Sentences with phrase «story writer whose»

Mary Baader Kaley, published poet and short story writer whose work has appeared in Everyday Fiction, Dew on the Kudzu, and The Linnets Wings, is one of the administrators of the internet writing forum Write Stuff Extreme.

Blush was adapted by director Li Shaohong from a novel by Su Tong, a popular short - story writer whose better - known works include «Wives and Concubines,» the basis for Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern, and «Opium,» the basis for Ho Fan's Hong Kong feature The Szechuan Concubine.

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I found in Ford far more than I had hoped for: a writer who, by his own account, had «apprenticed» himself to America; whose stories and characters so spring from their landscapes and physical situations as to personify the spirit of the motels, roadside bars, lakes and highways where we encounter them; and who may well be, as his friend Raymond Carver (who died last summer) said, «sentence for sentence... the best writer at work in this country today.»

Clarke Montes honours Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the prolific science fiction writer and futurist whose novels and short stories (including 2001: A Space Odyssey) were imaginative depictions of space exploration.

After 5 years of producing no music (and enduring chronic pain and extended drug use), he's approached by a writer (Ian McGregor) whose effort for a story turns into much more.

Based on short stories from the 2009 collection «Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It» by American writer Maile Meloy, Reichardt's latest feature, Certain Women, displays the struggle for connection of three women whose loneliness mirrors the economic and spiritual malaise gripping a part of 21st century America.

Writer - director Jeff Nichols, whose previous film «Shotgun Stories» also starred Shannon, has the rare ability to think big and work small.

Hughes Andrew Rothschild The story of writer - director John Hughes, whose emotionally honest high school movies helped to define American culture in the 1980s — but who, at the very height of his success, abruptly abandoned filmmaking for reasons that have never been fully explained.

In that pursuit, drawing from various short stories of the author of The Man In The High Castle and whose work Blade Runner is based on, the Bryan Cranston, Ronald D. Moore and Isa Dick Hackett EP'd series with individual writers and directors for each stand - alone episode rolls around the notion of what it is to be a human being amidst pervasive digital technology and what is real.

McChrystal's story is the inspiration for writer - director David Michôd's new Netflix film, War Machine, based on a book by the late journalist Michael Hastings, whose 2010 Rolling Stone profile, «The Runaway General» got the general fired as commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

Each story in Channel 4's 10 - episode anthology series is based on a short story by legendary sci - fi writer Philip K. Dick, whose works have previously been adapted into such classic and blockbusting movies as «Blade Runner,» «Total Recall» and «Minority Report.»

Adapted from a William Giraldi novel by regular Saulnier collaborator / star Macon Blair, whose directorial debut won Sundance last year, Hold The Dark takes the canine terror to a new level with the story of a writer (Jeffrey Wright) hired to find and rescue a 6 - year - old boy dragged into the Alaskan wilderness by wolves.

Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer genius.

The film is the latest effort and first studio production from critically acclaimed writer / director Jeff Nichols, whose previous releases include Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud.

The writer / director expands the Bourne universe created by Robert Ludlum with an original story that introduces us to a new hero (Jeremy Renner) whose life - or - death stakes have been triggered by the events of the first three films.

Director / writer Jeff Nichols, whose debut film Shotgun Stories also starred Shannon in an emotionally intense and conflicted role, takes us through Curtis» nightmarish visions but keeps his story and his ordeal rooted in the real world.

But detective stories, even ones about part - time detectives, require a certain intricacy of plotting, and that's never been a strength, or even a concern, of these Belgian writer - directors, whose movies tend to unfold straightforwardly, like moral parables.

Mixing comedy and tragedy is nothing new, but what writer / directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (Bad Santa) have concocted is a dizzyingly fast paced story of hyper camp, criminal, love - bird misfits whose obliviousness to their own ridiculous tragedy is shot in such a bright comedic tone it feels almost cruel to watch.

Reuniting writer - director Jeff Nichols and actor Michael Shannon after their earlier 2007 «Shotgun Stories,» «Take Shelter» is the story of Curtis (Shannon), a husband and father whose sleep is wracked by uneasy dreams of omens and portents.

The girl also happens to be the Lady of the title, a narf (or sea nymph) named Story (Bryce Dallas Howard) who's been assigned by the inhabitants of her Blue World to track down and inspire a writer (Shyamalan) whose book - in - progress will influence the rise of an important world leader.

Studio Warner Bros. enlisted director Christopher Nolan — whose three Batman films grossed more than $ 2 billion worldwide between 2005 and 2012, according to box - office tracker Boxofficemojo.com — as a producer and story writer to help shepherd the film along.

Writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are figures whose stories film has not given up on portraying.

Carol Pogash is a former writer for the San Francisco Examiner and Forbes ASAP whose stories frequently appear in the New York Times.

Our speaker is an original Freedom Writer whose story is told in part in the 2007 hit movie, Freedom Writers.

An original Freedom Writer whose story is told in part in the 2007 hit movie, Freedom Writers, Manny Scott has energized almost two million leaders, educators, volunteers, and students worldwide with his authentic, inspiring messages of hope.

