(In those days, short stories — some by
wonderful writers like Laurie Colwin, Lorrie Moore, and Elinor Lipman — were a fixture of the magazine.
Not exact matches
The sun - kissed and sophisticated Eileen Wade (Nina van Pallandt) wants Marlowe to find her missing hubby Roger Wade, a boozy
writer, (played by the
wonderful Sterling Hayden, a veteran of film noirs
like «Asphalt Jungle» and «The Killing»).
Morgan is a
wonderful writer when he's working from the headlines, but his «personal» movies,
like «Hereafter» and this one, release a bleary, pseudo-profound aspect of his talent that's best left in the dark.
You can join free communities
like Verla Kay's Blueboard (watch for my upcoming post about Verla Kay), and learn all sorts of
wonderful things about
writers and writing.
I met her at the blog of Emily Cross — the
wonderful Irish
writer who started the
Writers» Chronicle Forums — and I just assumed Danielle lived in Ireland
like Emily.
We developed
wonderful new partnerships with companies
like Wiley, Harvard Business Press, Ellora's Cave — the largest romance publisher in the world,
Writer's Coffee Shop (the original publishers of Fifty Shades of Grey) and many other talented clients.
Nigeria is a country fertile with
writers, full of
wonderful literary figures
like Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, and Ben Okri.
For the uninitiated, a pitch is an author's brief, face - to - face verbal presentation to an agent or an editor
like me, (usually at a
writers conference) of what's
wonderful, original, and saleable about your book and why you're the best person to write it.
And you go to
writers conferences (ahem...
Writer Unboxed Unconference) where you meat lots of other introverts who have a
wonderful time socializing and meeting people just
like them.
«Reading Leon is
like sitting down with old friends for the most satisfying of dinners, replete of course with well - chosen wines... Leon is a
wonderful writer, the sentences as beautifully crafted as the puparin Casati's father had long ago built.
His ability to evoke a time and place — mostly Florida but also the industrial Midwest, Las Vegas, and elsewhere — was
wonderful, and he could get inside an occupation to give you the details and the feel of it
like few other
writers I've ever read.