Sentences with phrase «by new novelist»

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And then there's what bestselling novelist Harlan Coben — the perfect guy to read when you want a long plane trip to fly by — writes in his new book, Don't Let Go.

While Amazon has its defenders — the novelist Barry Eisler wrote in The Guardian this week that the publishing industry has been run «for decades in a way that has benefited the few while stifling new opportunities for the many» — they are greatly outnumbered by its critics.

There are many recent novels in English, written by Indians, which reveal new dimensions of Indian religious life and illuminate the historical, philosophical, and religious studies of Hinduism: R. K. Narayan is one contemporary novelist whose works have excited students to further study of Hinduism and Indian culture.

In his latest book, New York 2140 (Orbit Books, 2017), the acclaimed novelist Kim Stanley Robinson presents a dark - but - hopeful vision for humanity a dozen decades from now, on an Earth radically altered by climate change.

Vestiges isn't by any means homogenised modern pap, but if you are fascinated by Victorian novelists or want to see what the Universe looked like 150 years ago, then Vestiges offers a new insight.

In the 1980s, with a new name inspired by novelist Jules Verne's «20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,» Jules» Undersea Lodge was transformed into the United States» only submerged recreational hotel for divers.

SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco «We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die» Italian novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco, who is curating a new Pink - Collar Work Why Men Don't Want the Jobs Done Mostly by Women

Prophesied by Stephen King to be the new savant of horror, novelist Clive Barker doesn't laxly embark on big - screen descents.

It's actually based on a book called «Wild Pork and Watercress,» by New Zealand comic - adventure novelist Barry Crump, but it's been freely adapted and directed by Taika Waititi, the «Flight of the Conchords» cohort who made the hilarious «What We Do in the Shadows.»

He then appeared in a number of psychedelic films, including 1967's The Trip and the following year's Monkees feature Head, and earned a new audience among anti-establishment viewers.With friends Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson in front of the camera, Hopper decided to direct his own movie, and secured over $ 400,000 in financing to begin filming a screenplay written by novelist Terry Southern.

Mild controversy hovers over the new film by Alex Garland, the novelist - turned - screenwriter - turned - director.

PLUS: A new essay on the film by critic Graham Fuller (DVD and Blu - ray); Walter Tevis's original novel, reprinted specially for this release, and an appreciation of Tevis by novelist Jack Matthews (DVD only)

John (Krasinski), the Hollars» other son, a depressed graphic novelist trying to make it in New York, is summoned home and soon joined by his very pregnant girlfriend, Rebecca (Anna Kendrick).

Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer geninew Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer geniNew York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer geninew film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer genius.

Extras: New interviews with Coppola, Lachman, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson; «Making of The Virgin Suicides,» a 1998 documentary directed by Eleanor Coppola and featuring Sofia Coppola, Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola, actors Dunst, Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Kathleen Turner, and James Woods, Eugenides, and more; «Lick the Star,» a 1998 short film by Coppola; official music video for Air's soundtrack song «Playground Love,» directed and shot by Coppola and her brother Roman Coppola; trailer; an essay by novelist Megan Abbott.

The movie was adapted from the best seller of the same name by Dennis Lehane, the New England novelist known for his Boston - based murder mysteries like Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone.

by Walter Chaw On the strength of his scripts for The Hired Hand, Ulzana's Raid, and Night Moves, Scottish novelist Alan Sharp seems well at home with the better - known, more highly - regarded writers and directors of the New American Cinema.

Special Features Audio commentary from 2002 featuring director Robert Altman and producer David Foster New making - of documentary, featuring members of the Cast and Crew New conversation about the film and Altman's career between film historians Cari Beauchamp and Rick Jewell Featurette from the film's 1970 production Art Directors Guild Film Society Q&A from 1999 with production designer Leon Ericksen Excerpts from archival interviews with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond Gallery of stills from the set by photographer Steve Schapiro Excerpts from two 1971 episodes of The Dick Cavett Show featuring Altman and film critic Pauline Kael Trailer PLUS: An essay by novelist and critic Nathaniel Rich

Special Features New 4K digital restoration New interview with cinematographer John Bailey about director of photography Conrad Hall's work in the film New interview with film historian Bobbi O'Steen on the film's editing New interview with film critic and jazz historian Gary Giddins about Quincy Jones's music for the film New interview with writer Douglass K. Daniel on director Richard Brooks Interview with Brooks from a 1998 episode of the French television series «Cinema Cinemas» «With Love From Truman,» a short 1966 documentary featuring novelist Truman Capote, directed by Albert and David Maysles Two archival NBC interviews with Capote: one following the author on a 1966 visit to Holcomb, Kansas, and the other conducted by Barbara Walters in 1967 Trailer Plus: An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara

Awkwardly bookended by novelist Nathan Zuckerman's (David Strathairn) visit to his 45th high - school reunion, it's the story of Seymour «Swede» Levov (McGregor), a Jewish «golden boy» and star athlete, who marries Dawn Dwyer (Jennifer Connelly), an Irish - Catholic beauty queen, and settles into a seemingly bucolic life on a farm in Old Rimrock, a WASPy western New Jersey township.

