Sentences with phrase «other essayists»

Other essayists are Gail Windisch, Ellen Paul Denker, Bill North, Kristina Wilson, Karen Herbaugh, and Susan Teller.

Hauerwas and the other essayists are on firmer ground when they write of the importance of holding on to the Christian story, which gives meaning to individual stories and provides «rich resources to make possible friendship between the elderly and, perhaps most important, becoming and remaining friends with ourselves as we age.»

Not exact matches

Anyway, by the time of his death he had probably already achieved as much as he might reasonably have hoped: He had been a certified naval physician, an explorer, a poet, a novelist, an essayist, an ethnographer, a linguist, a sinologist, an aesthetic theorist, and a few other things besides.

Holmes» equally talented father, an innovating physician and essayist, portrayed his son as The Young Astronomer, brilliant but aloof from the lives of others.

When liberal essayist Robert Reich summarizes a conservative policy in his collection of essays The Resurgent Liberal and Other Unfashionable Prophesies, he invariably begins his account with its intellectual roots....

As essayist Katha Pollitt points out, the tendency to ascribe «particular virtues — compassion, patience, common sense, nonviolence — to mothers» is an overdone, and in some ways oppressive, cliché; telling yourself that toilet training a string of two - year - olds is good for your soul may keep you away from other worlds.

The finalists will be presented at the celebration under the Hall of Fame pavilion, surrounded by child essayists, school teachers, other finalists and their family.

Our other U.S. essayist this week, whom we've taken to calling Trey - Ling Spouse, is still fighting her way through, although she is still hopeful that in the end they'll both end up with satisfying careers.

Budd Wilkins is a film critic, essayist, and historian with published work in Slant Magazine, The House Next Door, Film International, Video Watchdog, Not Coming to a Theater Near You and others.

There are other underseen favorites of the year I could champion: the video essayist — turned - director Kogonada's contemplative and utterly sui generis feature debut Columbus, a meditation on the meaning of home and family and the power of architecture — yes, architecture — to affect our everyday lives.

One doesn't need to dig deep into his body of work to see that the late novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace had sincere ambivalence about mass media — his much - heralded 1,079 - page novel, Infinite Jest, features a science fiction conceit where a lethal videotape known as «The Entertainment» is so addictive, its viewers lose interest in anything other than endless repeat viewings of the film.

Your basis ought to be recognized each time the point that you construct, or the information or other data that you utilize, is considerably that of another essayist and not you're claim.

A poet, playwright, essayist, short - story writer, memoirist and novelist, Price bequeathed to us a body of work, including translations of the Gospels and other passages from the Bible, which explored intimately the fraught world of human relationships.

It's the only creative nonfiction conference where you can spend three days surrounded by 150 + other memoirists, lyrical essayists, and longform journalists who are all eager to connect with and motivate one another.

Essayist and naturalist Diane Ackerman (author of A Natural History of the Senses, The Zookeeper's Wife and many other books) tackles this musing — and not merely rhetorical — question in The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us, examining what geologists are calling our current epoch, the Anthropocene, or Human Age.

Over and over again, she and the other contributors stress the importance of reading good work, as well as writing it, and the aspiring poet, novelist, journalist, essayist, creative nonfiction writer — or simply curious reader who relishes good writing — could do no better than to begin with In Fact.

Readers will delight in essays by filmmaker John Waters on Jeff Koons; music critic Greil Marcus on Christopher Wool; novelist Siri Husvedt on Anselm Kiefer; travel writer and essayist Pico Iyer on Takashi Murakami; Pulitzer Prize - winning biographer Mark Stevens on Cy Twombly; and former Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, John Elderfield on Jasper Johns, among many other pairings.

In the 1959 edition of the Paris Review, essayist Patsy Southgate observed that «artists, having an affinity for one another, tend to gather in colonies where they can love and hate each other most conveniently.»

, part of the «Echo of Light» catalogue text, Kirkeby, also a poet and essayist, writes, «To think about, to lose oneself in this / is like long biographically instructive poems / with glimpses of abandoned wind and weather and other visions.»

Yet, throughout his long career as essayist and art critic for The New Yorker, Rosenberg looked for and saw what others did not.

Abbey and Thoreau and other environmental writers or essayists are important because they are what one reads in college and they are part of the environmentalist culture.