Sentences with phrase «regarded novelist»

Interview with Leah Stewart about Husband and Wife Sarah and Nathan are just your average American couple: still in love after more than 10 years together, they have a toddler daughter and an infant son; Nathan is a well - regarded novelist poised for commercial success with the release of his new book, Infidelity.

Letts, who was 76, was a highly regarded novelist (as well as a teacher and...

Released: December 5 Cast: Rebecca Spence, Jessie Pinnick, Malic White, James Vincent Meredith Director: Stephen Cone (Henry Gamble's Birthday Party) Why it's great: To escape her depressive, widower father, Cyd (Pinnick), a glib 16 - year - old with an omnivorous sexual appetite, shacks up with her aunt Miranda (Spence), a well - regarded novelist still living in her childhood home.

Martin presses him about how some highly regarded novelists (in Franzenian, «cliché - free»), including Gabriel Roth, say they think of Twitter as «a formal way to play with language.»

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With that preparation, Professor Richard propounded the first question, the one Percy had to contend with from his early recognition as novelist to the end: «Do you consider yourself as a Southern writer and, if so, what features of your work do you regard as peculiarly Southern?»

Ralph C. Wood regards John Updike as a writer to be «reckoned with theologically» though he finds in the novelist's recent memoirs — and in his work as a whole — more «justification by sin» then justification by faith.

Precisely in this regard Updike is a religious novelist.

He regarded Muggeridge as a «failed novelist,» whose foray into intelligence work during the war permitted him to escape the unhappiness of family life for a life «where things were deceptive and dishonest by definition.»

«Westworld,» the 1973 sci - fi film conceived by novelist Michael Crichton that marked his directorial debut, is often regarded a high - concept precursor to his later work, «Jurassic Park,» in which a high - tech amusement park descends into chaos when its primary attractions — in this case automated denizens of an idealized Old West, rather than T - Rexes and velociraptors — turn on the attendees.

Not to draw comparisons to the two, as Tim Curry's interpretation of the flesh and fear feasting demonic clown will always be one of the high spots in regards to King's imagination translated to cinema, but this is both a film with its own identity (the events unfold throughout the late end of the 1980s this time around) that also manages to honor the craftsmanship that went into one of the novelist's most personal tales.

A cartoonist, novelist and screenwriter, Alex Garland, who's most commonly known for writing films such as The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go, and Dredd, has now made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a sci - fi cautionary tale that challenges viewers with a variety of existential questions in regards to artificial intelligence.

by Walter Chaw On the strength of his scripts for The Hired Hand, Ulzana's Raid, and Night Moves, Scottish novelist Alan Sharp seems well at home with the better - known, more highly - regarded writers and directors of the New American Cinema.

The highly regarded writerand graphic novelist finally saw his fairytale, Stardust (2..

It was a cheerful event, featuring special guests First Lady Jessica Doyle, State Superintendent Tony Evers and Wisconsin novelist Jane Hamilton, who gave the funniest, most persuasive speech I've ever heard regarding the pleasures of reading.

First there'd been the anxiety - ridden, attitude - infused Jewish American novelists; followed by the less interesting, more self - regarding WASPs, the Updikes and Styrons and Foxxes; and the nondescript newbies, the young Turks full of sass and plausibility that Cora and her counterparts whipped up into supernovas for the four days of the fair, sometimes for book after book, year after year.

Regarded as one of most prolific romance novelists of the 20th century, Cartland published 723 books in her lifetime that were translated into 38 languages and sold worldwide.

Banville, a prolific and critically regarded Irish novelist whose previous works have won some of the most prestigious literary awards, is a mesmerizing prose stylist, and that's where he triumphs here.

Because they have less regard for the traditional way of doing things, and because they tend to be more experimental and bigger risk - takers, many indie novelists have started incorporate keywords into the novel subtitles in the way that memoirists and self - help authors are encouraged to do.

Highly regarded Japanese novelist Ryu Murakami isn't releasing his next novel on hardcover or paperback.

«I have observed and seen everything that Stephanie just described with regard to holds lists,» McCormack said, noting that publishers are missing out by not having a more robust marketing infrastructure in place to help libraries launch debut novelists or midlisters.

The Pulitzer Prize - winning Novelist — Author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — will be at CCAD in conversation with Jared Gardner, Professor in OSU's Department of English & the Film Studies Program, regarding the nexus between film and screen writing, comics, and literature.

Regarding this exhibition, the British writer and novelist Michael Bracewell states: «THE BEARD PICTURES are violent, eerie, grotesque, lurid and crazed.

The contest judge is Kim Stanley Robinson, widely regarded as one of the best living science fiction novelists (and a past Dot Earth contributor).