Sentences with phrase «from novelist»

Simon & Schuster — In One Person (an excerpt)-- John Irving — A good long free slice from this novelist's new work.

This year, TreeHugger asked some of the biggest green brains — from novelist Margaret Atwood to architect Michelle Kaufmann to scientist David Suzuki — a simple but open question: If you were in charge, what would you fix first?

Smith will cover the gallery walls with quotations from novelist and Hollywood screenwriter Raymond Chandler collaged with her own imagery.

Morimura will borrow his theme from novelist Ray Bradbury, titling his show «ART Fahrenheit 451.»

So it does upstairs, with those scraps from a novelist and a poet that might well belong in the Morgan Library.

Take this confidence boost from novelist John Grisham: If your writing is good, an agent will see it, sooner or later.

Scribe has acquired an autobiographical title from novelist Jeremy Gavron, in which he investigates the loss of his mother at the age of four....

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Moreover, some of my best - and from a novelist's perspective most interesting - childhood memories occurred while I was visiting my Armenian grandparents at their massive brick monolith of a home in a suburb of New York City.

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

From the novelist the New York Times compares to Paul Bowles, Evelyn Waugh and Ian McEwan, an evocative new work of literary suspense.

Wanting goes on sale today, but the book has already received a rave review from novelist Jon Fasman in the Los Angeles Times.

The blurb making the rounds this week is an uber - effusive plug from novelist and poet Nicole Krauss for Israeli author David Grossman's upcoming novel, To the End of the Land (Knopf, September 21).

From a novelist's perspective, this book isn't as on topic as the others: most of the examples are drawn from the world of non-fiction (and most of the author's experience is with helping non-fiction authors).

The result is the typical courtroom dramatics that we have come to expect from the novelist, and anyone who appreciates his style should go home happy.

Slated for September 2016, the trailer shows us a new world from the directorial mind of Burton in collaboration with screenwriter Jane Goldman (Kingsmen: The Secret Service) who's adapted the quirky world from novelist Ransom... [Read more...]

From novelist Nicholas Sparks («The Notebook,» «Message in a Bottle») comes another romantic drama, a passionate story about love, family and forgiveness, a tearjerker about how one long weekend can change the lives of two people.

Ahead of its Cannes debut we have two minutes of compilation footage from Todd Haynes's Carol, the highly anticipated 1950s lesbian drama from novelist Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley) and starring two - time Oscar - winner Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine, The Aviator) and Oscar - nominee Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo).

Michael Fassbender leads an all - star cast in a «legal thriller» from novelist Cormac McCarthy that is anything but conventional.

His career path has taken him from novelist (The Beach) to screenwriter (28 Days Later, Sunshine) before he finally took the plunge with the exceptional Ex Machina.

Writer John Hodge borrowed from novelist Irvine Welsh's 2002 book Porno for the latest installment.

Darker than your average Coens movie, the brothers adapted «No Country for Old Men» from novelist Cormac McCarthy's western thriller.

I respect his artistic decision to go in that direction, but that makes it difficult for the casual viewer and even for the serious film buff to recognize all of the out - of - sight artistic talking heads from novelist Italo Calvino to screenwriter Tullio Pinelli.

Like Michael Crichton and Nicholas Meyer — and unlike fellow horror authors Stephen King (Maximum Overdrive), John Farris (Dear, Dead Delilah) and William Peter Blatty (The Ninth Configuration)-- Clive Barker's career move from novelist to director is distinguished not only by a more - than - competent technical job but by a carry - over of the distinctive voice of his prose work.

May 26, 2017 • On the occasion of the death of writer Denis Johnson, we share a 2007 reflection on Johnson's book Jesus» Son, from novelist Nathan Englander.

Adapted by Joseph Hoffman (Week - End with Father) from novelist and former army intelligence officer Darwin L. Teilhet's 1945 book, My True Love (11), it begins with soldier - on - leave Alvah (Tony Curtis) and his sweetheart, Lee (Piper Laurie), arriving in Las Vegas at a wedding parlour that promises «Dignified Weddings» but delivers anything but.