Disc Features - High - definition digital restoration, approved by cinematographer Mark Lee Ping - bin, with 5.1 surround DTS - HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu - ray edition - @ «In the Mood for Love,» director Wong Kar - wai's documentary on the making of the film - Deleted scenes with director's commentary — Hua yang de nian hua (2000), a short film by Wong - Archival interview with Wong and a «cinema lesson» given by the director at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival - Toronto International Film Festival press conference from 2000, with stars Maggie Cheung Man - yuk and Tony Leung Chiu - wai - Trailers and TV spots - The music of In the Mood for Love, presented in an interactive essay, on the DVD edition - Essay by film scholar Gina Marchetti illuminating the film's unique setting on the DVD edition - Photo gallery on the DVD edition - Biographies of key cast and crew on the DVD edition - Two new interviews with critic Tony Rayns, one about the film and the other about the soundtrack, on the Blu - ray edition - A booklet featuring the Liu Yi - chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the film, an essay by film critic Li Cheuk - to, and a director's statement (DVD edition); a booklet featuring an essay by novelist and film critic Steve Erickson and the Liu Yi - chang story that provided thematic inspiration for the film (Blu - ray edition)

Nothing that traumatic goes down in «This Is Where I Leave You,» a kitchen - sink dramedy about a suburban New York family reuniting for the Jewish mourning ritual of shiva, directed by Levy from a script and book by the novelist Jonathan Tropper.

Extras include an illustrated paper foldout on the film including informative text and an essay by novelist Megan Abbott, New interviews with Coppola, DP Ed Lachman, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson, The Making of «The Virgin Suicides» (1998 documentary directed by Eleanor Coppola) featuring Sofia Coppola; Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola; actors Dunst, Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Kathleen Turner, and James Woods; Eugenides; and more, Lick the Star, a 1998 short film by Coppola, the official (and odd) music video for Air's soundtrack song «Playground Love,» directed and shot by Coppola and her brother Roman Coppola and an Original Theatrical Trailer.

Having already established himself as a novelist with the cult classic «The Beach» and as a screenwriter by penning the likes of «28 Days Later,» «Sunshine» and adaptations of «Never Let Me Go» and «Dredd,» Alex Garland made his directorial debut with 2015's «Ex Machina,» a story set in the not - too - distant future about a programmer (Domnhall Gleeson) sent by his technological genius boss (Oscar Isaac) to administer the Turing test to a new and advanced form of artificial intelligence, a beautiful humanoid robot (Alicia Vikander).

12 Years a Slave is adapted by screenwriter and novelist John Ridley from the 1853 memoir by Solomon Northup, a black man born free in New York state, tricked, drugged and kidnapped in Washington DC and then sold in chains into slavery in the south.

Special Features New 4K digital restoration, supervised by cinematographer Ed Lachman and approved by director Sofia Coppola, with 5.1 surround DTS - HD Master Audio soundtrack New interviews with Coppola, Lachman, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson Making of «The Virgin Suicides,» a 1998 documentary directed by Eleanor Coppola and featuring Sofia Coppola; Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola; actors Dunst, Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Kathleen Turner, and James Woods; Eugenides; and more Lick the Star, a 1998 short film by Coppola Music video for Air's soundtrack song «Playground Love,» directed by Coppola and her brother Roman Coppola Trailers PLUS: An essay by novelist Megan Abbott

Created by spy - fiction novelist Olen Steinhauer, «Berlin Station,» which begins Sunday on Epix, is a tense, terse thriller — good - looking but never fussy, balancing character and plot in satisfying proportions, a new suit cut to classic lines.

Special Features New Interviews with Critics Molly Haskell and Robert Polito Except from a 1970 Episode of The David Frost Show featuring Actor Joan Crawford «Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star,» A 2002 Feature - Length Documentary Q&A with Actor Ann Blyth from 2002, Conducted by Film Historian Eddie Muller Segment From a 1969 Episode of the Today Show Featuring Mildred Pierce Novelist James M. Cain Trailer Plus: An Essay by Entire Imogen Sara Smith

Special Features New Interviews with Pedro Almodover, Augustin Almondoar, and Actor Carmen Maura New Discussion by Film Scholar Richard Pena of the Film's Impact in Spain and Abroad Trailer Plus: An Essay by Novelist and Critic Elvira Lindo

This weekend, the New York Times magazine published an excerpt from a new book by novelist Nicholson Baker about 28 days he spent as a substitute teacher in Maine in 20New York Times magazine published an excerpt from a new book by novelist Nicholson Baker about 28 days he spent as a substitute teacher in Maine in 20new book by novelist Nicholson Baker about 28 days he spent as a substitute teacher in Maine in 2014.

