Sentences with phrase «mystery writer living»

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One of the epigraphs in Paul Mariani's book is from Flannery O'Connor:»... if the writer believes that our life is and will remain essentially mysterious, if he looks upon us as beings existing in a created order to whose laws we freely respond, then what he sees on the surface will be of interest to him only as he can go through it into an experience of mystery itself.

The writer of Ephesians uses the language of courtship and marriage to convey the passion and mystery of Christ's union with the church.12 Yet anticipation of full union with Christ does not deny the reality of inevitable daily conflict between the «old» and the «new» in the life of believers.

Updike presents the reader of his novels and stories with the pseudo — wise men of today's society — with Jimmy, the big Mouseketeer who quotes Socrates; with the neon owl that advertises pretzels; with Ken Whitman, the scientist living in Tarbox who is considered intelligent in his field but who lacks a basic understanding of life; with Bech the writer, honored in direct proportion to the decline of his literary production; with Connor, the efficient, well - trained administrator of the old people's home who fails to comprehend as much of life's mystery as his simple and sometimes senile wards do.

Thirteen years later, the feisty writer and mystery - solver from Cabot Cove is still my go - to on days that need a little constancy and predictability, when real life is playing a bit too fast and loose with my heart.

Jessica Wapner is a freelance writer and author of The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Genetic Mystery, a Lethal Cancer, and the Improbable Invention of a Life - Saving Treatment, which has recently been reissued.

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer - directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.

In Three Billboards, plot twists are equated with the mysteries of human impulse, accounting for the fact that a person's life can change in an instant and it doesn't have to feel like a clever - clever writer casually nudging chess pieces around a board.

While the malleable allegory of the film's events — a woman and her writer husband live in an Edenic country house that spirals into infernal chaos — has fueled both love - or - hate reactions and directorial marketing, I was riveted by the heedless spectacle and totally enveloping film technique, all anchored in Jennifer Lawrence's sometimes baffling commitment to a character driven to distraction by her husband (Javier Bardem), his mystery guests (deliciously entitled Michelle Pfeiffer, Ed Harris), and much, much more.

In real life, Winslet's character grew up to be mystery writer Anne Perry.

Rabin states that the MPDG is «that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer - directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.»

Yet it also goes deeper: as in Ann Hui's equally compelling The Golden Era, the film respects the mystery of the creative process, the obscure correspondences between life and art, whether or not it is important to like a writer to appreciate his / her work — but, ultimately, why it matters for public freedom that writers should be allowed to misbehave in peace.

In his My Year Of Flops entry on Elizabethtown, Nathan Rabin coined the phrase «Manic Pixie Dream Girl» to describe that bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that «exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer - directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.»

Based on a novel by mystery writer Ruth Rendell, Live Flesh begins in flashback with pregnant Isabel Plaza Caballero (Penelope Cruz) giving birth on a Madrid city bus.

Writers Karim Aïnouz — «Love for Sale,» «Madame Satã» Rakhshan Bani - Etemad — «Under the Skin of the City,» «The May Lady» Siddiq Barmak * — «Opium War,» «Osama» Aida Begić * — «Children of Sarajevo,» «Snow» Jeremy Brock — «True Crimes,» «The Last King of Scotland» Jared Bush * — «Zootopia,» «Moana» John Collee — «Tanna,» «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World» Buddhadeb Dasgupta — «The Wrestlers,» «The Red Door» Kenneth Angelo Daurio, Jr. — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «Despicable Me» Luke Davies — «Lion,» «Life» Mohamed Diab — «Clash,» «Cairo 678» Lav Diaz * — «A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery,» «Norte, the End of History» Katie Dippold — «Snatched,» «Ghostbusters» Nelson Pereira dos Santos * — «How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman,» «Barren Lives» Ildikó Enyedi * — «Simon Magus,» «My Twentieth Century» Safi Faye * — «Mossane,» «Lettre Paysanne» Feng Xiaogang — «If You Are the One,» «A World without Thieves» Paz Alicia Garciadiego — «Bleak Street,» «Deep Crimson» Bahman Ghobadi — «Turtles Can Fly,» «A Time for Drunken Horses» Goutam Ghose * — «Shankhachil,» «Paar» Eric Heisserer — «Arrival,» «Lights Out» Barry Jenkins * — «Moonlight,» «Medicine for Melancholy» Alejandro Jodorowsky * — «The Holy Mountain,» «El Topo» Phil Johnston * — «Zootopia,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Kim Ki - duk * — «3 - Iron,» «Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring» Mohammed Lakhdar - Hamina * — «Chronicle of the Years of Embers,» «The Winds of the Aures» Brit Marling — «The East,» «Another Earth» Márta Mészáros * — «Diary for My Children,» «Adoption» Mike Mills — «20th Century Women,» «Beginners» Idrissa Ouedraogo * — «Tilaï,» «Yaaba» Éva Pataki — «The Seventh Room,» «Diary for My Loves» Cinco Paul — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «DespicableMe» Jordan Peele * — «Get Out,» «Keanu» Simon Pegg — «Run Fat Boy Run,» «Shaun of the Dead» Mohammad Rasoulof * — «Manuscripts Don't Burn,» «Goodbye» Eran Riklis * — «Lemon Tree,» «The Syrian Bride» Céline Sciamma — «My Life as a Zucchini,» «Tomboy» Mrinal Sen * — «The Case Is Closed,» «In Search of Famine» Taylor Sheridan — «Hell or High Water,» «Sicario» Sooni Taraporevala — «Mississippi Masala,» «Salaam Bombay!»

