Sentences with phrase «like nonfiction»

Today, novelists set themselves apart from the pack by building a platform like their nonfiction counterparts.

For Hachette, which publishes about 1,200 books a year through imprints like Grand Central and Little, Brown, the addition of nine imprints from Perseus will help fill out and balance its publishing program in areas like nonfiction and travel.

In fact, it sure sounded like a nonfiction business book.

Of course, the problem with that is the cover looks like nonfiction, not fiction.

And like the nonfiction reading comprehension questions above, these focus on skills like main idea, inferences, vocab in context and more, too.

If they like nonfiction, I would think of great reads about fascinating people, like West with the Night by Beryl Markham or King of the World by David Remnick.

Next comes Jafar Panahi's Taxi, which carries itself like a nonfiction film but is actually scripted.

Like the nonfiction film, «Devil's Knot» focuses on West Memphis's rush to judgment.

Not exact matches

Business books aren't like novels or even most other forms of popular nonfiction.

Moreover, given the rise of memoir as a literary genre in recent decades, I would see Gioia's list and raise him a series of nonfiction writers whose work is shot through with a profoundly Catholic sensibility — writers like Richard Rodriguez, Annie Dillard, Patricia Hampl, Thomas Lynch, and Barry Lopez.

I want her to know...» If you want a nonfiction account of what happens when fathers encourage daughters to get «in touch» with their sexuality because «it is not so big a deal,» read Hustled: My Journey From Fear to Faith (Westminster / John Knox), Tonya Flynt «Vega's sad tale of what it was like growing up as Larry Flynt's daughter.

If you drilled me down, I'd probably say fantasy, but in reality I read from every genre and literary / nonfiction so just the generic «I like to read» is probably more accurate than trying to get specific.

She can read fiction and nonfiction books about chimps, including stories about researchers like Jane Goodall.

I also like sports and art and historical nonfiction.

Like its predecessor, «Under the Gun» potently combines statistics, expert commentary and personal stories into a well - researched and easy - to - consume piece of nonfiction filmmaking.

A docudrama that in its early scenes feels like a documentary — the co-directors have a nonfiction background, and the actors are actual carnival performers — the film plays out like a small - scale fairy tale.

Like his fellow stand - up comedians - turned -»90s TV stars Tim Allen and Paul Reiser, Seinfeld got a swell salary, a producer's credit, and a chance to pen a bestselling nonfiction book.

Looking over the impressive crop of nonfiction films this year, it seems like the most noteworthy ones were those that collapsed the boundaries between reality and fiction, or passive documentation and active storytelling, or cinema and television.

But before I turn from a Movie Club participant into a Movie Club reader, I'd really like to know what you all thought of how strong a year 2013 was for nonfiction filmmaking.

Dislocation Blues, a short documentary by Ho - Chunk filmmaker Sky Hopinka, chronicled the 2016 Standing Rock protests in images both ravishing and harrowing, recalling the keen eye and purposefully jagged montage of recent nonfiction landmarks like James Longley's Iraq in Fragments or Craig Atkinson's Do Not Resist.

Before then, there were hit music documentaries like «Woodstock» but most other nonfiction films could expect short runs in few theaters before dutiful audiences.

If the film feels like everything and nothing in contemporary nonfiction, it seems entirely a result of its uniquely open and spontaneous evolution.

Narrated by actress Jennifer Lawrence and directed by Toni Myers, this nonfiction piece explores what life is like aboard the orbiting International Space Station.

It's a nonfiction ensemble piece that aims for slice - of - life, which may be part of why it feels like a mess, both in terms of structure and pacing.

«Brandy Burre is Actress,» the surprisingly ostentatious (for nonfiction) title card announces, and so it goes: Burre stars as herself, a Master's - holding former supporting player from «The Wire» who took a break from acting after the birth of her first child, and who now seeks to get back in the game at a moment when her long - term relationship appears to be breaking apart like the dishware.

