Sentences with phrase «new nonfiction»

... I also heartily recommend a new nonfiction book for upper - grade level children called How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate.

As an agent, it takes a lot to get me interested in a new nonfiction project.

Many new nonfiction writers don't even Google their subject to find out how many similar books are out there.

For new nonfiction writers, the best use of your energy is to create a good, solid blog devoted to the subject matter of your book.

EYE ON THE IDITAROD: AISLING»S QUEST, my new nonfiction book, will be released in a couple of weeks.

So, when my friend with a new nonfiction Kindle Single grumbled that Stephen King's new Kindle Single, Guns, bumped his book down a notch on the bestseller list on Amazon, I urged him to blog about it.

In my work, I examine a lot of new nonfiction and I must say that I was hard - pressed to find much wrong with this book or its approach to public speaking.

Our annual Independent Publishing Issue includes information about fifty magazines and five small presses accepting submissions with no reading fees; a profile of poet Kevin Young, author of a new nonfiction book, Bunk, and the new poetry editor of the New Yorker; our second annual 5 Over 50 roundup of debut authors; William Giraldi on James Baldwin; a look at how book advances work; self - publishing advice; writing prompts; and more.

I needed somebody who could publish a work of this magnitude,» says Patricia Cornwell of her new nonfiction work from Amazon Publishing.

It turns out that many of them work best between 10,000 and 35,000 words long — the makings of a whole new nonfiction genre occupying the virgin territory between articles and hardcovers.

A new nonfiction book, Candyfreak chronicles Almond's lifelong passion for candy (especially the discontinued Caravelle bar) as he undertakes a sugar - and nostalgia - fueled exploration of America's confectionary...

In Australia just two years ago, the average price for a new nonfiction book was $ 24.95 and a new fiction book around $ 19.95.

Hopkinson tells a number of stories in her fascinating new nonfiction book Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880 - 1924.

There are even some school districts where teachers have been asked to drop novels altogether to meet the new nonfiction requirements.

No matter: The Tipping Point, as I write, has been on the New York Times nonfiction best - seller list for 230 weeks, Blink for 72 weeks, and Outliers high on the new nonfiction list for 15 weeks.

NEW JOURNALISM AND NEW NONFICTION By Eric Hynes Embedding himself in the production of hybrid film Kate Plays Christine provokes a writer to think about documentary's fresh affinities with a seminal journalistic movement

And, on the «new nonfiction» table at my local book store, I've spotted both the schmaltzy — A Travel Guide to Heaven — and the scholarly — a 700 - page tome by an Ivy League professor, Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion.

Session includes a look at newer nonfiction titles, authors, and formats, as well as online resources.

Her newest nonfiction title, What to Expect When Adopting a Dog was released September 2016.

Not exact matches

The judges curate and select the best new hardcover titles for members from a broad range of genres and offer a mix of both fiction and nonfiction titles, sure to impress even the pickiest and hard to shop for Moms.

«Particularly if it's a nonfiction book, are you taking in new knowledge and sort of attaching [it] to knowledge you have?

«Written in 1960s San Francisco and New York, Didion's collection of essays is not so much a bundle of nonfiction as it is a long, threaded musing on her own life, set to the daunting counterculture tempo of the times,» Wang and Wolfson note.

America's fascination with true crime storytelling has existed for quite some time, with Truman Capote noting in the 1960s that he'd created a new art form (the «nonfiction novel») with In Cold Blood, his best - selling account of the gruesome murder of a Kansas family.

Having read Anthem, Philosophy: Who Needs It, and a good deal of her nonfiction essays first, I came into The Fountainhead expecting a great read but nothing truly new to me.

And the best - selling nonfiction book had nothing to do with he latest recipe or the newest diet; it was (and is) a recent version of the oldest book of all: the Bible.

Men and women in the campus trenches may find delight and provocation in the work (currently number 1 on the New York Times nonfiction best - seller list), but there isn't much in it to help them in practicable ways.

On the one hand, we see a drive toward nonfiction and «new realism,» and on the other, postmodernism's surreal element.

For almost every situation, you will find not only nonfiction works, but also lively novels and poems that help us to see our situation in new ways, and a little online research can easily help you find them.

