Sentences with phrase «many literary»

There's even a dedicated league — New York Media Softball League — where literary players compete.

Works on which you're able to obtain a copyright fall into eight categories: literary works; musical works; dramatic works; pictorial, graphic and sculptural works; sound recordings; pantomimes and choreographic works; audiovisual works; and architectural works.

For example, Dufu recently had a situation with her literary agent when discussing the paperback copy of her book, «Drop The Ball.»

And then, «Who is the literary agent, and who is the expert on what resonates with women [here]?»

For example, software may be registered as a literary work; maps as pictorial, graphic and sculptural works; and a children's slide as an architectural work.

I've always tried to welcome ideas regardless of how commercial they might be, and my literary agent is very supportive of that.

Fred Benenson set up a Kickstarter with the goal of translating all 6,438 sentences of the literary classic Moby Dick into Japanese Emoji characters, those charming miniature smiley faces and ideograms we can't stop sprinkling our texts with.

Essentially, a copyright protects literary, musical, dramatic, artistic and other qualifying creative works.

However, its features today are much wider; and if you go for a Premium version, you'll have your personal literary editor, living in your laptop.

«There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall,» English literary critic Cyril Connolly declared seventy something years ago.

She worked for the Economist in London and later as a special projects editor at an online literary publication.

«We started talking about doing a school bus,» Spade remembers, «because obviously it's Warby, it's glasses, we're celebrating the literary life and learning.»

Too many business owners write professional bios that are the literary equivalent of sleeping pills.

Allen Lau's startup, Wattpad, markets itself as the YouTube of e-books and counts literary icon Margaret Atwood among its supporters.

one colleague asked with a meaningful look that suggested high - fiving, back - slapping workplaces are great fodder for literary satire but less - than - ideal environments to actually work in.

A machine in Japan almost won a literary prize for a full length novel it wrote — which it chose to end with the sentence, «The computer, placing priority on the pursuit of its own joy, stopped working for humans.»

Warby's founders were deliberate in creating the brand identity even before Spade and Sperduti showed up; it's a kind of literary - inspired, conscientious cool.

He immediately said, «no» but I, along with my literary agent, Tris Coburn, shamelessly pursued him to change his mind and he agreed.

«The cheapest show is $ 3.8 million an episode,» CAA TV literary agent Peter Micelli said at a panel last year, as reported by Variety's Andrew Wallenstein.

For a decade author JT LeRoy captivated the literary world with his sordid stories of his childhood.

So which titles have the literary world chattering this summer?

This documentary takes a look behind Albert's incredible creation of a literary legend.

There are now digital publishers, «hybrid» publishers, «assisted self - publishers,» and even literary agencies acting as publishers.

Even literary agencies have jumped in.

There are many literary techniques and a countless amount of examples, I'm simply serving up this particular one to show you a singular instance of a writer using them to turn a seemingly simplistic story into a extraordinarily memorable and highly controversial work of art.

It's the same Darwinian economics that makes it difficult for an aspiring talent scout or literary agent to make money.

Unless you can sign up a hot college draft pick or persuade John Grisham to switch agents, it may be years before your literary agency or sports management firm can generate enough revenue to cover the cost of recruiting and servicing your clients — much less make a profit.

This sumptuous «literary landmark» — located on Royal Street in the French Quarter — was once frequented by writers such as Truman Capote and William Faulkner.

And fifteen years ago when I wrote my first manuscript, that's where my query letters to literary agents went to die.

Instead of dryly asking local businesses if they wanted to buy ad space, he impressed upon businesses how important the literary magazine was to the creative contingent of the school.

Kenna's ability to get local businesses to buy ad space in his high school's literary magazine and his ability to get some of Hollywood's hottest celebrities to climb the tallest peak in Africa come from the same part of Kenna's personality: his ability to talk to and connect with almost anybody.

The department this week issued a note to local regulators to increase scrutiny over inappropriate online entertainment content, especially illegally downloaded footage and shows and clips that distort classic art and literary works.

Powerful New York??? based literary agent Andrew Wylie has unveiled his own e-book imprint, Odyssey Editions.

-- Mark Twain, author and literary icon Twain got it right; we can not predict life.

Several years ago they published a study in the influential journal Science that showed reading literary fiction was linked with an improved ability to better read fine emotional cues on people's faces.

Why do they make time in their tight schedules for literary classics or classics in the making?

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

President Obama's summer reading list is full of literary fiction.

As that article made its way around the web, it attracted the attention of a literary agent who encouraged me to write a book.

Before coming to Business Insider as assistant managing editor, Lyndsay worked for several years in book publishing, most recently in the literary department of ICM Partners.

The conspicuous difference is that Thiel — a libertarian, gay Christian — espouses views that are far harder to anticipate, and he has earned his pulpit largely through commercial rather than literary or scholarly masterworks.

No, this isn't a new literary - based FPS.

Writing books and living in a castle may seem like a literary fanatic's fairy tale, but for Angela Lauria, this fantasy is her reality.

This year's winners range from an experimental literary puzzle game all the way to editing software that lets you create living photographs.

The IRS sees a nonprofit as charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering amateur sports, or preventing cruelty to children or animals.

I meet with the community team at least once a week to brainstorm about ways we can connect with users, like sponsoring a literary event or organizing meetups for Tumblr users around the world.

The distributor of Woody Allen's film Midnight in Paris could get dinged by the literary icon known as Pappy.

Their efforts remind me of how important innovation is in America, whether it's literary or scientific in nature.

That sounds like a lot of money, but it covers payments to speakers» bureaus (bureaus typically receive 10 percent to 40 percent for any speeches they book), literary agents, and other organisms in the professional speakers» ecosystem.

For licenses for classic, literary - based characters like those Schylling pursues, royalty rates range from 8 % to 12 %.