Teaching nonfiction in this nonfiction unit, isolated from stories like The Outsiders, which can connect to it, guarantees a low return from the reading.

Students often like reading nonfiction less because it's less engaging.

The standards are an especially tough lift for teachers in subjects like science who may have no experience selecting appropriate nonfiction texts or designing writing assignments.

Downloadable tips and templates on key topics like reading nonfiction, vocabulary instruction, and literary terms and definitions.

The Common Core is trying to bridge that gap by bringing nonfiction reading back into schools, in areas like social studies and science.

For example, teachers can choose nonfiction articles for students to practice close reading using skills activities — like highlighting and tagging to cite text evidence — built into each article.»

They spend more time on literacy, engage in more nonfiction writing, conduct collaborative scoring with a common definition of what student success looks like, and they have clear intervention plans for every single student that is in danger of failure.

Built - in nonfiction articles from great partners keep students engaged as they practice close - reading skills activities like highlighting and tagging.

Students will read a variety of fiction and nonfiction texts, accompanied by teacher - created instructional resources as well as supplementary programs like StudySync and Achieve3000.

If this shift sounds like a tough one, Steve and Smokey share exactly what you need to help students read nonfiction content closely and strategically.

The New Common Core standards, a set of reforms that will soon be adopted by most states, talk about nonfiction reading, but that category seems to include more memos, short speeches, brochures, and technical articles than anything like a complete history book.

lists of nonfiction books I'd never heard of, produced by the likes of Publisher's Weekly, NPR, and the New Yorker, and stopping briefly by the business - specific books reviewed by strategy + business plus the December 2012 best - sellers offered up by 800 - CEO - READ, I decided to wander over to Goodreads to see what had shown up in their Choice Awards nonfiction category for 2012.

Although there are thousands of books that address lofty topics like creativity, plot outlines, and the craft of different types of writing, there are relatively few books devoted to helping authors create a system of time management habits and practices to write their books — regardless of the types of fiction or nonfiction book you want to write.

However, given that we have hundreds of fiction authors registered for the event who would like to be able to apply what they are learning, I want to do whatever I can to make this content accessible to both fiction and nonfiction authors.

Natasha reaffirmed that what was true for a fiction writer like Adam is true for nonfiction writers as well: good writers are a pleasure to work with because they're constantly thinking about the process of communicating.

In the course of doing research for a book like Astoria, which my agent has called «historical adventure,» I find myself reading bits and pieces of all sorts of works of nonfiction, as well as explorers» journals and memoirs, history, anthropology and many other eclectic subjects.

But here are 10 nonfiction book club recommendations (in no particular order and all available in paperback) to pitch to your group when you feel like mixing things up.

Partial Bibliography Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (1974, poems) Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974, nonfiction narrative) Holy the Firm (1977, nonfiction narrative) Living by Fiction (1982, non-fiction narrative) Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982, narrative essays) Encounters with Chinese Writers (1984, nonfiction narrative) An American Childhood (1987, memoir) The Writing Life (1989, non-fiction narrative) The Living (1992, novel) Mornings Like This (1995, poems) For the Time Being (1999, non-fiction narrative) The Maytrees (2007, fiction) The Abundance (2016)

Aside from a memoir here or a history book there, nonfiction tends to get overlooked by book clubbers in favor of the likes of Gone Girl and Where'd You Go, Bernadette.

Despite, or maybe because of, my being a nonfiction writer, one whose professional career is spent dealing with facts, I like reading fiction in my spare time.

For nonfiction, a trade book would be a how - to, self - help book, biography, or the like; again, anything that is sold with a typical trade discount to stores.

I tend to keep a book of quotes, something nonfiction & a novel going & like to check in right before bed.

He is seeking quality nonfiction books, and if he likes your pitch, he will ask you to follow up and send him your platform and promotion plan.

My specialties are creative nonfiction, like memoir and personal essay, and self - help and business books.

Remember, when it comes to nonfiction, readers like detailed information.