Hillary Clinton's new book debuted to higher sales than any nonfiction hardcover since 2012, selling over 300,000 copies (including digital sales) in its first week, though that's not quite as high as her first book.

MeiMei Fox is the published author, co-author, ghostwriter, and freelance editor of numerous nonfiction health, wellness, spirituality, and psychology books, magazine articles, and blogs, including New York Times best - sellers Bend, Not Break and Fortytude.

The lovely, meandering synthesis of fiction and nonfiction techniques she achieved in that movie has advanced here to new levels of artistic refinement, not least because her formal explorations have been tethered to a uniquely harrowing real - life story.

But on a day when many in media and entertainment registered objections to new President Donald Trump on social media, nonfiction filmmakers took a more kumbaya stance at the Sundance Film Festival.

On the documentary front, one of the top - grossing and most buzz - worthy nonfiction pictures of the year has been «Bill Cunningham New York» (yes, sans colon), about the famous octogenarian «New York Times» society and fashion photographer of the same name; in fact, directors from David Frankel to Dito Montiel have personally mentioned the movie to me.

The BBC World Service and Sundance Institute are collaborating on a new, nonfiction radio broadcast and podcast series to launch in 2018.

It may not be Wright's best film (that honor likely goes to Atonement) nor is it his most exciting (I'm a huge Hannah stan personally) and it's very far from his lower - tier material (The Soloist, Pan) but Darkest Hour sees the English auteur flexing his muscles in new and exciting ways, turning historical nonfiction into a calculated character study, an intoxicating courtroom drama and an electrifying thriller in its own right.

Into this desensitized journalistic context, self - described media activist Talal Derki launches an explosive assault with Return to Homs, one of a select few nonfiction entries in New Directors / New Films 2014.

13TH will premiere at the New York Film Festival on Friday, September 30, which is the first time a nonfiction work will open the festival.

«Heaven Is For Real» was originally released in 2010 and is still at number 12 on the New York Times paperback nonfiction list.

The book was first released in 2010 and is still number 12 on the New York Times paperback nonfiction bestseller list for the week of Nov. 24.

One of the country's most original nonfiction filmmakers, Bogdan Dziworski, made a comeback in May 2014, when he received a retrospective at the Kraków Film Festival and announced that he was at work on a new film.

The New York premiere of In the Last Days of the City coincides with the 2018 edition of Art of the Real, a showcase of «nonfiction and hybrid filmmaking,» and several titles in the series make good companion pieces.

Ta - Nehisi Coates, a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a nominee for the National Book Award's nonfiction prize, is going full geek in a way that resonates with him the most: writing Marvel's new Black Panther series hitting comic book shelves next spring.

They agreed, «Fulfilling the promise of classic cinema verite, where camera serves as both observer and provocation, this film connected two artists, filmmaker and subject, pushing nonfiction intimacy to bold new places.

Pain & Gain is Bay's on screen adaption of Pete Collins» three - part series of nonfiction articles published in the Miami New Times between 1999 and 2000.

Also at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Sarah Polley's «Stories We Tell» was named best nonfiction film and Bruno Delbonnel received best cinematographer for «Inside Llewyn Davis.»

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library is the latest documentary from 87 - year - old Frederick Wiseman, who won an honorary Oscar last year for his extraordinary contributions to nonfiction cinema.

And in a similarly placed story (on the Times front page) a couple of weeks before Rich's, colleague Pam Belluck reported that a new study in the journal Science had found that «after reading literary fiction, as opposed to popular fiction or serious nonfiction, people performed better on tests measuring empathy, social perception and emotional intelligence — skills that come in especially handy when you are trying to read someone's body language or gauge what they might be thinking.»)

The development of a «taste» for literature — fiction and nonfiction alike — is hardly something we're good at teaching, Not to mention the dilemma about how to teach literacy of the new media that will constitute the bulk of the next generation's «reading.»

Your students will absolutely love this short passage of nonfiction informational text about none other than the highly decorated Drew Brees — the New Orleans Saints quarterback.

And KIPP is working with Common Core, Inc., the non-profit that developed Eureka, to create a new K — 8 English curriculum for KIPP schools that is designed to build student knowledge systematically through the use of high quality works of literature, nonfiction, and informational text.