Such is the case with two new Ripper - themed books by celebrated historical crime novelists Stephen Hunter (Hot Springs) and Alex Grecian (The Yard).

I'm always interested in discovering new authors, and a couple weeks ago I was intrigued by an obituary for Milorad Pavic, a Serbian novelist who died on Nov. 30, at age 80.

Best - selling novelist Ann Patchett described the torrents in an op - ed piece for the New York Times, «Our Deluge, Drop by Drop.»

Joyride to Jupiter by Nuala O'Connor I was a short story writer before I was a novelist and so I love finding new collections of strong - voiced, startling, perfectly calibrated little gems.

From Lorrie Moore's earliest reviews of novels by Margaret Atwood and Nora Ephron, to an essay on Ezra Edelman's 2016 O.J. Simpson documentary, and in between: Moore on the writing of fiction (the work of V. S. Pritchett, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, Stanley Elkin, Dawn Powell, Nicholson Baker, et al.)... on the continuing unequal state of race in America... on the shock of the shocking GOP... on the dangers (and cruel truths) of celebrity marriages and love affairs... on the wilds of television (The Wire, Friday Night Lights, Into the Abyss, Girls, Homeland, True Detective, Making a Murderer)... on the (d) evolving environment... on terrorism, the historical imagination, and the world's newest form of novelist... on the lesser (and larger) lives of biography and the midwifery between art and life (Anaïs Nin, Marilyn Monroe, John Cheever, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eudora Welty, Bernard Malamud, among others)... and on the high art of being Helen Gurley Brown... and much, much more.

Her memoirs tell of her immigration to New York after college, the stifling expectations of her Brighton Beach cousins, and the crucial moment in a bookshop on the Upper West Side, where Tanya attends a reading by Mark Schneider, a Significant New York Novelist.

Edited by novelist and accidental activist Wally Lamb, who teaches a writing workshop at the York Correctional Institution in Connecticut, this new collection came after state officials...

James Lee Burke, acclaimed by critics as «America's best novelist,» «the Graham Greene of the bayou,» and «a poet of the mystery novel,» returns with his popular character, Dave Robicheaux, in a novel rich with atmosphere, ripe with menace, and filled with the kind of crackling dialogue that has made Burke a consistent New York Times best - selling author.

Blood Will Out By Walter Kirn Liveright • $ 15.95 • ISBN 97816314902249 In 1998, novelist Walter Kirn (Up in the Air) wanted to find a home for a shelter dog so badly that he offered to drive the dog all the way from his home in Montana to a wealthy prospective owner in New York City.

She's been shortlisted four times for the US Romance Writers of America RITA Award and twice for the UK Romantic Novelists Association Romance Prize and has popped by today to tell us a little about her new book.

He has been named one of the «twenty best young fiction writers in America» by The New Yorker and one of the «Best of Young American Novelists» by Granta.

From # 1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heartwarming story about childhood friends, broken lives, and a long ago promise that just might offer the hope of love for today.Dubbed the «Queen of Christian Fiction» by Time magazine, # 1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Karen Kingsbury is arguably America's favorite inspirational novelist with a dozen bestsellers to her credit.

A dazzling family love story reminiscent of Everything I Never Told You from a novelist heralded by Lorrie Moore as a «great new talent.»

A monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most «prodigiously talented» (The New York Times Book Review) novelists.

If you're a New Yorker, I'll be appearing at Brooklyn College on March 19 with the poet Dana White and playwright Donna Di Novelli — a brief reading from each of us will be followed by a Q & A. Nashville's Parnassus Bookstore has acclaimed young novelist Amy Greene (Bloodroot) stopping by on Monday evening, March 3, to read from her new novel, Long Man, which has received wonderful advance woNew Yorker, I'll be appearing at Brooklyn College on March 19 with the poet Dana White and playwright Donna Di Novelli — a brief reading from each of us will be followed by a Q & A. Nashville's Parnassus Bookstore has acclaimed young novelist Amy Greene (Bloodroot) stopping by on Monday evening, March 3, to read from her new novel, Long Man, which has received wonderful advance wonew novel, Long Man, which has received wonderful advance word.

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Fantagraphics) by first - time graphic novelist Emil Ferris is nominated in 5 categories: Best Graphic Album — New, Best Writer / Artist, Best Coloring, Best Lettering, and Best Publication Design.

Novelist Nicholson Baker did a memorable deep dive into the Kindle 2 for the New Yorker in 2009, comparing the «greenish, sickly gray» of the screen to a «four - by - five window onto an overcast afternoon.»

My own live - interview segment in Friday's program will feature the novelist and literary critic Emily St. John Mandel, who has published three novels with the independent Unbridled Books and in September sees her new book, Station Eleven, released by Knopf.

I need to prioritise as I've also joined the romantic novelists association and need to write a new book by August - No pressure then??? Wish me luck.

By way of introduction: I'm a full - time, bestselling thriller novelist and creator of Dylan Hunter: the thriller world's «new face of justice.»