Alternately humorous and grotesque — and always surreal — the film mingles aspects of Burroughs's novel with incidents from the writer's own life, resulting in an evocative paranoid fantasy and a self - reflexive investigation into the mysteries of the creative process.

This haunting film from writer - director - actor David Zellner and his brother Nathan is based on the real - life mystery of Japanese woman Takako Konishi.

Well, he has delivered us a gem with «Broken Embraces,» which is a mystery set in the world of filmmaking — sort of — with a blind writer / director, Mateo (Lluís Homar), leading a double life, brought face to face with his past and Lena (Cruz), a woman he and his producer fell in love with on a past production.

He defined it as: «That bubbly, shallow cinematic creature that exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer - directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.»

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Con Lehane is a mystery writer who lives outside Washington, DC.

It seems that more mystery writers will hover around the bestseller lists while more SF / fantasy writers (most recently in the vampire / ghost worlds) would make a living but wade contentedly at mid-list making just enough to go on but not exactly challenge Stephanie or Charlaine.

Mystery Grand Master Lawrence Block maps out the way that mystery writers sustain a long - term career in The Crime of OurMystery Grand Master Lawrence Block maps out the way that mystery writers sustain a long - term career in The Crime of Ourmystery writers sustain a long - term career in The Crime of Our Lives.

When not hiding in the thirteenth century, she lives in Northern California and is a member of California Writers Club, Mystery Writers of America, and Sisters in Crime.

Lana Waite was a mystery writer who grew up in Seattle, studied architecture at the University of Washington, married a navy man, and lived in Northern California.

Warner died at age 89 in 1979, but the Boxcar Children live on with new titles such as The Pizza Mystery, The Canoe Trip Mystery, and The Dinosaur Mystery, written by new writers faithful to Warner's vision.

• Prolific mystery writer Ruth Rendell gives readers a tiny peek into her guarded personal life in an interview with The Independent.

Currently Looking For: Fiction that hits the sweet spot between commercial and literary with interesting settings and a strong narrative voice; mystery (particularly cozies and crossover literary — think Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger), literary thriller, and psychological suspense; and memoir by writers who connect the events of their lives to readers through incredible storytelling, as well as a wide variety of prescriptive and narrative nonfiction and gift books.

AM: I wanted to make a living as a writer and pragmatically if there was a chance to do so — and statistically there isn't — mysteries were a viable market then [the 1980s].

Prolific mystery author Elizabeth Spann Craig blogs about all things relevant to a writer's life, including public speaking, productivity, gaining visibility and connecting with the wider author community.

a genre I graduated from years ago.I credit her with being one of the better writers in this category and Mrs. Hockaday proves that her skills as a story teller have not diminished.Having said that I also feel that the discriminatory practices of the mid to late 19th century in America dictate the motivations of each character in a relatively predictable way... so while the entertainment value is indisputable the «mystery» is no more than the reality of life at the time... nothing memorable or instructive here for me... simply a reminder that the mores of the past rarely survive the scrutiny of the present without some readjustment.

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Return of the Thin Man is a hugely entertaining read that brings back the classic characters created by one of the greatest mystery writers who ever lived.

Now don't mis - understand me, co-op I guess could be done in any genre / game but outside of shooters it doesn't automatically make sense, Alan Wake is a psychological action thriller, set in an open world game where YOU play as a writer who's trying to discover the mystery of what seems to be your latest horror story which you can't even remember for some reason is now coming to life, in a small isolated town; oh and your wife has vanished too = Alan Wake himself IS the story, co-op in this case would be redundant for a story driven type game like Alan Wake since at its core its all about YOU deciding where to go an «unlocking» the plot for YOURSELF.

In 2005, Hammershøi's life and oeuvre was featured in a BBC television documentary, Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershoi, with the British comedian and writer Michael Palin.