Sentences with phrase «of nonfiction essays»

There are not many fiction authors I love more than Lorrie Moore, but her latest offering is an unexpected collection of nonfiction essays and criticism that have appeared in an array of publications over the past three decades.

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.

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According to research conducted at the University of Toronto, study participants who read short - story fiction experienced far less need for «cognitive closure» compared with counterparts who read nonfiction essays.

«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.

Author of books: Atmospheres of Mars and Venus (1961, nonfiction) Planets (1966, nonfiction, with Jonathan Norton Leonard) Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966, nonfiction, with Iosif S. Shklovskii) Planetary Exploration (1970, nonfiction) Planetary Atmospheres (1971, nonfiction, with Tobias C. Owen and Harlan J. Smith) U.F.O.'s: A Scientific Debate (1972, with Thornton Page) The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973, nonfiction) Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1973, nonfiction) The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (1977, nonfiction) Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record (1978, nonfiction) Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (1979, nonfiction) Cosmos (1980, nonfiction) Comet (1985, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Contact (1985, novel) Nuclear Winter (1985, nonfiction) A Path where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race (1990, nonfiction, with Richard P. Turco) The Demon - Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996, essays) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are (1992, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994, essays) Billions and Billions (1996, essays) The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006, nonfiction, posthumous, with Ann Druyan)

Each month we will be publishing your stories of change, of revelation: your creative nonfiction, your poems, your photo essays and digital art.

A remarkable nonfiction essay on golden rules and grand intentions and oil booms that do not pay off for everyone, The Overnighters is a rich and troubling documentary highlight of the year.

But it's still far below the recommended levels — the proportion of nonfiction books read independently varies from 13 percent to 31 percent based on gender and grade level — though the survey doesn't capture articles, essays, or other informational reading that students may be assigned in various classes.

In grades 6 - 12, even within the literature category, more of the reading will be «literary nonfiction,» including journalism and essays.

In terms of nonfiction, he's interested in cookbooks, pop culture, humor, essay collections, and blog - to - book ideas.

Open to all individuals, we want fiction, essays, poetry, critical studies, creative nonfiction, comic strips and on and on and on that delve into these facets of identity.

Folding the Red into the Black is a book - length nonfiction essay by one of America's bestselling novelists, Walter Mosley; an alternative political manifesto in which he proposes to throw off «bureaucratic» demands in order «to praise and raise humanity to its full promise.»

Its policy is to publish poetry, short fiction, essays, creative nonfiction, memoir, essay reviews, nature - writing, translated work, literary journalism, and other autobiographical, historical, religious and scientific writing of literary distinction.

In terms of nonfiction, he's interested in Cookbooks, Pop Culture, Humor, essay collections, and blog to book ideas.

For the purposes of this fellowship, creative nonfiction is defined as literary journalism, memoir, reportage, criticism, or the lyric essay.

I've always been a kind of omnivorous reader, devouring fiction, nonfiction, narrative essays, short stories, books about science — you name it.

The editors invite submissions of fiction, short plays, poetry, photo essays, and literary nonfiction in traditional and experimental styles.

If you've ever been told to «show, don't tell» and wondered how, this is the book for you (and all writers of fiction, creative nonfiction, memoir and essays).

Creative nonfiction essays of no more than 5,000 words on any subject, are eligible for consideration for this award, whose winner receives $ 250 and publication in Lunch Ticket, the literary and art journal produced by the MFA community of Antioch University Los Angeles.

You will explore the parameters and promises of creative nonfiction and how the particular conventions of the flash essay can be a rich source of inspiration.

Creative nonfiction essays of no more than 5,000 words on any subject, are eligible for consideration for this award, whose winner receives $ 250 and publication in

Some of today's most influential young adult authors come together in this highly personal nonfiction collection of original essays, poems, and letters, each a first - hand account that ultimately strives to inspire hope.

River Teeth is a biannual journal combining the best of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays and memoir, with critical essays that examine the emerging genre and that explore the impact of nonfiction narrative on the lives of its writers, subjects, and readers.

