Sentences with phrase «living at their fiction»

But just as if you don't need a buggy whip to start your car, you don't need an agent to sell a book, or a traditional publisher to make a living at fiction writing.

The only way these writers made a living at their fiction writing was write bestsellers.

Most don't even have careers in the first place because they aren't making a living at their fiction.

Not exact matches

At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.

While her book at times threatens to become a kind of Answer Key to Waugh's novels, which themselves, in her hands, almost resemble mere romans clef, she does convincingly show that Waugh always drew from his own life in his fiction.

Reinforcing the fact that this book is historical fiction and not a precise biography, my friend Dalia Mogahed (executive director of the Center for Muslim Studies at Gallup and member of President Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships) rightfully noted in her review that this «is not a book recounting Muhammad's life, but a beautiful story inspired by it... There was editorial license and creativity, and while many of the words and events have been recorded in authentic sources, many have not...»

McCarthy emerges in her fiction as a moralist, and friends who recognized themselves in her work (Philip Rahv in The Oasis, Edmund Wilson in A Charmed Life, her Vassar classmates in The Group) naturally bridled at her judgments.

In the 1970s and 1980s, his essays and fiction regularly took withering aim at the hypocrisies and absurdities of colonialism, and likewise at apartheid - era life in his native South Africa (this included, incidentally, a thoughtful, if critical, review of Dispensations, Richard John Neuhaus's own book about South Africa).

Having avoided contemporary fiction for most of my adult life, I at first could not believe what English prose had been reduced to, let alone that any reader could find the book's substantive claims remotely plausible.

While the terror at the power and indifference of nature can be found in her other books, and is the foundation insight in Living by Fiction, the difference here is that she has claimed a place with others.

Supporters of the Bible bristled at this claim because fiction was considered paltry, hardly what you would stake your life on.

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This pushed the possibility of extracting at least part of the «code of life» back to the time of the dinosaurs — a case of science catching up with the fiction it had spawned in Jurassic Park.

The power to control living things and objects from a distance is a popular supernatural talent in science fiction and fantasy: Witches fling spells at foes and X-Men send chairs and tables flying with telekinesis, for example.

«This is science fiction coming to life,» says Daniel Weiss at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, who works on lung regeneration.

The popular TV series «CSI» is fiction, but every day, real - life investigators and forensic scientists collect and analyze evidence to determine what happened at crime scenes.

Hannah is a Canadian Naturopathic Practitioner currently living in France and working extremely hard at conquering the world and writing her first Young Adult fiction novel.

At least my dating life... 1 This story, though it contains flecks of non-fiction is technically — and properly — categorized in the fiction genre.

About Blog This blog and radio podcast exists at the intersection of forensic science fiction and real - life CSI work.

But John's command does push the film further into the old science - fiction, doomsday territory of films like Five; The World, the Flesh and the Devil; and Night of the Living Dead, where the only way in the world the races could commingle was at its end.

Sarah Fiction and her single mother live in West Crockdale, where at times, it seems like a stop between two worlds.

Tracy is an outsider at school, but the compulsively fun Brooke introduces her to new way of living — even if it ultimately proves too nutty to sustain — and helps inspire her to write some damn good fiction.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

In the realm of science - fiction, exploring our own socio - political environment through the lens of a foreign or futuristic society is commonplace; however, exploring merely human nature and philosophical questions of life is less common, at least as a stand - alone theme.

At the time, we only had the Bible - quoting hit man Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) as evidence of a philosophical outlook — his ultimate disavowal of «the life» at Pulp Fiction's trick non-ending seemed a fairly apt demonstration of man's (and therefore a filmmaker's) capacity to reject violence and find inner nourishmenAt the time, we only had the Bible - quoting hit man Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) as evidence of a philosophical outlook — his ultimate disavowal of «the life» at Pulp Fiction's trick non-ending seemed a fairly apt demonstration of man's (and therefore a filmmaker's) capacity to reject violence and find inner nourishmenat Pulp Fiction's trick non-ending seemed a fairly apt demonstration of man's (and therefore a filmmaker's) capacity to reject violence and find inner nourishment.

2002 — John C. Reily — Chicago, Gangs of New York, The Hours, The Good Girl 2002 — Leonardo DiCaprio — Catch Me If You Can, Gangs of New York 2003 — Sean Penn — Mystic River, 21 Grams 2003 — Johnny Depp — Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Pirates of the Caribbean 2004 — Mark Ruffalo — Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Collateral, 13 Going on 30, We Don't Live Here Anymore 2004 — Jamie Foxx — Ray, Collateral, Breakin» All the Rules 2005 — Terrence Howard — Hustle & Flow, Four Brothers, Get Rich or Die Tryin» 2005 — Vince Vaughn — Wedding Crashers, Be Cool, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Thumbsucker 2006 — Leonardo DiCaprio — The Departed, Blood Diamond 2006 — Will Ferrell — Stranger Than Fiction, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 2007 — Michael Cera — Juno, Superbad 2007 — Phillip Seymour Hoffman — Charlie Wilson's War, The Savages, Before the Devil Knows Your Dead 2008 — Robert Downey Jr. — Iron Man, Tropic Thunder, Charlie Bartlett 2008 — Daniel Craig — Quantum of Solace, Defiance 2009 — George Clooney — Men Who Stare At Goats, Up in the Air, Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 — Robert Downey Jr. — Sherlock Holmes, The Soloist

It asks the same question that lies at the heart of every post-apocalyptic fiction: «Am I willing to do unspeakable things in order to survive and if so, will I have anything left to live for?»