An original Freedom Writer whose story is told in part in the 2007 hit movie, Freedom Writers, Manny Scott has energized over a million leaders, educators, volunteers, and students worldwide with his authentic, inspiring messages of hope.

Twilight Times Books will present the works of those writers whose stories blend genres, are too literary for other publishers or seem too mainstream or «quirky» in tone.

Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition is dedicated to recognising and supporting the work of emerging writers whose fiction has not yet achieved success.

Billed as «A Conversation» between Patchett and her friend and fellow writer Edith Pearlman (whose short story collection is a finalist in this year's National Book Awards), watching two authors chat before a considerable crowd in the War Memorial Auditorium was a glimpse into the writer's world that stood out from the crowd of readings and panel discussions.

Aquaman # 26: This issue kicks off a new story arc, «Sea of Storms,» by a new writer, Jeff Parker, whose other works include the first issue of the digital - first Adventures of Superman.

Vince Rause is a freelance writer and journalist whose stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other publications.

Twice selected for Granta's list of Best Young British Novelists, winner of the 2007 Costa Book Award for her acclaimed novel Day («Day is a novel of extraordinary complexity» — The New York Review of Books), which was also chosen as one of New York magazine's top ten books of the year — the internationally revered A. L. Kennedy returns with a story collection whose glorious wit and vitality make this a not - to - be-missed addition to the canon of one of our most formidable young writers.

«Allen has written a beautiful, lyrical story, complete with genuine characters whose depth reflects Allen's skill as a writer.»

Looking to promote the artists and crafters whose creations she carried in her shop, writer and photographer Erin Austen Abbott began sharing «Studio Stories» on her Instagram feed.

Cynthia C. Scott is a freelance writer from the San Francisco Bay Area whose work has appeared in Glint Literary Journal, Copperfield Review, Hakai Magazine, Short Story Writer, Graze Magazine and owriter from the San Francisco Bay Area whose work has appeared in Glint Literary Journal, Copperfield Review, Hakai Magazine, Short Story Writer, Graze Magazine and oWriter, Graze Magazine and others.

When he died on March 4, 2016, we lost one of the last of a generation of Southern writers whose humorous, riveting, sad, terrifying and redemptive stories captured the ragged ways families fall in and out of love and hope.

With her debut novel, The Daughters — the story of a soprano whose voice is stolen by a curse, which won the 2015 PEN Southwest Book Award for Fiction — Celt introduced herself as a notable writer with a hauntingly lyrical voice.

In spite of such responses, within a year the story was included in Prize Stories of 1949 and 55 Short Stories from The New Yorker, acknowledging the power of Jackson's storytelling craft and introducing very widely a writer whose first novel, The Road Through the Wall (1948), had disappointing sales but cannily and hauntingly depicted the humorous, horrific and sometimes macabre irony of suburban life.

Fascinating is too mild a word for Wullschlager's life of the great Danish fairy - tale writer, who came out of more impoverished circumstances than did any other literary titan, retained peasantlike gaucheness and servility throughout his life, and whose neuroses and repressed bisexuality influenced his stories as much as his ugly - duckling success.

Jorge Argueta is a celebrated Salvadoran poet and writer whose bilingual children's books capture the stories and landscape of his beloved homeland as well as the immigrant experience in the U.S.. His poetry for children and adults has appeared in numerous anthologies and textbooks.

In fact, the largest number of editorial horror stories I've heard have come from not from writers at big and medium - sized publishers, but from unpublished or self - published writers who hired less - than - qualified independent editors (there are a lot of them out there), or from small press authors whose inexperienced publishers employed editors without the proper professional skills.

Author Mary L. Briggs is a freelance and indie writer, whose short stories have been featured in Woman's World Magazine.

It seems to me that in decades past, an author interview almost always included some story of the writer's closeness to either an editor, an agent, or both — patience worn thin, arguments that broke through to epiphanies, real influence on the work by these representatives, whose business, then, lay so much closer to the writing, itself.

Rosie Forrest is a writer of fiction and flash fiction with a background in drama whose collections of stories, «Ghost Box Evolution in Cadillac, Michigan,» won the 2015 annual Rose Metal Press Chapbook contest.

The PEN / Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work — a novel or collection of short stories — represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.

Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers is offered in the months of January / February, May / June, and September / October, and is open to any writer whose fiction has not appeared in a nationally distributed publication with a circulation greater than 5000.

George Tramountanas: I know that several writers and artists passed away in the last decade, but Wieringo was an individual whose art («Flash,» «Tellos,» «Fantastic Four») gave me such joy. His pages just had a «fun» feeling to them. And from stories I've heard around the internet, well, he was one of the good ones who was taken much too soon.

Maggin is a longtime comics writer whose credits include Green Arrow, Batman, Justice League, Peter Parker, Strange Sports Stories, and the Marvel Classics version of The Iliad.

The Authors League Fund helps authors with bodies of work published by traditional publishing houses, dramatists who have had their plays produced in theaters with at least 200 seats and journalists and freelance writers whose articles and stories have been nationally or broadly circulated.

~ Lazaraspaste, Dear Author «Karina Bliss is an excellent writer whose plots are so complex and her characters so realistic that readers are given much more than cookie cutter rehashes of classic stories.