Sentences with phrase «novel about a journalist»
This will sound counterintuitive, but I thought it was the perfect setting for a novel about a journalist killed in the Iraq War.
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Adam Gopnik — like his pieces on France and the French — writing about Houllebecq (whose new novel is out) and Eric Zemmour (a French TV journalist with a book of diatribe against modern France) in the latest New Yorker, brings up Football: «The result of the new free market in football is that French footballers, like Thierry Henry and Arsene Wenger, have become heroes in North and West London».
June's pick: From journalist - turned - fiction writer Alex Berenson, The Night Ranger (A John Wells Novel) about his hero John Wells, who in this latest installment must rescue kidnapped do - gooders in East Africa.
Gist: Based on the novel by Nick Schou and true story from journalist Gary Webb.Gary Webb, this is about a reporter (Jeremy Renner) who becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California.
In addition to original insights gleaned from Snowden and other real - life sources, Stone and Fitzgerald turned to two books about Snowden: The Snowden Files by British journalist Luke Harding (who co-authored another book that led to the WikiLeaks film, The Fifth Estate); and the fictionalized novel Time of the Octopus by Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, who represents Snowden in Russia.
Heartfelt lessons about bullying and self - esteem are shoehorned into a contrived and predictable narrative structure in this mildly nostalgic coming - of - age drama adapted from a novel by journalist Robert Lipsyte.
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unrated) Action thriller, based on the Stieg Larsson novel, about a computer hacker (Noomi Rapace) who joins forces with a journalist (Michael Nyqvist) to try to crack a sex - trafficking ring, only to end up a fugitive after being accused of murder.
A journalist at the New York Times, Emily Eakin, proudly announced her classics - free education several years ago in an article entitled «More Ado (Yawn) about Great Books,» a shame - free confession that she «graduated without having read for credit «The Odyssey,» «Paradise Lost,» a single play by Shakespeare or a single novel by Jane Austen, George Eliot or Henry James.»
As Gillian Flynn said about being able to write her breakout hit, Gone Girl: «I could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught me that there's no muse that's going to come down and bestow upon you the mood to write.
This is a weekly «novel podcast,» hosted by journalist Jonathan Ancer and sound engineer Dan Dewes, about South African books and the authors who write them.
HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: An all - fronts publicity campaign, augmented by a 15 - city author tour, will ensure fervent interest in best - selling McLain's timely novel about a historic journalist.
Debut novelist Catie Disabato «picks up» where her mentor left off in this faux - journalistic novel about two disappearances, one a Lady Gaga-esque pop star and the other music journalist Cait Taer.
A Pulitzer prize - winning journalist writes a first novel about a murder of three elderly men in the West Virginia hill country.
I think I've mentioned here before how surprised I was when my first novel (Spin, about a journalist who follows a celebrity into rehab) came out and people automatically assumed that I'd based my main character on myself.