Sentences with phrase «celebrated writers of»

From one of the most ambitious and internationally celebrated writers of her generation, Hustvedt's The Blazing World is a polyphonic tour de force.

One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.

He was among the most celebrated writers of his time, a world traveler, pioneer of civil rights, and an acquaintance of Ernest Hemingway, but when he died, Roi Ottley was virtually forgotten» and forgotten, too, was his remarkable encounter with Pope Pius XII....

He was among the most celebrated writers of his time, a world traveler, pioneer of civil rights, and an acquaintance of Ernest Hemingway, but when he died, Roi Ottley was virtually forgotten — and forgotten, too, was his remarkable encounter with Pope Pius XII.

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In it he rounds up a diverse selection of creative greats — from fine artists to celebrated writers — all of whom have expressed, one way or another, that a healthy dose of messiness is an essential ingredient in their creative processes.

The writer should be ashamed of himself, celebrating hate.

«The Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College is a biennial conference that brings together writers, editors, publishers, musicians, artists, and readers for three days of discussing and celebrating insightful writing that explores, in some significant way, issues of faith.»

Richard Dawkins, in his celebrated book, The Selfish Gene, exemplifies the same position.3 And a similar reduction of biology to a molecular science may be found in the writings of E.O. Wilson, Ernst Mayr, Jacques Monod and numerous other highly respected scientific writers.4 In Chance and Necessity, for example, Monod gives one of the most forceful renditions of the view that biochemical analysis is «obviously» the sole avenue to understanding the secret of life.5 Decades ago Jacques Loeb had already set forth the program of inquiry still emulated today by many biologists:

Kim Hyland is a writer, a speaker, and the founder and host of Winsome, an annual retreat for women that celebrates authenticity, diversity, and truth.

Likewise, O'Connor's celebrated lectures on Catholic fiction and the Catholic writer are obvious attempts to formulate a collective sense of the literary moment.

But it does seem fair to ask that a writer, especially one with Updike's profound Lutheran sensibility, not decadently celebrate the absence of final solutions, nor nihilistically relish the agony of contraries.

Today we're celebrating our dear friend, the writer of the strikingly beautiful blog Pure Ella!

We writers toil in relative solitude, and the opportunity to celebrate the publication of a new book is a unique pleasure.

Alabama is celebrating its creative talent across a variety of industries including manufacturing, chef's musicians, writers and artists.

And instead of finding 100 things wrong with what I'm doing or not doing either as a Mom or a writer or a singer, I stop and celebrate everything that is absolutely wonderful about each day.

Our Boston: Writers Celebrate the City They Love by Andrew Blauner (via Heather: «Collection of essays and stories benefitting The One Fund.»)

He is being celebrated not only as a winner of multiple Olympic medals with his athletes, but according to staff writers of a June 2015 article in Victoria News, he is also being celebrated as a «true role model.»

Stacey Ferguson, Justice Fergie [«Cheer for Your Cheerleaders»] Kristin Shaw, Two Cannoli [«You Know Your Child Best»] Aviva Goldfarb, The Scramble [«Always the Potential for Good»] Margo Porras, Nacho Mama [«Your Kids Will Do What You Do»] Emily McKhann, The Motherhood [«You Are Courageous»] Jane Maynard, This Week for Dinner [«Savor Even the Hard Seconds»] Mary Ann Zoellner, producer at NBC's TODAY [«Play Like a Dad»] Lian Dolan, Oprah.com [«Life is Serious Enough»] Maria Bailey, Mom Talk Radio [«Take Time to Celebrate You»] Christie Matheson, Stroller Traffic [«Nothing Better Than Coming Home»] Carla Naumburg, Psychcentral.com [«You Are Not Your Thoughts»] Jenny Lee Sulpizio, JennyLeeSulpizio.com [«I'm Not Above Mom Jeans»] Kimberly Coleman, Foodie City Mom [«Follow Your Own Inner Voice»] Missy Stevens, Wonder, Friend [«Nice Things Are Still Just Things»] Rachel Jankovic, Femina Girls [«It's Not Supposed to Be Easy»] Megan Brooks, Texas Health Moms [«The Love Language of Listening»] Carissa Rogers, Good N Crazy [«Here's to Embracing Change»] Dina Freeman, BabyCenter [«Learn to Swim in the Deep End»] Elizabeth Grant Thomas, Elizabethgrantthomas.com [«It's Easier to See Light in Darkness»] Wendy Hilton, Hip Homeschool Moms [«They Want to Make Us Happy»] Renée Schuls - Jacobson, Rasjacobson.com [«Beware of Emotional Vampires»] Shannon Lell, ShannonLell.com [«Don't Be Afraid to Sparkle»] Bunmi Laditan, Honest Toddler [«What Makes You a Writer»] Erin Dymoski, Sisterhood of the Sensible Moms [«What I'd Tell My Younger Self»] Lyss Stern, Divamoms.com [«Those Who Matter Don't Mind»] Debra Shigley, In Deb's Kitchen [«Feeling Bad?

Celebrating the ribbon cutting for Bascomb Elementary School's new permanent shade structure are, from left to right, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightower, School Board Chair Kyla Cromer, Atlanta North Dermatology dermatologist Dr. Ellen Koo, PTA grant writer Amanda Weber, Principal Kathleen Chandler, Georgia PTA President Lisa - Marie Haygood and School Board Member Rick Steiner.

While journals like African Affairs (co-edited by Nic Cheeseman) hold writing workshops in African universities and offer prizes to encourage and celebrate African writers, they rarely publish issues that feature a majority of African authors.

