Sentences with phrase «of obituary writers»

Kino Lorber has released an official trailer for the documentary titled Obit., about the lives and work of obituary writers.

- Ann Hood, author of The Obituary Writer

Not exact matches

But I would like to highlight one crucial aspect of Nat's body of work that obituary writers in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, and other mainstream media outlets (though not First Things) woefully downplayed: Nat stood steadfastly — sometimes at great professional and personal cost — for the sanctity and equality of human life from conception to natural death.

«He seemed fine to me,» Finchem said a day after Woods offered a grim «no timeline for return» assessment of his status that had many writers penning his career obituary.

When Dan Walker died last week, it was hard for obituary writers not to note that he was one of four Illinois governors over the past five decades who ended up in prison.

Johnson, who previously delved into the worlds of librarians and obituary writers, explains in the opening pages that Lives is not about radiocarbon dating or arcane scientific theory.

Seattle journalist and humor writer Jane Lotter wrote her own obituary, and it begins this way: One of the few advantages of dying from Grade 3, Stage...

Schrader has said that he knows his obituaries will read, «Writer of Taxi Driver,» despite his own idiosyncratic career as a filmmaker.

However, it makes me think of the film The Last Word, which is not a doc but an indie comedy about an obituary writer (played by Amanda Seyfried).

But we're here not to bury Sandler — he's years, if not decades away from a career - long obituary — but to praise him in writer - director Noah Baumbach's (Mistress America, While We're Young, Frances Ha, The Squid and the Whale) latest exploration of love, life, and failure among New York City's social, cultural, and artistic elites, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected).

Not even Fleet Street writers, whose tradition of skewering the deceased in obituaries is legendary (and often admirable in a way), would defend this.

When Joanna Russ, one of the few successful female science - fiction writers, died last year, her obituary in The New York Times referred to her as a writer who helped «deliver science fiction into the hands of the most alien creatures the genre had yet seen — women.»

Ann Hood is the author of several bestselling novels, including The Knitting Circle, The Obituary Writer and Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine, and a memoir, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief.

The May issue features interviews with Nick Harkaway and Ada Palmer; appreciations for Peter Nicholls; obituaries for Philip Kerr, Ahmed Khalid Towfik, and David Bischoff; a column by Cory Doctorow; reports on ICFA, the 2018 Williamson Lectureship, the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards, Norwescon 41, and The Outer Dark Symposium; the 2018 Hugo Awards and 1943 Retro Hugo ballots; the PKD, BSFA, Ditmar, Aurealis, and Kitschies Awards winners;... Read More

The obituary in the New York Times wasn't particularly long or prominently displayed, but something about it drew the attention of writer John Grisham.

Passings We'll collect reactions later today to the sudden death of respected comics and animation writer Dwayne McDuffie — Comic Book Resources has remembrances from more than a dozen industry figures — but I wanted to go ahead and point to a handful of links: The Associated press obituary; a few words from Christopher Irving, accompanied by a beautiful portrait of McDuffie photographed by Seth Kushner on Feb. 13; the origin of Static; and a look at Spider - Man anti-drug PSA comics written by McDuffie.

In POE, a 23 - year old obituary writer and college dropout runs afoul of an evil spirit while on a haunted house assignment and must uncover the common link between (among other things) a string of killings, his own deceased parents, and the strange numbered «code» that obsesses him.

INTERVIEWS Nick Harkaway: A Little Bit Quantum / 12 Ada Palmer: Beyond the Exponential Age / 26 MAIN STORIES / 5 2018 Hugo Awards Ballot • 1943 Retro Hugo Awards • ENMU Special Collections Library Update • Vaughn Wins PKD Award • 2017 BSFA Winners • Groff and Miéville Win Guggenheim Fellowships • 2017 Aurealis Awards Winners • 2017 Kitschies Winners • Ditmar Awards Winners THE DATA FILE / 7 2018 Sturgeon Award Finalists • Prometheus Award Finalists • Greer Wins Pulitzer • Neukom Awards Shortlist • Robinson Named Nebula Awards Toastmaster • Charon's Features Named • Rebellion SFF Commissioning Team • Bradbury Studies NEH Grant • Amazing Stories Returns to Print • LeVar Burton Reads • Mythic Delirium Closes • Publishing News • People & Publishing Continues: Media • Workshop News • World Conventions News • Announcements • Awards News • Financial News • International Rights • Other Rights • Publications Received • Catalogs Received PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8 Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Liz Bourke & Charlotte Cuffe, Thomas Pynchon, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jesmyn Ward, James Tiptree, Jr., Michael Bishop, Tad Williams, and many others SPECIAL FEATURES Commentary: Cory Doctorow: The Engagement - Maximization Presidency / 25 Rainforest Writers Village / 57 Chinese SF New Year Gala / 58 SF in SF with Michael Moorcock / 61 CONVENTIONS 2018 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts / 28 2018 Williamson Lectureship / 31 2018 Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards / 32 Norwescon 41 / 33 The Outer Dark Symposium / 34 LISTINGS Magazines Received: March / 36 Books Received: March / 37 British Books Received: February / 48 Bestsellers / 50 OBITUARIES / 63 Philip Kerr • Ahmed Khalid Towfik • David Bischoff • Appreciation for Peter Nicholls by Neil Gaiman, John Clute, and Jack Dann EDITORIAL MATTERS / 66 Locus • Visitors • This Issue / Next Issue

As the English writer and critic John Russell wrote in Schapiro's New York Times obituary, «his output in print between 1931 and the late 1970s was almost absurdly small in relation to his reputation as both an art historian of the first rank and the most inspiring teacher of his time.»

A former obituary writer for the Daily Telegraph, McEwen creates morbidly humorous works that often address the celebrity - driven nature of the media and its broad impact on contemporary culture, as in his series of enlarged, wall - mounted...

A former obituary writer for the Daily Telegraph, McEwen creates morbidly humorous works that often address the celebrity - driven nature of the media and its broad impact on contemporary culture, as in his series of enlarged, wall - mounted mock - obituaries of living celebrities such as Jeff Koons, Bill Clinton, and Kate Moss.

And that in The New Yorker's obituary for Chantal Akerman, dispersed amongst the list of the filmmaker's notable achievements, there was a story about the time the writer «paid a visit to her Paris apartment and was offered chocolate from Belgium?»

My niece's short - lived career as a «one - time online obituary writer» peaked (and ended) with that shocking pronouncement, because the rest of the family (who you'd think might have wanted the news conveyed a tad more «gently» than on Facebook), had no idea my mother was even sick.

Back in 2010 when Bitcoin was only a fledgling project, a publication by the name of The Underground Economist earned the distinction of being 99Bitcoins» first Bitcoin obituary writer.

Whether a resume comes across as an obituary, commentary or testimony depends on several factors the most important being the writer's awareness of what an effective resume looks