The slate includes a number of familiar names, most notably «Simon Killer» filmmaker Antonio Campos, who will return to the festival with «Christine» (a narrative feature about TV reporter Christine Chubbuck, who killed herself live on - air in 1974; interestingly enough, the Sundance slate also includes a Chubbuck - centric documentary, «Kate Plays Christine,» a new feature from director Robert Greene that looks to blend fact and fiction in ways similar to his previous documentary, «Actress») and «This is Martin Bonner» director Chad Hartigan, who will debut his «Morris from America» at the festival.

It's a comedy with Lilliputian sight gags that treat its science - fiction scenario lightly, at least for the first hour, until life grows darker and darker.

Carpenter is responsible for at least six classics that transcend the horror and science - fiction genres» supposed low - brow pleasures, including The Thing, Escape from New York, They Live, Starman, Christine, and most notably, Halloween.

A great mix of old and new cinematic gold, this year's lineup includes Ildikó Enyedi's Berlinale Golden Bear - winner On Body and Soul; Mrs. Fang, Wang Bing's unflinching document of an elderly woman in her final days, which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno; the North American premiere of Katharina Wyss's powerful debut feature Sarah Plays a Werewolf, about a woman who channels her fears into theater; Govinda Van Maele's fiction feature debut Gutland, featuring Phantom Thread's Vicky Krieps; the U.S. premiere of Slovenian director Rok Biček «s The Family, a compassionate portrait of a young man's life over the course of 10 years; and experimental artist Bertrand Mandico's exhilarating, gender - bending Wild Boys.

The incident sounds like something out of the movie, which all goes to show that life is at least as strange as fiction.

Taking the hybrid docu - fiction method he explored in his previous features At the Edge of Russia and Fuck for Forest to its limits, Marczak recruited a trio of Polish 20 - somethings to act out versions of themselves as they roved their way around the Warsaw party scene, the director's camera following them in real life.

Spike Lee's documentary about Hurricane Katrina's indelible impact on the entire nation placed him beside Jonathan Demme, Oliver Stone and Martin Scorsese as American filmmakers who can effortlessly excel as much at true - life cinema as fascinating fiction.

Because the preposterous life story of Tonya Harding — from 4 years old on to her celebrity boxing stint — is too unbelievable not to chuckle or even laugh hard at; it might as well be a fiction except it actually happened.

ARRIVAL Paramount Pictures Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B Director: Denis Villeneuve Written by: Eric Heisserer based on Ted Chiang's short fiction «Story of Your Life» Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker Screened at: AMC Empire, NYC, 11/7/16 Opens: November 11, 2016

As crazy as it sounds, many a film has been booed at Cannes including some highly revered works given the Palme d'Or like Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, and The Tree of Life.

Here at Fiction Factory we just finished editing on RUNNING IN THE DARK, in which film scholar Glenn Erickson tells the fascinating story behind Jules Dassin's noir masterpiece NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950), starring Richard Widmark as an American low - life racketeer literally running out of luck in London.

But by and large, this sequel feels like bad fan fiction come to life, adopting a superficial similarity to what it is imitating, but at every step of the way betraying a fundamental misunderstanding of what made the first tick.

Highlighting CUP's innovative new digital resources to help bring GCSE fiction and non-fiction to life in the classroom, the webinar will include plenty of practical suggestions for using video, audio and gaming in the classroom to engage English students and help prepare them for success at GCSE, drawing on content produced by CUP — created by teachers for teachers and tried and tested by students.

As the first Artist in Residence at the American School in Japan, Alan spent six weeks teaching historical fiction - writing to middle school students in Tokyo, and he was the Thurber House Children's Writer in Residence in 2011, living and writing in James Thurber's attic for a month.

Literary agent Julie Gwinn of The Seymour Agency most recently served as Marketing Manager for the Christian Living line at Abingdon Press and before that served as Trade Book Marketing Manager and then Fiction Publisher for the Pure Enjoyment line at B&H Publishing Group, a Division of LifeWay Christian Resources.

Established Professional Fellowships of $ 6,000 each and Emerging Artist Fellowships of $ 3,000 each are given annually to Delaware poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers who have lived in Delaware for at least one year prior to application and who are not enrolled in a degree - granting program.

In tracing the evolution of Joyce's art, Bowker also hints at the dark recesses of the artist's psyche, defending his psycho - reading of Joyce's fiction as the only way to plumb the turbid inner life of an often mystifying man.

I live in Toronto, Ontario and make my living writing science fiction and fantasy; I also review books and teach writing online at UCLA.

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 AbundanceFiction (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 Abundancefiction 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 Abundancefiction narrative) The Living (1992, novel) Mornings Like This (1995, poems) For the Time Being (1999, non-fiction narrative) The Maytrees (2007, fiction) The Abundancefiction narrative) The Maytrees (2007, fiction) The Abundancefiction) The Abundance (2016)

Sitting uneasily at the junction of thriller, mystery, horror, and literary fiction, Elizabeth Scott's Living Dead Girl presents a world so closed off and self - contained it leaves no room for slow reveals or plot twists.

Unfortunately, writers of short fiction (and fiction in general) have rarely been able to make a living at it.

It was at a time in Hawkins» life that she says she was «very bad at following things through» and didn't have a lot of confidence in herself as a fiction writer.

With a sound that's rather like a BBC radio program, it's for those who enjoy literary fiction and who also want some peeks behind the scenes at their favorite authors» lives.