Mixing the action, comedy and horror from novelist R.L. Stein's books into a family - friendly package, this lively romp is entertaining enough to amuse the audience even when it veers off the rails.

As strange as anything from a novelist's imagination, black holes warp the fabric of spacetime and imprison light and matter in a gravitational death grip.

Certainly Coover's particular blend of fact and fiction has caused political conservatives to recoil in distaste from the novelist's authorial license.

That night of work downstairs reminded me of a quote from novelist A.S. Byatt that Elizabeth Gilbert shared on the first episode of her brilliant podcast, Magic Lessons.

From the novelist as well as from the stories in Scripture the theologian should take courage to concentrate on the experience of coming to belief, not on the «beliefs» themselves (the sedimentation of experiences of coming to belief).

I asked Peper whether there might be anything entrepreneurs could learn from a novelist.

Having just come from the Novelists, Inc. (Ninc) conference, my brain is fried with all the important information I learned.

You would not believe how often my imprint, which states on its webpage it publishes NONFICTION, receives queries from novelists.

Bloggers can learn from novelists, too.

Not exact matches

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

The novelist Reynolds Price once remarked that there is a single sentence that, above all, people crave from stories: The Maker of all things loves and wants me.

The novelist has to be detached from the place filled with the ghosts of his ancestors, but not too much.

The fact that a novel's narrator must speak as a god from outside the story has always vexed novelists, particularly when the narrator is also a human character in the story.

With that preparation, Professor Richard propounded the first question, the one Percy had to contend with from his early recognition as novelist to the end: «Do you consider yourself as a Southern writer and, if so, what features of your work do you regard as peculiarly Southern?»

• Victor Segalen, Stèles: Segalen — physician, poet, novelist, Sinologist, aesthetic theorist, among other things — was admired by Borges and Simon Leys (who took his nom de guerre, I believe, from Segalen's novel René Leys), and has long had a small but unflagging following.

As much as any Israeli novelist of his generation, Amos Oz is responsible for liberating his country's fiction from the heavy hand of politically driven «socialist realism.»

Upon hearing the young man's name, the Nobel Prize «winning novelist asked: «Aren't you the child who, having been left an orphan by his poor mother and distanced himself from his father, went off to live the life of the kibbutz?

Graham Greene endorsed the novel, saying, «Endō, to my mind, is one of the finest living novelists,» and from that moment Silence has been firmly ensconced in the Catholic literary canon of the twentieth century, along with the works of Greene himself, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy.

Crime novelist Don Winslow — who adamantly discourages people from using any type of drug — has spent much of his career studying Mexican drug cartels.

Bloom's counterweight to this dreary reductionism is the Great Tradition of Western letters from Plato to Tolstoy; and most of the book is devoted to individual chapters on such novelists as Rousseau, Austen, Stendahl, and Tolstoy, with a whole section devoted to the romantic comedies and tragedies of Shakespeare, and a concluding fugue on Plato's Symposium.

The other participants had arrived before Fallows: Reynolds Price, the novelist; von Hoffman; Charles Hamilton, the political scientist from Columbia (does one now say, «the sometime collaborator with Stokely Carmichael»?

Kazantzakis's Jesus, like his Saint Francis, is a tortured hero, emerging from an earthshaking experience with God convinced that sex is sinful — the antitype of the novelist's totally sensuous Zorba the Greek.

Thirty years later — after Mary Ann Evans had come to London and become Marian Evans, then (in her mind, though not in English law, since the man with whom she lived was married to another) Marian Lewes, and ultimately the great and famous novelist George Eliot» she wrote in very similar terms to Harriet Beecher Stowe: for the good of humankind, orthodox Christianity must be replaced by an ethical religion that would instill in us «a more deeply awing sense of responsibility to man, springing from sympathy with the difficulty of the human lot.»

As shafts of light illuminate the darkness, a soprano voice sings lyrics commissioned by Disney from poet and novelist Rachael Field specifically for Fantasia: