Sentences with phrase «literary novelist»

Mr. Cronin, a literary novelist, took her up on it.

Also, literary novelist Jeff Stayton, went on a very long book tour to promote his first novel and he donated Little Libraries to any «book deserts» he ran across throughout the US... those communities that had lost a local bookstore and had no where to turn except Amazon for their books.

One is that many readers remain willing to pay more for books by name - brand authors like King, James Patterson or the literary novelist Anthony Doerr, who squeaks in at No. 20 on the Kindle list.

Tim Winton is Australia's most decorated and beloved literary novelist.

He calls him a member of that «perennially threatened species, the American literary novelist.»

I think of myself as a literary novelist although I'm one of those unfortunates whose work isn't quite so easily classified although my most recent novel, Milligan and Murphy, which was inspired by the writings of Samuel Beckett, is most definitively a literary novel.

The thing about being a self - published literary novelist is that everyone looks down on you.

Amis certainly gained a reputation for having confidence in his own writing in 1994, demanding (and getting) an unprecedentedly large advance for his novel The Information in the process of which he replaced his publisher Random House and his agent, Pat Kavanagh, wife of another acclaimed literary novelist, Julian Barnes.

Jobs found her when he was 27 — turns out she is the acclaimed literary novelist Mona Simpson (read our review of her 2000 novel Off Keck Road).

And for the record, there are also literary novelists (some even alive) who have moved millions of copies.

Writers of commercial fiction who wish to soar out of category, as well as literary novelists who want to learn how to make powerful story principles work for them, will find the Breakout Novel Intensive 2.0 an idea - packed and career enriching experience.

Meghan Ward: More and more literary novelists, though, are turning to genre fiction.

I'm a book reviewer myself and so I do understand that there are only so many hours in the day but I've tried to cultivate friendships with fellow (I use the term loosely) literary novelists hoping they might consider reviewing my books and all bar one begged off playing the Beckett card (as one put it, she would find it «very difficult to appreciate all the nuances of [the] book») and that left me with my fellow (again, I use the term loosely) self - publishers all of whom (so far) have run screaming for the hills.

It's a favorite trick among literary novelists: use a classic work of literature as a launching pad for an...

They champion the work of short story writers, poets, literary novelists, memoirists and others who face challenges in the publishing industry.

«On the one side of the divide are literary novelists, whose bases of operation are MFA programs and literary journals.

«We are literary novelists, Pulitzer Prize - winning journalists, and poets; thriller writers and debut and midlist authors.

Claude Forthomme and Porter Anderson: If you are relentlessly optimistic, you might argue that the dominance of pop genre fiction puts a certain pressure on literary writers to be harder on themselves, to be less self - indulgent — and quite a few literary novelists are guilty of self - indulgence.

«[A] remarkably rich series... As it evolves, it becomes clear that Leon deserves her place not only with the finest international crime writers (Michael Dibdin and Henning Mankell, for example) but also with literary novelists who explore the agonies of the everyday (Margaret Drabble and Anne Tyler, among others).»

-LSB-...] Jane Friedman's blog, a couple of agents address whether self - publishing is a good fit for literary novelists.

Not exact matches

King is a great novelist and deserves more literary praise than he receives.

More novelists ought to master this literary strategy.

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.

A beautifully written piece of literary criticism that mines the depth of the connection between O'Connor's achievement as a novelist and her quest, in imitation of the desert fathers, for aloneness with God.

If the question were expanded to include novelists — the most sociological of major art forms — a well - informed literary critic might offer a few names such as Ron Hansen or Alice McDermott, authors whose subject matter is often overtly Catholic.

Today, if any living Catholic novelist or poet has a major reputation, that reputation has not been made by Catholic critics but by the secular literary world, often in spite of their religious identity.

Awarded the Nobel Prize in 2003, South African novelist J. M. Coetzee has long been a fierce if idiosyncratic moral voice in contemporary literary circles.

Hers is a more than simply literary canon, for it not only includes poets and novelists, but philosophers, theologians, historians and critics.

The contributions made to black women's literary tradition by the pioneering folklorist / storyteller Zora Neale Hurston and contemporary novelist Alice Walker are assessed.

The novelist and literary theorist Umberto Eco has called Disneyland «America's Sistine Chapel,» the place where the faithful must flock, pilgrim - like, at least once a year.

The pool boy, his muscular prose rippling with the upper body strength of 10 novelists, has an inexplicable contempt for men who do not hurl themselves into the literary whirlpool.

The award - winning British novelist became the first literary Bad Mother for her memoir A Life's Work, which chronicled the «abasements» of pregnancy and «the sacking and slow rebuilding of every corner of my private world that motherhood has entailed.»

● Conrad - if you're a literary fan, you might have heard of the traveler / novelist Joseph Conrad.

D J Taylor is a literary biographer and novelist.

So again, going back to the literary metaphor, he may have had a following based on his work as a cinematic novelist (his series Crime Story was also extremely dense) and this following, of which you may or may not be part of, isn't interested in his newfound exploration of cinematic poetry.

It's a mild disappointment, but still more agreeable viewing than Alex Ross Perry's adeptly abrasive Listen Up Philip (Eureka, 15), in which Jason Schwartzman's young, chronically unpleasant New York novelist rails against all and any who might obstruct, oppose or simply ignore his perceived genius, bypassing his out - of - patience girlfriend (a glowing, film - crowning Elisabeth Moss) and stopping only at his own cross-generational foil: the Philip Roth - style literary titan (Jonathan Pryce) who provided the very model for his self - styled misanthropy.

It's a bold scenario for a debut novelist with everything to prove, and Halliday is knowingly reckless in her invocation of the literary greats.

Nicholas Meyer, the popular novelist who contrived the meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud in The Seven Per Cent Solution, and Holmes, Bernard Shaw, and a Jack the Ripperâ $ «style murderer in The West End Horror, has followed colleague Michael Crichton into the movie - directing racket; and I must say that I, no admirer of his thin and opportunistic literary conceits, am pleasantly surprised at the likability of his premià ¨ re effort.

However you consume them, the behind - the - scenes stories, from John Barry's intentions (he said he thought of it as a love story) to Martin Amis's motivation for taking the script - writing job (apparently he was a sci - fi buff before becoming a novelist famous for literary social satire) to Kirk Douglas's behaviour on set (Amis later said that Douglas «wanted to be naked,» and very much wanted Fawcett to be naked with him), are delicious.

Before he became the world's second most famous spy novelist, literary master John le Carre famously disliked the world's most famous spy (who never actually seems to spy much).

Based on the novel by Joe Gores, the story, which is set in the 1920s, centers on detective novelist Dashiell Hammett (Frederic Forrest, well cast), who early in his career gets involved in a mystery that reportedly shaped his literary works and perhaps even his personal life.

You often describe your films as literary — the characters in Reprise, for instance, are novelists, and Oslo, August 31st was inspired by Le feu follet.

While literary editor Terry Crabtree still has the bad little boy smirk common to all Downey characters, his own issues are downright mild compared to Michael Douglas» Grady Tripp, a 50 - year - old professor, semi-professional pot - smoker, and neurotically stricken one - hit - wonder novelist, as well as Tobey Maguire's James Leer, an emotionally constricted budding author and semi-pathological liar.

A novelist himself on a much smaller scale, Lipsky pitched to Rolling Stone that he profile Wallace and try to understand who this junk - food - loving literary wunderkind with pop culture tastes really was.

4 - C.S. Lewis: A novelist, poet, academic medievalist, literary critic and essayist, Lewis is known for both his fictional and non-fictional pieces.

He confesses that his literary ambitions were not actually to be a novelist, but simply to be able to tell people at parties that he is a novelist.

The Milwaukee Public Library's Wisconsin Writers Wall of Fame pays tribute to a spectrum of literary talents — novelists, poets, journalists, playwrights, historians — whose work has been influenced by their life and experiences in Wisconsin.

He's the novelist and film maker who co-founded Red 14 Films a literary trailer production company that creates live action cinematic book trailers to capture the plot, voice and tone of a story without compromising the reading experience.

Five Notable Pakistani Authors While Indian authors have been the darlings of the literary world for the past couple of decades, Pakistani novelists writing in English have remained in the shadows — but no longer.

The literary world is littered with excellent novelists who've delivered 3 - 4 books to trad publishers, and still haven't made enough money to quit the day job.