Sentences with phrase «seeing as my memoir»

Which is an enormously ironic statement, seeing as my memoir is about doing exactly that, albeit in a different context.

Not exact matches

When Jason Boyett and I realized we had both written memoir - style books about our experiences with doubt to be published byZondervan in the spring / summer of 2010, we decided to team up rather than compete — an arrangement that has probably worked more in my favor than his, seeing as Jason's already published a shelf - full of books and has earned a reputation for being one of the industry's most thoughtful and humorous voices.

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.

Many in Hollywood say they see the spiritual - memoir - turned - movie as the next hot genre, suggesting there are ongoing talks about turning Lauren Winner's «Girl Meets God» into a romantic comedy, Ian Cron's «Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me» into an action flick, Anne Lamott's «Traveling Mercies» into an indie road trip film, Kathleen Norris» «The Cloister Walk» into something really creepy involving monks.»

I was so touched that Jamie Lee Curtis read the memoir, seeing as her book Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born was Tariku's favorite for about 2 years.

Based on the memoir by Solomon Northup (as told to David Wilson) and adapted for the screen by John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave sees an affluent black American — a violinist and family man born free in New York state - pitched into a waking nightmare when he's kidnapped by slavers in 1841.

The drama is based on the memoir Molly's Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High - Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker by Molly Bloom and sees Jessica Chastain leading the cast as Bloom alongside Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Brian d'Arcy James, and Chris O'Dowd.

«I can not tell you, as much as I thought the memoir and Solomon's words and work was special, I had no concept until I saw the movie for the first time,» said the film's screenwriter, John Ridley, accepting the prize in that category as he referred to protagonist Solomon Northup.

Propped up by class and affectation — he wears a bow tie, attends Princeton reunions to bellow «Old Nassau» with other middle - aged inebriates, and competes with his wife to see who can more fully drop the «r «s in French words such as «chevre» and «memoir» — he's spent a lifetime imagining himself a success, only to discover abruptly that he is in fact a failure at both work and marriage and had simply never noticed.

Truffaut doesn't push any of the trendy buttons in his chronicle of a connoisseur des femmes: Charles Denner approaches each stage of each conquest as though it were a matter of life and death, and by the time the title of the movie, and Denner's memoir - in - progress, has been fulfilled, we see that those are the stakes precisely.

But though no cinephile's life would be complete without a viewing of The Room — an experience one early reviewer compared to «getting stabbed in the head» — there's no need to have seen it in order to enjoy The Disaster Artist, James Franco's hilarious and big - hearted adaptation of Sestero's memoir, starring Franco himself as the eccentric maestro and his brother Dave Franco as Sestero, a Sancho Panza — style sidekick to Wiseau's grandiose Quixote.

Persepolis — My personal must - see: A hand - drawn animated feature based on Marjane Satrapi's brilliant graphic (as in comics) memoir of growing up in Iran.

The film is based on Garrad Conley's Boy Erased: A Memoir, and sees Hedges portraying Conley, who as a teenager was outed to his parents and was given the choice of -LSB-...]

Winter Journal is far more than a simple collection of lists, however; the memoir is strongest and most emotionally compelling when the reader can see Auster arriving at moments of revelation, such as the realization that his moments of periodic physical frailty coincide closely with episodes of emotional intensity, personal crisis, and loss.

As a native Arkansan, it was surreal to see Damien Echols, one of the members of the West Memphis Three and the author of the memoir Life After Death, walking free on the stage of an auditorium at a book festival.

Zanele Muholi was influenced by Gordon Parks through his powerful use of the camera for social commentary as described by this quote from Parks» memoir: «I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs.