Sentences with phrase «focused on her memoir»

Not exact matches

McGowan's memoir will also focus on the actress» upbringing in the Children of God cult, how she escaped it at the age of 13, and how she eventually ended up getting «discovered» in Los Angeles.

While Bread & Wine is a memoir that focuses on life around the table, Eat With Joy delves more deeply and directly into issues related to the theology of eating, touching on everything from food anxiety and eating disorders, to poverty, to obesity, to just and sustainable eating, to hospitality, to mindfulness, to communion.

The Hollywood Reporter says that the film - making company Focus Features «has picked up» the rights to Sam Millar's memoir, On The Brinks.

Whether you are curious about writing, love to journal, have been working on a secret memoir, or have a specific fiction, poetry, or other projects in mind, this retreat will give you ample space to commit time, energy and focus to your writing practice.

Spira's tell - all witty memoir focuses on dating in the digital age.

The screenplay by David Kajganich (The Invasion), based on Finkel's memoir, gradually develops tension while keeping its focus on the two main characters, even if it's embellished to fit a more conventional dramatic framework.

The original screenplay was based mainly on Graham's 1997 memoir, Personal History, and focused on her own transformation.

It's a memoir focussed on «beauty, aging, and the importance of staying true to yourself — no matter what anyone else thinks».

Finally, The Theory of Everything held up well enough for releasing company Focus Features, bringing in an estimated $ 2.5 million at the box office over the weekend, enough to gain a marginal profit against a $ 15 million budget... and still ahead of the critically acclaimed Wild, the Reese Witherspoon - starring film based on the memoir of Cheryl Strayed, which picked up a few theaters and some revenue in the form of an estimated $ 1.6 million.

Based on the memoir of the two brothers, Brothers Of Iron, it focuses on the young siblings raising themselves up from humble origins, as Joe begins weight training, and with the support of his brother, starts an empire of food supplements and publishing.

It mainly focuses on her passionate romance with a much younger movie star named Peter Turner, as played by Jamie Bell, and it's based on Turner's actual memoir.

A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS Focus World Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: C + Director: Natalie Portman Written by: Natalie Portman, based on Amos Oz's memoir Cast: Natalie Portman, Amir Tessler, Gilad Kahana Screened at: Review 1 or 2, NYC, 7/27/16 Opens: August 19, 2016

So, for English teachers, the six - word memoir is a great way to get students to focus on getting a point across in as few words as possible.

In an excerpt from his new memoir This African - American Life, former president of the National Urban League Hugh B. Price describes his elementary and secondary education in Washington, D.C. Price focused on his studies and dreamed of playing major - league baseball — all while he and his schoolmates made history in some of the city's first integrated classrooms after the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Her recently published memoir, Stacking Marbles, A True Life, shows the power of inner strength, being true to your self, and keeping a focus on improving your life, and the life of those around you.

This class is designed for those who have some experience with memoir and narrative essays and want to focus on writing about personal experiences with chronic illness and / or disability.

Schaffner Press is an independent publisher of general trade books in the area of fiction, and non-fiction with a particular focus on mysteries, literary fiction, memoir, biography and autobiography.

Throughout the memoir, Kovic focuses on the poor treatment of America's wounded veterans while painting a gripping portrait of early 1970s activism.

By focusing on the microcosm of her own family and their neighbors, Irmgard's memoir shows how it was possible for a nation to fall willingly under Hitler's power - one family at a time.

Here is a memoir with a very specific focus: the author's experience of traveling to China and her reflections on an «outsider's sense of self.»

Alexandra Fuller's hardscrabble African lyricism returns in her third memoir, which focuses on the push - pull of her...

His touching, hilarious memoir, Bad Kid, focuses on growing up as an outsider with a penchant for trouble in small - town America.

KIRKUS REVIEW: A debut memoir focuses on a family wrestling with the genetic legacy of Huntington's disease.

Her «behind - the - headlines» memoir focuses on what it was like to go from average kid to spotlight — and everything in between.

For today's highlight of book trailers, I've decided to focus on nonfiction — Jason Turbow's hilarious must - read for baseball fans: The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench - Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime (love that complete title) and First Brother - in - Law Craig Robinson's anticipated memoir, A Game of Character.

Susan Raihofer has been an agent at the David Black Agency since 1993 and focuses on commercial fiction and non-fiction, including memoir, pop - culture, music, inspirational; as well as thrillers and a selective amount of literary fiction.

In a memoir, on which part of your life do you want to focus?

If I can address this one: I write about difficult topics as well as Rachel Thompson (aka @RachelintheOC)-- as a childhood sexual abuse survivor, with two memoir / poetry books out (so far) on the topic, and my author platform focuses on those topics.

For those legacy memoirs, a professional editor can help you focus in on the parts that matter; if you're writing a commercial memoir, they can make all the difference when it comes to selling your book.

For this new exhibition in our New York gallery, coinciding with the publication of the book Before Pictures, Galerie Buchholz collaborated with Crimp to expressly focus on the period that he describes in his memoir, beginning with his arrival in New York and ending with the seminal Pictures exhibition at Artist's Space in 1977.

Leckey's current efforts are focused on a new video, a sort of «memoir», the first glimpses of which were seen in his recent exhibition On Pleasure Bent (2013), at the Hammer Museum at UCLon a new video, a sort of «memoir», the first glimpses of which were seen in his recent exhibition On Pleasure Bent (2013), at the Hammer Museum at UCLOn Pleasure Bent (2013), at the Hammer Museum at UCLA.