Sentences with phrase «unfinished novels»

I don't want to be petty or unfair to applicants, but I don't want to hear about people's unfinished novels on their resumes or cover letters.

John had previously attempted a play, we both have unfinished novels on the go - probably like many journalists - but this struck us as a rich mine to tap in terms of material.

In Flaubert's unfinished novel Bouvard and Pécuchet, the two men wonder what style would best suit their new garden.

I haven't seen a movie in a dog's age but I'd love to see the new adaptation of Jane Austen's unfinished novel Love & Friendship but who are we kidding, we all know I don't watch movies.

Jane Austen's unfinished novel is bitingly funny, smart, and fantastic on the screen and we loved it!

«More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones,» Truman Capote wrote in his unfinished novel, Answered Prayers.

Loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's final unfinished novel of the same name, the new series stars Matt Bomer, Kelsey Grammer, and Lily Collins; take a look below...

(2005, Ballantine Books) How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood, by William J. Mann (2010, Mariner Books) A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio, by Foster Hirsch (2001, DeCapo Press) Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando, by Stefan Kanfer (2009, Vintage Books) Truman Capote: Conversations, Edited by M. Thomas Inge (1987, University Press of Mississippi) Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel, by Truman Capote (1994, Vintage Books) Clark Gable: A Biography, by Warren G. Harris (2005, Three Rivers Press) Elia Kazan: A Biography, by Richard Schickel (2006, Harper Perennial) An Open Book, by John Huston (1994, De Capo Press) Ernest Borgnine: The Autobiography, by Ernest Borgnine (2009, Citadel) James Dean: The Mutant King by David Dalton (2001, Chicago Review Press)

Adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel, the story centers on a Hollywood executive named Monroe Stahr (Matt Bomer) and his power struggle with former mentor and current studio head Pat Brady (Kelsey Grammer).

Raoul Peck's gripping documentary takes a deep dive into James Baldwin's unfinished novel about race in America.

According to Deadline, Kelsey Grammer has landed a starring role in Amazon Studios» adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon.

SYNOPSIS: Piecing together James Baldwin's unfinished novel, Remember This House about race relations in America.

Adapted from an unfinished novel by Irène Némirovsky, a French - Ukrainian Jew who died in Auschwitz before she could complete an epic, five - part portrait of life under the Nazis, Suite understandably concentrates on its most accessible aspect: a forbidden romance that puts both Williams and Schoenaerts at odds with their respective camps, represented on Williams» side by her sternly disapproving mother - in - law (Kristin Scott Thomas).

So, when setting up your publication schedule, look not only at your existing inventory, but slot in an unfinished novel or two.

In writing about the tragic career of poet John Berryman, whose agonizing and embarrassingly public battle with alcoholism ended with a leap from a Minneapolis bridge in 1972, she describes a man who wrestled with an unfinished novel about recovery while trying and failing to stay sober.

Starting in 2000, King experimented with the e-serial format with his yet - unfinished novel «The Plant»; he posted installments of the story on his website for $ 1...

Luke Fildes Fildes (1844 - 1927) was the illustrator of Dickens» last, unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

After Roberta's untimely death from cancer at age 46, he put the unfinished novel away in a closet.

These can be anything from completing that unfinished novel to having a manuscript edited, to attending a writer's conference (we suggest PubSmart!)

Nor did David Foster Wallace before his suicide, and yet the show has the notebooks for The Pale King, his unfinished novel.

The title for the exhibition is taken from Gustave Flaubert's last, unfinished novel where two Parisian copyists Bouvard and Pécuchet meet, become dear friends, and stoke each other's curiosity to know the world and its rational, post-Enlightenment ways better.

Featuring projected animations, and 16 singers and musicians, Star Choir incorporates phrases from an unfinished novel, Parable of the Trickster, which Butler famously struggled to complete.

listing an unfinished novel as a work accomplishment on your resume was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager.

Not exact matches

They are nothing revolutionary, but at least the storyboards look more like an unfinished graphic novel than the usual crude preproduction sketches.

Even though the story in the final version of the game is pretty much unfinished, it seems like series creator Hideo Kojima already had a clear idea on the Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain themes a few years ago, as revealed in a new interview with the MGSV novel author Kanji Yano.

The story conjures memories of Woody Allen's «Deconstructing Harry,» a cynical movie about the dangers of using real characters for novels and Luigi Pinadello's play, «Six Characters in Search of an Author,» about six people claiming to be part of an unfinished story, asking the writer to complete the job.

Her novel I'm Still Me, remains unfinished.

Gail Godwin is a three - time National Book Award nominee and the bestselling author of many critically acclaimed novels, including A Mother and Two Daughters, Violet Clay, Father Melancholy's Daughter, Evensong, The Good Husband, Evenings at Five, The Making of a Writer, Volumes 1 and 2, Unfinished Desires and Flora.

I was told to bring my «book» (translation: portfolio, something, of course, I didn't have) and I brought my book, my unfinished «great American novel,» which I promptly plopped down on the interviewer's desk.

Although the novel is unfinished (what we have is an extract from hundreds of manuscript pages), the dreamlike narrative possesses great power, drawing on Ellison's signature theme of racial identity.

When I started writing A Promise of Fire over five years ago now, there was a good chance this manuscript would end up like my other works of fiction: perhaps unfinished, never seen by anyone but me, definitely never presented to agents or editors and using up space on my hard drive in a folder with a misleading enough name that hopefully no one would ever open it and stumble upon my first (and sometimes hilarious) attempts at writing a novel.

In Unfinished Desires, a beloved author delivers a gorgeous new novel in which thwarted desires are passed on for generations — and captures the rare moment when a soul breaks free.

Within the space of one year, I completed a 520,000 word manuscript, a 59,000 word manuscript between drafts of the big one, and an unfinished 70,000 word novel.

He'd be there already, were it not for the crippling tuition fees of his college - age daughters (that, and a bit of unfinished under - the - table business from the first novel, Rizzo's War).

One is that the murders might be based on a rare unfinished Wilkie Collins novel that is missing from her personal library.

A surprising sidebar to the publication of Mark Spragg's exceptional second novel, An Unfinished Life, is the fact that the movie version of the story will be in theaters at Christmas.

Legendary cartoonist and Mad Magazine founder Harvey Kurtzman left behind a legacy of unfinished work when he passed in 1993 — including a grand, unfinished graphic - novel adaptation of Charles Dickens» A Christmas Carol.

The Snowflake Method For Designing A Novel If you have a box of unfinished beginnings of your writing and could never find a way to make an end, «The Snowflake Method» by «America's Mad Professor of Fiction Writing» will make you look at the end as well as the beginning and how both can connect and make a flowing story - line.

On the list there are Unfinished Business by Nora Roberts, We Need To Talk About Kevin by Kate Mosse & Lionel Shriver, and Tiffany Reisz's two novels: The Siren and The Angel.

Kafka's unfinished first novel, published posthumously as Amerika, documents an imminent, alien journey toward the vast abstraction of landscape.

[25] His work Le chef d'oeuvre inconnu — a painting in three parts, unfinished at his death, comprises a trio of large inkjet prints composed from Photoshop images to visualize the moment of crisis in Balzac's novel The Unknown Masterpiece.

Late author David Foster Wallace's unfinished book The Pale King is the sequel to his 1996 novel, Infinite Jest.

And the third novel is destined to remain unfinished.