Sentences with phrase «away at fiction»

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I can take away a meaning from it just like I can take a meaning away from a Superman comic, but at the end of the day, both are just fiction.

I was watching Pulp Fiction this weekend, this reminds me of the great scene when Vincent and Jules are surprised by a guy who empties his revolver at them from 6 ft away an misses with every shot.

Moving away from fiction, Guinness World Records 2016 is in eighth spot on the list of most borrowed nonfiction (all library users), and I Am Malala — the 2012 memoir of education activist Malala Yousafzai, aimed at readers aged 10 - 18 — is at number 10 in the list of most borrowed biographies.

At its best, fantasy fiction is transportive, taking us away from the world we know.

Moving away from books, both fiction and non-fiction, centering on the courtroom, but keeping a character we've met in previous books (Kindle County journalist Stewart Dubin) Scott Turow tries his hand at a World War II story, inspired by his father's own military experience.

Kris and I have walked away from many, many contracts that had bad clauses that we just wouldn't sign and we negotiate everything and we still make our living at this business of fiction writing.

I have known several people who published both fiction and nonfiction books with several different Christian publishers who published them without agents and signed away rights that they didn't realize were important at the time.

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.

Good ol' fiction: The River at Night by Erica Ferencik The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable Before I Go by Colleen Oakley Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan by James Michener We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard Since She Went Away by David Bell Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese The Decent Proposal by Kemper Donovan The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison Happy Family by Tracy Barone Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang Bird in Hand by Christina Baker Kline The Weight of Him by Ethel Rohan Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard Saving Grace by Jane Green After You by Jojo Moyes Britt - Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell The Passenger by Lisa Lutz The Girls by Emma Cline Cruel Beautiful World by Caroline Leavitt The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris California by Edan Lepucki Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak Christmas in London by Anita Hughes

In the case of literary fiction / non-fiction, I write from the perspective of someone who is constantly looking for that book that chip away at my highly negative outlook on the literary genre.

Tor is a popular publisher of science fiction and fantasy books, and now the folks at Tor.com are giving away a free ebook each month.

Tellingly, Emma Straub, the author of the Modern Lovers, (PRH / Riverhead), which just debuted at # 14 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list, recently told that paper that she set her book in the Ditmas Park section of Brooklyn, because she «wanted to stay as far away from the quote - unquote Brooklyn book as I could,» a fine distinction to those who are» t familiar with the differences of Brooklyn real estate.

Think of any science fiction scene where human soldiers plink away at armoured monstrosities, only to be slaughtered once the aliens open fire; that's what the start of X-Com felt like, especially when the aliens showed up with heavy weapons.

Recent exhibitions include: Possible Side Effects, Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, MX (2015); Redacted: connecting dots in a shifting field, curated by Janet Goleas, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY (2014); Art = Text = Art at UB Anderson Gallery, University at Buffalo, NY (2014) which travelled from the University of Richmond Museum, VA, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, NJ, and The Hafnarfjör ∂ ur Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland (2013); Contemporary Monochromes, Contemporary Galleries, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013); Science is FICTION, Bartha Contemporary, London (2013), Terrible Beauty: Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin Contemporary, Ireland (2011); Wünsche und Erwerbungen, Zeitgenössische Zeichnung, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (2010); ALL OVER THE MAP, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (2009); BLOWN AWAY, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, IL (2008); Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH (2008); Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite (traveling to 7 University Museums)(2008 - 2009).

This is a personal remembrance of Arthur Charles Clarke, science fiction author extraordinare, advisor to The SETI League, life member of AMSAT, and the world's second greatest communications engineer, who passed away on 18 March 2008, at the age of 90, of complications arising from post-polio syndrome.

Novels to escape into and to transport you away to magical lands and mystical times, non fiction to make you wonder at the world.