Sentences with phrase «with writers of both fiction»

«This has proven to be very popular with writers of both fiction and non-fiction.

Not exact matches

He was an accomplished poet and sports journalist and a fiction writer with a strong feel for open spaces and the pull and consequences of history.

Because I'm not a woman, I couldn't do justice to the stories on my own, so I asked the top female Christian fiction writer of our time — Mary DeMuth — to coauthor it with me.

The sins of imperialism stain the British as well as the French, and if there is a lacuna in my historical fiction, it is the absence of a novel dealing with the kind of cruelties that have been exposed by writers such as William Dalrymple (The Last Mughal) and Ferdinand Mount (The Tears of the Rajas).

In a newspaper column, science fiction writer Orson Scott Card once told the story of a woman who called his house and told his wife that she'd had a one - night stand with him the previous night.

Writers of science fiction have field days imagining how universes with stronger and weaker forces of gravity or different ratios of weights of protons and neutrons could lead to forms of intelligent life.

Certain of her correspondence, particularly a series of letters to her friend Maryat Lee withheld from publication until 1994, exposes a disturbing facet of her identity as a mid-century white Southerner: a taste for racial jokes and a visceral distaste for the very blackness of black people which seems irreparably out of joint with her identity as a believing Roman Catholic and a writer of theology - driven fiction.

I hear a «whispering hope» when the erudite Reynolds Price writes openly about his vision of Jesus during his cancer ordeal, or when thousands buy his translation of three of the Gospels; when books of interviews with writers — like Susan Ketchin's The Christ - Haunted Landscape or Dale Brown's Of Fiction and Faith — seep into the academof Jesus during his cancer ordeal, or when thousands buy his translation of three of the Gospels; when books of interviews with writers — like Susan Ketchin's The Christ - Haunted Landscape or Dale Brown's Of Fiction and Faith — seep into the academof three of the Gospels; when books of interviews with writers — like Susan Ketchin's The Christ - Haunted Landscape or Dale Brown's Of Fiction and Faith — seep into the academof the Gospels; when books of interviews with writers — like Susan Ketchin's The Christ - Haunted Landscape or Dale Brown's Of Fiction and Faith — seep into the academof interviews with writers — like Susan Ketchin's The Christ - Haunted Landscape or Dale Brown's Of Fiction and Faith — seep into the academOf Fiction and Faith — seep into the academy.

Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature.

I remember seeing an interview with a Baptist fiction writer of great renown - John Grisham, I think - and he was asked something like why there was so little sex in his books.

I remember seeing an interview with a Baptist fiction writer of great renown - John Grisham, I think - and he was asked something like why there was so little socks in his books.

Toby is a part - time writer of fiction, poetry, music and freelance articles, with particular interests in creativity and the nature of consciousness.

The Guardian reports: «A former minister and fiction writer, Alvarado Quesada, 38, had 61 % of the vote with results in from 95 % of polling stations, a far bigger lead than predicted by opinion polls that foresaw a tight race.»

Wilson seems unfamiliar with the works of the French science - fiction writer, Bernard Werber.

Science fiction writers, beginning with Arthur C. Clarke in his 1979 novel, The Fountains of Paradise, and a few engineers have kicked around fantastic notions of a space elevator for years.

Stock's vision of the future overlaps to a degree with that of science fiction writers like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, particularly where biology and technology begin to merge.

Science - fiction writers have been resurrecting Neandertals in novels for decades, imagining what it would be like to see and communicate (not to mention mate) with another species of human.

Andrea Rothman was a postdoctoral fellow and research associate at the Rockefeller University in New York, where she studied the neurobiology of olfaction; she is a fiction writer and an editor for the journal Hunger Mountain, and her first novel, set in a research lab, is under contract with Janklow & Nesbit Literary Agency.

For example, a fan of Vonnegut and Asimov will be also be matched with fans of other science fiction and fantasy writers like Atwood and Herbert.

Among those titles, writer - director Tamara Jenkins returned after an 11 - year absence and 2007's The Savages to unleash the well - received infertility comedy Private Life, while docmaker Jennifer Fox turned heads with her first fiction foray, The Tale, a brave dramatization of her own belated discovery of sexual abuse.

Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).

Writer - producer - editor - director Krik (his director's credit reads «Dave Herman,» apparently out of concern that weaving too much inconvenient truth in with the genre fiction might attract the wrath the shadow conspirators), might have done better to deliver less retro larkiness and more straight facts.

Oliva is able to take his long time directing and storyboard artist experience along with screenplay writer J.M. DeMatteis and craft a highly entertaining and gripping piece of Batman fiction.

However in the hands of writer / director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, In Time), the result is occasionally challenging, dealing with both the science fiction elements and the teen angst at the heart of the story.

And Author: The JT Leroy Story is stranger - than - fiction documentary from Jeff Feuerzeig, which follows the story behind literary persona JT LeRoy, a fictional writer created by American author Laura Albert, complete with a made - up back - story of prostitution, drugs and vagrancy.

By the time he becomes a fiction writer late in the picture, it's implied that his jealous scenarios with Ramona and earlier girlfriends function as a kind of substitute for writing — or perhaps vice versa.

Johnson, though, might have brought in a science fiction writer with some familiarity with the paradoxes of time travel stories.

I wrote in my review of the film: «With Ex Machina, Alex Garland shows that he's just as talented as a director as he is a writer, and that he should definitely keep challenging the science fiction genre.

The program supports 10 to 12 writers or writer / directors developing a fiction feature screenplay and includes a hands - on writing workshop, a screening of a recent Sundance film followed by an in - depth conversation with the filmmaker, and two one - on - one script feedback sessions with creative advisors.

