Sentences with phrase «fiction collections of»
fiction collections of at least 150 pages comprised either entirely of short stories or one novella along with short stories
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Ford's father was a travelling salesman, the Pulitzer - winning American novelist tells us in the introduction to this collection of short fiction, and he kept that job through the Depression, the Second World War, and the entire 1950s, a time when your job was in some ways synonymous with your character.
Neither is geologist Liz Hajek, but she makes an exception for this book: «I don't generally gravitate toward fiction, but this collection of short stories, set in a variety of compelling places and time periods, is so creative and rich, it's been really fun to read.»
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.
Time to put that bible (a collection of fables) back into the fiction section and move on.
The Author correctly says «The Bible is an ancient collection of letters, laws, poetry, proverbs, histories, prophecies, philosophy and stories spanning multiple genres and assembled over thousands of years» but she forgot the most important thing - the bible is mostly a work of fiction.
When you consider the sheer weight of his life's work — nearly 50 works of nonfiction, 20 of fiction, and four collections of poetry — it's hard to believe the man ever left his desk.
In the interviews gathered for this collection, Wolfe is full of opinions about fiction, most of them inappropriate.
The myth about matter is built on the fiction that the universe consists of nothing but a collection of inert particles, pulling and pushing each other like cogs in a deterministic machine.
The collection of short stories won the 2013 Flannery O'Connor Award in Short Fiction from the University of Georgia Press.
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.
More important than any piece of scientific research is the collection of fearsome science - fiction scenarios that comprise its implications.
Many a lesser writer would have pared down «The Coming of Vertumnus», the 50 - page title story of Ian Watson's new science fiction collection, to make it more acceptable to editors.
Full marks to Gollancz for publishing this collection of stories by one of Britain's consistently finest science fiction writers — but it, and other book publishers, would be doing themselves, writers and readers a favour by providing more outlets for short fiction.
As the title implies, this collection concentrates on writings about AIDS, but it strays far, from Paula Treichler's exemplary analysis of US network television dramatisation of AIDS, to Richard Dellamora's reading of an Edmund White short story and Sander Gilman's survey of 20th - century German fiction about contagion, real and imagined.
«Starship Century — Toward the Grandest Horizon» is the new collection of fact and fiction assembled by Gregory and James Benford.
The scope of Why the Lion Grew its Mane: A Miscellany of Recent Scientific Discoveries from Astronomy to Zoology, as stated by the author, is to offer a «fascinating collection of recent discoveries that overturn popular conceptions, enter realms that were previously the preserve of science fiction, or simply add to the sum of human knowledge».
The series also includes New Ghost Stories, an annual collection of supernatural fiction.
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It has been argued that Jackson's performances in Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown served to sanction his writer - director's fetishizing of certain stereotypes pertaining to African - American movie characters — and also his co-opting of subcultural postures and attitudes well beyond his real - life experiences (if not, it goes without saying, his VHS collection).
It's a visually astonishing and riveting seven - part collection of images so surreal they almost feel like science fiction.
We are to see it devouring a naked maiden in the uncle's collection of rare erotic fiction and later in his dungeon.
Parzival follows his rush of adrenaline at pointing out Aech's collection by setting aside the Galactica and picking up another unsung hero of the science fiction action genre: the USS Sulaco, a Conestoga - class troop transport ship.
Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About the Future (Scholastic Press), compiled by Michael Cart, is a collection of stories written for this anthology by ten different authors of young adult fiction, including Jon Scieszka, Rodman Philbrick, Gloria Skurzynski, Lois Lowry, and Katherine Paterson.
Does your library or classroom collection include a mix of fiction and nonfiction titles?
This collection of interconnected short stories blends fact and fiction to convey the haunting aura of Vietnam.
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You can find curated collections of high - interest fiction and non-fiction texts at Steps to Literacy.
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In terms of trad pub vs indie — most trad publishers don't want to publish collections of short fiction by unknowns, but you can submit to magazines and anthologies as well as self - publishing collections or using them for marketing.
Romance doesn't have a lot of conventions, unlike SFF, (or at least it didn't — it's expanding too,) so it's not surprising Romantic Times got inundated, as romance has been at the forefront of e-books, self - pub romances, small press publication, shorter fiction publications (novellas & collections,) and author - reader interaction.
I'm really looking forward to reading your collection of stories because it will be my first experience of flash fiction.
His fiction includes Sutherland's Rules, a crime caper / thriller with a shimmer of the fantastic; Black Easter, a supernatural suspense novel which pits love against black magic and demonic possession on a remote, idyllic Greek island; and Free Verse and Other Stories, a collection of Dario's short science fiction work (currently 99 cents on Amazon).
Recently, our author Sara Schaff's debut short fiction collection Say Something Nice About Me was included as a finalist for the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Awards.
There again, this could be a great theme for a flash fiction collection, each story focusing on a different reviewer of the same book.
Fiction writer Danielle Lazarin discusses five journals that have published her short stories, some of which appear in her debut collection, Back Talk, forthcoming from Penguin Books in February.
On Thursday, the company unveiled Nook Snaps, a collection of short fiction and narrative non-fiction commissioned by Nook.
Speaking of hearts, there's one last reward of reviewing that I'd like to mention: that as an author myself, I know how heartwarming it is to receive an enthusiastic review for my own work, and the arrival of not one but two glowing reviews for my latest book, the collection of very short stories (aka flash fiction) has made my week already — and it's still only Tuesday.
He has also self - published a Twenty Palaces prequel titled (cleverly) Twenty Palaces, a pacifist urban fantasy called A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark, and a collection of short fiction called Bad Little Girls Die Horrible Deaths and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy.
We will for the entire month of January accept submissions for full - length collections of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
Free Verse and Other Stories, a collection of Dario's short science fiction work, was released in June 2014.
GUADALAJARA: Flash fiction and nonfiction, a genre that brought brevity to our bookshelves by way of literary magazines, has come of age, with Random House Mondarori's (RHM) launch of its Spanish - language Flash series, a collection of short fiction by renowned authors available only as e-books.
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In a season filled with long - awaited novels, this just might be the juggernaut — Salter's last novel, Solo Faces, was published more than 30 years ago, and it's been seven years since he published his last work of fiction, the short story collection Last Night.
In a career spanning three decades she published fifteen novels, three short story collections, prize - winning children's fiction and twelve collections of poetry.
His first collection, Last Days of the Dog - Men, won the Sue Kauffman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts & Letters; his first novel, Heaven of Mercury, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and his As in the Prime of Their Lives was a finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, Moral Disorder, with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing to mind her award - winning 1996 novel, Alias Grace.
• Coming next year from Random House is Garlic in Fiction, a new collection of works by Shirley Jackson, culled from her archives and edited by two of her children.
Now Gulley is trying his hand at fiction, with this month's release of Home to Harmony, in which the fictional town of Harmony, Indiana, hosts the biggest collection of crusty, lovable characters since James Herriott settled in Yorkshire.
Adam Johnson — who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2013 with The Orphan Master's Son — returns on August 18 with a collection of six stories, Fortune Smiles (Random House).