Sentences with phrase «like contemporary fiction»

I like contemporary fiction.

Not exact matches

His candor may sound harsh and politically incorrect to us in our contemporary setting, but like a skilled surgeon's hands, it still excises cancerous fictions, lies that sicken us unto death.

Allende is best known for her memoirs, historical fiction and magical realism, so this novel sounds like a departure — if only because of its contemporary setting.

Dan Chaon's novel Await Your Reply was «a profound and haunting exploration of the shifting, often tenuous, nature of identity... a thrilling example of the best of contemporary literary fiction,» although he's probably best known for his story collections, like National Book Award finalist Among the Missing, in which he» [brought] clarity to the confusion of people's inner motives.»

This is good news for a publisher like Rosinante because contemporary Danish fiction is one of our main interests.

If you like contemporary YA fiction à la Jenny Han, I suggest you read a new debut about family and first love: My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick.

Among these amazing stories are heart - pounding science fiction fairytale retellings like CINDER by Marissa Meyer; hilarious adventure flicks such as MY LADY JANE by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows; contemporary romances like THE PRINCESS DIARIES by Meg Cabot and even nonfiction, with VICTORIA: Portrait of a Queen by Catherine Reef.

If this sounds like the starting point for run - of - the - mill contemporary women's fiction, don't be deceived.

From one of Iran's most acclaimed and controversial contemporary writers, his first novel to appear in English — a dazzlingly inventive work of fiction that opens a revelatory window onto what it's like to live, to love, and to be an artist in today's Iran.

Which Shakespeare play would you most like to see as a contemporary work of fiction?

Maass shares examples from contemporary writers across all genres to equip you with the strategies great writers use to craft great fiction — from core fiction - writing elements like character, setting, description, and plot, to more advanced techniques including point of view, voice, and suspense.

Seems like regardless of whether it is contemporary, historical, paranormal, women's fiction, editors want that heartfelt emotion.

I've done a lot better with niche fiction like African - American Fantasy and screenplays than with contemporary fiction.

Fantasy also has subgenres like science fiction does: high epic, urban, historical, slipstream, traditional, comic and contemporary.

If your book falls into one of the larger categories like crime fiction or contemporary romance, for example, you're looking at many hundreds of dollars.

Her innovations in the crime fiction genre over the last 50 years laid the groundwork for contemporary authors like Lianne Moriarty and Gillian Flynn — and her fans still wait eagerly to see what she'll deliver next.

Like the adult book market, YA fiction has countless varieties and popularity waxes and wanes — coming of age in a distinct time and / or culture (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill A Mockingbird); drugs and gangs (Go Ask Alice, Rumblefish, The Outsiders), vampires and paranormal (the Twilight series), dystopian (the Hunger Games and Divergent series), contemporary (The Fault in Our Stars, Eleanor & Park).

I don't like where contemporary style has become accepting of some things in fiction, but again, it's not you; it's me.

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Scott Benson, co-writer of Night in the Woods, once referred to his game and other contemporary works like Welcome to Night Vale as «humanist weird fiction.»

The trailer features imagery and settings that feel calculated to remind players not only of the earlier Ghost Recon games, but also of popular recent films and TV series like Sicario and Narcos which have made the intricacies and mythos of the international drug trade a popular topic for dark contemporary fiction.

FRANCIS PICABIA: OUR HEADS ARE ROUND SO OUR THOUGHTS CAN CHANGE DIRECTION Picabia was on the ground with the Dadaists in Paris, but this exhibition includes his later work, which has influenced contemporary painters — perverse figurative paintings that look like precursors to Pop Art, or pulp fiction book covers.

A contemporary artist hailing from Los Angeles, Arceneaux often finds inspiration in history, science fiction, social movements, philosophy, and architecture, for the creation of his immersive installations that artfully synthesize diverse media like video, sculpture, and painting.

2007 Fit to Print: Printed Media in Recent Collage, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY Hammer Contemporary Collection - Part I, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA L.A. Desire (Part 1), Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Dusseldorf, Germany Like Color in Pictures, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO Painting as Fact - Fact as Fiction, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zürich, Switzerland Warhol and..., Kantor / Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Complexity of the Simple, L&M Arts, New York, NY Past, Present, Future Perfect: Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK Zbigniew Rogalski «Air», Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France

Alfredo Jaar can teach about public art and how contemporary art often needs a particular setting much like a great work of fiction.