Sentences with phrase «recent works of nonfiction»

We'll examine recent works of nonfiction that are innovating the genre to try to learn from some new techniques involving collage, lyricism, and tone.

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Moreover, given the rise of memoir as a literary genre in recent decades, I would see Gioia's list and raise him a series of nonfiction writers whose work is shot through with a profoundly Catholic sensibility — writers like Richard Rodriguez, Annie Dillard, Patricia Hampl, Thomas Lynch, and Barry Lopez.

It now transpires that McKay, a Saturday Night Live graduate who is no stranger to political satire, viewed The Other Guys as a slapstick allegory for the recent financial crisis and was working on the movie when he first read Michael Lewis's nonfiction book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, an account of the people who predicted (and profited from) the crash of 2007 - 8.

Most of those were selective - enrollment schools in CPS, including Skinner North Classical School, where, on a recent day this month, fifth - graders were working on sixth - grade material in social studies, weaving in the literacy goals and nonfiction text of the Common Core standards.

In one of the finest nonfiction works to appear in recent years, Phillip Hoose describes the fate of the Ivory - billed Woodpecker, a bird so beautiful and awe - inspiring it was called the Good God or Lord God bird after the exclamations of those who first saw...

And for those interested in seeing adjustments in recent years of the shares of ebooks, not only in children's and YA work but also in adult fiction and nonfiction, Walter's presentation included a look at the change from a 28 - percent share overall in 2013 to a 2017 overall share of 21 percent.

Tracy and I are hard at work on the most - requested item from our recent launch of BookDesignTemplates.com — nonfiction - specific templates.