The Screenwriters Intensive is for first - time fiction feature writers or writer / directors who come from underrepresented communities, including women, artists of color, LGBTQ artists, and artists with disabilities.

Alex Garland is one of my favourite contemporary writers and directors of science - fiction films, and my admiration for him continues with Annihilation.

Dorothy B. Hughes was one of the great crime fiction writers; with an eclectic career that allowed her the time to pen some of the strongest material for film noir adaptations while also writing serious film criticism.

Cody tends to write characters that are what the science - fiction fans call «a Mary Sue» — meaning an awesomely idealized version of the writer, so brilliant that the other characters sort of gaze in amazement at her.Tully has some of the narcissism seen in Juno and their follow - up, Young Adult, but there's also some unusually raw material, acted by Charlize Theron with barely smothered fury.»

Annihilation shares more than a few ideas with Tarkovsky's twin science - fiction masterpieces, Solaris, an adaptation of Polish writer Stanislaus Lem's novel, and Stalker, Tarkovsky's adaptation of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's novel, «Roadside Picnic.»

Director Doug Liman, and Writer Gary Spinelli come out swinging with this stylish look - back on the late 70's and early 80's proving that sometimes life is stranger than fiction and that Tom Cruise, when given well crafted material, is still a solid actor of bravdic male characters.

Based on a popular graphic novel by Marasume Shirow and directed by Rupert Sanders («Snow White and the Huntsman»), Ghost in the Shell is a visually stunning experience with a fine core performance by Scarlett Johansson («Captain America: Civil War»), but it borrows so much of other, mostly better science fiction films and TV series, that charges of grand larceny should be levied against writers William Wheeler («Queen of Katwe»), Ehren Kruger («Transformers: Age of Extinction») and Jamie Moss («Street Kings»).

Like the 35 - year - old writer - director's previous movies — District 9 (2009) and Elysium (2013)-- his new work combines a realistically dingy, D.I.Y. look with cutting - edge visual effects and a smart, savvy sense of using science fiction to get at bigger issues.

Author: The JT Leroy Story Jeff Feuerzeig's stranger - than - fiction documentary follows the story behind literary persona JT LeRoy, a fictional writer created by American author Laura Albert, complete with a made - up back - story of prostitution, drugs and vagrancy.

The script for the film, which boasts two writers with cultish followings, Neil Gaiman (Stardust, Mirrormask) and Roger Avary (The Rules of Attraction, Pulp Fiction), had been in the works for almost a decade, finally coming to fruition with one of the more visually stunning films you're ever likely to see.

Spaihts has garnered an enviable reputation as a working writer and producer of intelligent, character - driven science fiction with produced titles that include The Darkest Hour and director Ridley Scott's Prometheus.

Now, 45 years later, the Fiction Factory documentary COP STORIES: THE MAKING OF RICHARD FLEISCHER»S THE NEW CENTURIONS, featuring new filmed interviews with writer Joseph Wambaugh, star Stacy Keach, technical advisor Richard E. Kalk (Wambaugh's real - life LAPD partner) and assistant cameraman Ronald Vidor, chronicles the production of that landmark film in all its stages from script to screeOF RICHARD FLEISCHER»S THE NEW CENTURIONS, featuring new filmed interviews with writer Joseph Wambaugh, star Stacy Keach, technical advisor Richard E. Kalk (Wambaugh's real - life LAPD partner) and assistant cameraman Ronald Vidor, chronicles the production of that landmark film in all its stages from script to screeof that landmark film in all its stages from script to screen.

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Watching Like a Writer is a movie review series that looks at films from the perspective of a fiction writer, complete with one writing takeaway, and an exercise that will help better your fiWriter is a movie review series that looks at films from the perspective of a fiction writer, complete with one writing takeaway, and an exercise that will help better your fiwriter, complete with one writing takeaway, and an exercise that will help better your fiction!

In a year filled with excellent, alternative examples of science fiction (Chronicle and Safety Not Guaranteed among them), the third effort by Brick writer / director Rian Johnson easily leapt to the top of the heap.

The writer / director's distinctive brand of genre homage remains, evolving from horror to action to science fiction; his good - natured irreverence again rears its head in satirical commentary and clever comedy; his man - child protagonists return, with different character names and dynamics but the same immature traits.

«At the same time, there is a strong evidence - base indicating that the use of dramatic enquiry — a drama - based practice where the teacher and pupils work in roles within a fiction to explore a story in a particular setting with developing characters — as well as the creation of a «community of writers», where the teacher writes alongside the children as a role model, can make the process of writing more meaningful for children.»

But, if executed correctly, she says schools should be challenging students to «read fiction like writers» — dissecting the connections between craft and theme, for instance — while also giving them time to experiment with less analytical forms of writing.

But I'm not sure I can offer any meaningful analysis of the publishing model, partly because I started with a higher profile than many fiction writers might.

Hidden Shadows is a Winner in the Fiction category of the 2016 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement award; Winner 2016 Global Ebook Awards, Popular Literature Fiction; Short - Listed for the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award; Honorable Mention, General Fiction, Eric Hoffer Award; Finalist, da Vinci Eye Award; Finalist, Debut category: WFWA (Women's Fiction Writers Association) Star Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National Indie Excellence Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and accolades.

We Need Diverse Books Short Story Contest is open to emerging diverse writers from all diverse backgrounds (including, but not limited to, LGBTQIA, people of colour, gender diversity, people with disabilities, and ethnic, cultural and religious minorities) who have not been published in a traditional print fiction book format, including self - published, independents, small and medium publishing houses, in all genres whether for the children's or adult market.