In the words of celebrated indie writer Harvey Pekar: «Comics are just words and pictures.

Celebrated travel writer Bryson sprinkles this saga with sharp - witted portraits of such scientists as the sex - obsessed Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, who invented the modern biological classification system and named one plant genus Clitoria.

Prolific cookbook author and acclaimed British food writer Diana Henry, celebrates the art of preserving in her sixth cookbook, Salt Sugar Smoke: How to Preserve Fruit, Vegetables, Meat and Fish.

From writer's festivals and film festivals to satisfy arty singles, to beer festivals and food celebrations to please gourmet lovers, to the legendary Auckland Arts Festival that celebrates life in the City of Sails, there is something here to suit everyone.

I think the horror genre is home to some of the most creative and talented writers I have had the pleasure of reading and The Horror Bookshelf is my way of celebrating their work.

The new Salinger biopic from writer / director Danny Strong («The Hunger Games: Mockingjay») makes it clear that the celebrated author practiced an aggressive form of self - isolation in response to the acclaim and public scrutiny that followed his hugely influential debut novel, «Catcher in the Rye.»

As comedy writer on almost every major award show and laugh doctor to some of Hollywood's biggest stars, Get Bruce celebrates the career of one of show business's hardest - working unsung heroes.

The writers introduce the idea that Gotham City has run out of money with which to celebrate its bicentennial, the result of terrible fiscal mismanagement, but nothing is really made of it.

Whereas Kubrick was derided for pushing the visual medium beyond comprehension fifty years ago, Alex Garland (who is usually a thought - provoking writer) is being celebrated for merely following in the footsteps of visionary geniuses who have come before him, with few novel ideas of his own to add to the mix.

In this new comedy adventure, celebrated travel writer, Bill Bryson (Academy Award winner Robert Redford), instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife (Academy Award winner Emma Thompson), and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail - 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine.

I don't think there is anything controversial about celebrating an awesome afro - centric Marvel movie or some long overdue representation for under - represented peoples (even if the writer were a member of an over-represented people).

James cuts — as in all of his best work — straight to the human heart of the matter, celebrating both the writer and the man, the one inseparable from the other, largely in Ebert's own words.

The great Catherine Keener was a wonderful foil for Hoffman in «Capote» as the celebrated writer Harper Lee, and January Jones was marvelous in «The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,» though no one noticed.

To celebrate ten years of Reverse Shot, each writer chose a film that gives him or her hope for the future of the medium.

The mission of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film is to celebrate the accomplishments of television and film directors, writers, producers, cinematographers, and editors — who happen to be women.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the indie comedy hit «Napoleon Dynamite» with writer - director Jared Hess and star Jon Heder participating in a live commentary screening and conversation on Monday, June 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the Bing Theatre on the LACMA -LSB-...]

Writer John Gatins and director Dean Israelite make sure to take the characters» emotions seriously even as they celebrate the ridiculousness of everything else.

Wallace, Lipsky argues, is not just some celebrated writer but the voice of his generation, as some reviews of his 1,000 - page novel Infinite Jest have claimed.

The three day Lady Filmmakers Festival celebrates women filmmakers and the men who collaborate with them by screening films with women in one or more of the following leadership positions: writer, director, pro...

To celebrate the release of «Dark Feed», from the Writers of «John Carpenter's The Ward», Media Mikes would like to giveaway TWO copies of the film on DVD.

We have cause to celebrate American writer, Donald Phelps, who in the tradition of Manny Farber, deploys a style of writing that invents its own rules along the way, that collapses any distance with the object under analysis to become infected with its flavour, feeling and beat.

American writer / director Noah Baumbach is currently putting the finishing touches on his next feature, The Meyerowitz Stories, which centres around an estranged family as they reconvene to celebrate the work of their artist father.

Such shots are frequently celebrated in film — think of Martin Scorsese's use of tracking shots over the years, or the self - parodying opening of Robert Altman's The Player — but critics rarely call attention to them on TV, perhaps because TV is more of a writers» medium, or perhaps because they're simply not as showy as others, often blending into the background.

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 genius.

To celebrate the lavish legacy of Bergdorf Goodman, the world's toniest department store, writer - director Matthew Miele has made a department store of a documentary, stocked to the hilt with an obscene inventory of storylines, talking heads, and utterly tasteless choices.

Host Richard Hatch (Capt. Apollo, Tom Zarek), director Michael Nankin (BG, Defiance, Blood and Chrome), Dr. Kevin Grazier (consultant, Defiance, BG, Falling Skies, Caprica), producer / writer Michael Angeli (Battlestar Galactica), write / producer Kevin Murphy (Defiance, Battlestar), Michael Taylor (Battlestar, Caprica, Defiance), producer Paul Leonard (Battlestar, Caprica, Defiance), and surprise BG guests discuss and celebrate the 35 - year history and future of the three Battlestar Glactica series and franchise.

From the Studio: From acclaimed writer / director Jeff Nichols, Loving celebrates the real - life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), who married and then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their hometown.

Plenty of distinctive movie writers have reputations as actors or as actor - directors, starting with such giants as D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Erich von Stroheim, but they're rarely celebrated for their writing.

Kristin Davis during Cindy Chupack, Executive Producer / Writer of HBO's Hit Series Sex and The City, Celebrates the Release of Her First Book, «The Between Boyfriends Book,» a Collection of Cautiously Hopeful Essays.

The Role: Adapted from Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel (and the first film version of the celebrated author's work), Oscar nominated writer / director Paul Thomas Anderson wrangles this twisty, drug - fueled haze of a story involving a weed - smoking, hippie, private detective named Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix).