Sentences with phrase «literary landscape with»

Cruz Smith first burst onto the literary landscape with... (more)

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With Two Orphan Vampires, Rollin situates his undead protagonists at the center of a decidedly literary landscape, repurposing the stock figure of the vampire, grown overly familiar to genre aficionados through countless incarnations stretching from Nosferatu to the Twilight franchise, all the better to interrogate the figure's archetypal appeal.

Perish the Day is a riveting new mystery from John Farrow, an author who «brings a literary fiction writer's sensitivity to nuance and feel for landscape to this fine, character - rich thriller with a bang - up finish» (Booklist).

Amidst a literary landscape filled to the brim with zombies, vampires and werewolves, Jones offers an incredibly haunting new menace inspired by Hungarian folklore: The hosszú életek, or «long lived» ones, can take on the appearance and mannerisms of any person at any time.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as «one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years» (Baltimore Sun), with «prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes» (The Boston Globe); The Washington Post called her «the twenty - first - century daughter of Chinua Achebe.»

As Director of Indie Publishing Operations for AuthorBytes, he consults with a diversity of writers, from Amazon # 1 bestsellers to fresh new voices now emerging in today's literary landscape.

She subsequently founded the Sun Rae Agency, with a view to represent authors with provocative, inspiring books that challenge and change the literary landscape.

As the industry reckons with the pending Penguin Random House merger, the increasing dominance of one retailer, growing consolidation among literary agencies and realignment of lists at a number of houses, we'll take a timely strategic view of the publishing landscape to help companies of all sizes operate efficiently, leverage scale to their advantage, and focus on innovations and new business strategies that work.

In a day packed with speakers and panels, bestselling authors, literary agents, publishers and self - publishing experts will explain the publishing landscape, talk you through the options and equip you for success.

1) Literary novels with some sort of magical element (i.e The Night Circus) 2) Multi-cultural literary novels by non-American writers 3) Voice - driven literary novels that shed light on the contemporary modern landscape for protagonists in their 20s or 30s.

J.M.W. Turner (1775 - 1851) has been recognized both as a leading representative of the sublime in landscape painting and a harbinger of the Modernist temperament that would endeavor to do away with exactly such literary influences in art.

His conservatism, and fear of environmental damage to the American wilderness, made him load his later landscape painting with literary and moralizing ideas, which tended to interfere with his art.