I'm sitting in front of a computer in the Center for Literary Publishing reading creative nonfiction essays that have been submitted for publication.

An online literary magazine and sister organization to YesYes Books, Vinyl offers a glorious array of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, essay, reviews, and visual art to more than 70,000 readers in 170 countries.

Creative nonfiction — especially essay and memoir — are uniquely suited to humanize the people who exist only as caricatures in the minds of readers who don't know anyone like them in real life.

You've edited two anthologies of short creative nonfiction essays, which are often short memoir pieces.

Send your fiction, nonfiction, or essay, but be certain to specify which genre your work falls into at the top of your manuscript.

Book reviewers, given their title, generally review novels, short story collections, nonfiction, biographies, memoirs, essay collections, and just about any bound set of...

There are many types of nonfiction: narrative nonfiction, creative nonfiction, articles, blog posts, and essays.

Fans of Zadie Smith's novels may be less familiar with her forays into nonfiction, which often take the form of essays for The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.

Novelist Patchett, who gained many new readers with her memoir Truth & Beauty, returns to the nonfiction form with this collection of essays, which explore «her deepest commitments: to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband.»

So for my last book, Underground Airlines, the nonfiction included several histories of slavery (especially Edward Baptist's 2014 The Half Has Never Been Told, various histories of the Civil Rights movement, Ta - Nahesi Coates's brilliant Atlantic essay «The Case for Reparations» and Ted Conover's devastating Harper's piece about slaughterhouses, «The Way of All Flesh.»

This is certainly true for the essay, but it is also true, I think, for classic nonfiction in general, be it Thucydides or Pascal or Carlyle, which follows an organizing principle that can be summarized as «tracking the consciousness of the author.»

You don't have to read the essays in Something to Declare, Julia Alvarez's first book of nonfiction, in any...

Hilary Weston Writers» Trust Prize for Nonfiction The prize is awarded for literary excellence in the category of nonfiction, which includes, among other forms, personal or journalistic essays, history, biography, memoirs, commentary, and criticism, both social and political.

These thought - provoking works of narrative nonfiction, memoir, and a graphic novel in essays portray places in decline or busy reinventing themselves; ask where we are and where we might be heading in terms of jobs and the economy; and reveal what it's like to immigrate to twenty - first - century America.

The nonfiction or informational part of Shunned (and many of the other essays in this collection, including The Brown Study by Richard Rodriguez, Mixed - Blood Stew by Jewell Parker Rhodes, and Delivering Lily by Philip Lopate) is personal and anecdotal.

We're open to all types of creative nonfiction, from immersion reportage to personal essay to memoir.

A journal combining the best of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays & memoir, with critical essays that examine the emerging genre & that explore the impact of nonfiction narrative on the lives of its writers, subjects, & readers.

Family Stories from the Attic is an anthology of essays, creative nonfiction, and poetry inspired by family letters, objects, and archives.

The variety of these publications are usually in the following different types: fictions / novels, short experiences, poems, essays, takes on, nonfictions.

The bunch of these publications have been in the following classes: fictions / novels, short stories, poems, essays, plays, nonfictions.

We're looking for novels, memoir, creative nonfiction, hybrid works, and story, essay, and poetry collections of exc...

Whether you are writing a nonfiction book, novel, or essay, you've come to the right place for proofreading service if you need any of the following: a hard edit of your manuscript content; help formatting your dissertation, thesis, journal article, or proposal; tips about how to cite sources correctly; and more.

Phillip Lopate's nonfiction books include essay collections (Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, Portrait of My Body); film criticism... read more

Founded in 1999, River Teeth combines the best of creative nonfiction, including narrative reportage, essays, and memoirs, as well as critical essays that examine the genre and that explore the impact of nonfiction narrative on the lives of its writers, subjects, and readers.

Each issue of Under the Gum Tree includes seven to ten original nonfiction stories and personal essays, one photo essay, and one cover artist whose work is also featured throughout the interior pages.

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