remembered for her short story «The Lottery» and is also the author of the novels «The Haunting of Hill House» and «The Sundial» as well as the memoir «Life Among the Savages,» among other work.

In her début book of short stories, the Canadian author makes disconcerting symbols out of everyday objects like sewing machines and canned food and offers up a powerful examination of the human (and often female) body under attack.

Adapted by esteemed crime writer Dennis Lehane from his short story «Animal Rescue,» the movie doesn't have the same cynicism as past adaptions of the author's work («Mystic River,» «Gone Baby Gone»), but it's a grimy little crime drama that harkens back to the great Sidney Lumet films of the 1970s.

Mia Wasikowska is among the directors of this uneven portmanteau movie based on a short - story collection by prize - winning author Tim Winton

When Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes finally hit cinemas in 1983, it was the end of a journey that had begun for the author in 1948 when the short story on which it was ultimately based was first published.

In celebration of Hans Christian Andersen, author of the original fairytale of The Little Mermaid, there is a short look at The Story Behind The Story and a short animated film of another of his creations, The Little Match Girl.

In that pursuit, drawing from various short stories of the author of The Man In The High Castle and whose work Blade Runner is based on, the Bryan Cranston, Ronald D. Moore and Isa Dick Hackett EP'd series with individual writers and directors for each stand - alone episode rolls around the notion of what it is to be a human being amidst pervasive digital technology and what is real.

Based on two short stories (it shows) from Toronto - born author Craig Davidson, the film puts itself squarely in the specious Paul Haggis tradition of the crisscrossing tragedy but keeps the stakes pretty low much of the time, mostly sparing us the usual tortured hymns about how we're all connected at some primal level.

Ellery Queen Mysteries (E1)-- Ellery Queen is both the pseudonymous author of and the main character in the scores of novels and short stories that made him the most well - known detective in American fiction.

'» The author's short story concerns a woman who shows up in Alaska with her two kids, determined to find someone bold, someone of substance.

WHY: Adapted by esteemed crime writer Dennis Lehane from his own short story, «The Drop» doesn't have the same cynicism as past adaptions of the author's work, but it's a grimy little crime drama that harkens back to the great Sidney Lumet films of the 1970s.

Based on the first King novel written after the author was smeared across a Maine highway by a man who would later kill himself in a trailer, the book is a fine short story trapped in the body of a six - hundred page book.

Wallace, the author of darkly ironic novels, essays and short stories, committed suicide in 2008.

More difficult is the tedium that often accompanies the addiction / recovery / relapse narrative — a problem currently up for deconstruction in Leslie Jamison's new memoir, «The Recovering,» in which the author frets that stories of sobriety get the literary equivalent of short shrift, unable to compel us the same way that stories of addiction do, with their manic highs and grand tales of misbehavior.

Meanwhile, Depp is reportedly starring in the film «Alice in Wonderland 2,» based on author Lewis Carroll's work, and has long been rumored to be involved with a remake of the «Thin Man» films, which were based on the short stories by Dashiell Hammett and which originally starred actors William Powell and Myrna Loy.

Watching Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, Amazon's new sci - fi anthology series based on the author's short stories, is a potent lesson in just what a long shadow the prolific and endlessly imaginative author has cast over the world of contemporary science fiction in all its forms.

As the length of the book is given a wide latitude, especially best - sellers such as this, the authors usually have free range as far as how long they develop their stories, as short as 150 pages to over 1000 in some cases.

Gay is a renowned author who has written well - regarded books (An Untamed State, Hunger) and collections of essays and short stories (Bad Feminist, Difficult Women).

Dark Horse Comics has announced that Eisner - award winning creator Mark Buckingham (Fables) is adapting four of New York Times best - selling author Neil Gaiman's prose short stories for the upcoming graphic novel anthology Likely Stories, to be published as a hardcover original graphic novel by Dark Horse Book later thistories for the upcoming graphic novel anthology Likely Stories, to be published as a hardcover original graphic novel by Dark Horse Book later thiStories, to be published as a hardcover original graphic novel by Dark Horse Book later this year.

Based on a short story from Pulitzer Prize winning author Steven Millhauser and adapted by Marilyn Fu, the story takes the concept of the witch trials and sets it in today's highschool world complete with the perils of social media.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ponsoldt will be directing a film adaptation of Inconstant Moon, an award - winning science fiction short story from author Larry Niven, for -LSB-...]