Sentences with phrase «with nonfiction accounts»

Since then, publishers have struggled with nonfiction accounts that are not entirely so (James Frey's A Million Little Pieces comes readily to mind).

Not exact matches

America's fascination with true crime storytelling has existed for quite some time, with Truman Capote noting in the 1960s that he'd created a new art form (the «nonfiction novel») with In Cold Blood, his best - selling account of the gruesome murder of a Kansas family.

I want her to know...» If you want a nonfiction account of what happens when fathers encourage daughters to get «in touch» with their sexuality because «it is not so big a deal,» read Hustled: My Journey From Fear to Faith (Westminster / John Knox), Tonya Flynt «Vega's sad tale of what it was like growing up as Larry Flynt's daughter.

After failed attempts at a fictional account, a lunch with the writer Gay Talese — who urged Villano to tell the story as nonfiction — provided the push he needed.

Sebastian Junger burst onto the literary scene in 1997 with «The Perfect Storm,» his riveting nonfiction account of the loss of a fishing vessel and its crew from Gloucester, Mass., which was adapted for a 2000 film starring George Clooney and Mark...

Based on Jane Wilde Hawking's nonfiction account of her marriage to Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything is an Instagram - filtered romance with an astrophysics backdrop that earned Eddie Redmayne the Oscar for Best Actor.

This nonfiction account of the lives of the three Jerome sisters — rich Americans who married British aristos, and one of whom became the mother of Winston Churchill — is a «beguiling chronicle» of the Edwardian era, replete with descriptions of homes, dresses and extramarital affairs with royals.

I'd previously known her from her fiction, but Black Lamb and Grey Falcon is her nonfiction account of the trips to Yugoslavia that she took with her husband, Henry Maxwell Andrews, between 1936 and 1938.

(I suspect there are many nonfiction models for accounts of family life where some Skinner - like research experiment has played out, seemingly harmless and engrossing at the time but with later dire consequences, but there is no fiction I have ever heard of with Fowler's particular subject.)

His electrifying narrative — filled with riveting details about the miners» existence underground — is the first official account of the ordeal and a book that's destined to become a nonfiction classic.

Focusing this intense, insightful nonfiction narrative on her experiences with patients who died, Pauline Chen presents a compelling account of her career as a surgeon.

This attention - grabbing introduction to Kevin Fedarko «s «Rocketing Into the Great Unknown: The Emerald Mile on the Colorado River» appeared in Outside Online in conjunction with the launch of the author's nonfiction account, The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Though the Heart of the Grand Canyon.

Both also distribute their published works on Kindle Singles, with several starring on the bestseller list there, including The Fearless Mrs. Goodwin (Byliner) by Elizabeth Mitchell, a 44 - page true - crime account of a brutal bank heist taking place in turn - of - the - century Manhattan, and Blind Sight (Atavist) by Chris Colin, a 38 - page nonfiction narrative about a Hollywood movie producer's horrific car wreck that killed his new wife and his subsequent 10 - year journey recovering from devastating brain injuries.