Sentences with phrase «writer living between»

Elliott Burns is an independent curator and writer living between London and Mexico City.

Paul Lloyd Sargent is a multidisciplinary artist, freelance video editor, and writer living between Brooklyn, Syracuse, and Wellesley Island, NY.

Not exact matches

The reflections of the French Catholic writer François Mauriac, who succeeded in leading a conventional family life despite what he experienced as the powerful lure of alcohol, drugs, and homosexuality, demonstrate the gap between the austere piety of the religious individual and the tactful lifestyle that Tóibín detects in James:

From pagan writers of the early second century A.D. it can be gleaned that Christianity had spread from Judaea to Rome, possibly before A.D. 50, (Suetonius, in his Life of Clandius, says that Claudius expelled the Jews from Rome for continual rioting «at the instigation of Chrestus», a phrase which has been variously interpreted, but may refer to trouble between Jews and Christians.)

Such moments reveal what Christian writer C.S. Lewis called «our inconsolable secret,» our universal longing to bridge a gulf between our ordinary lives and this extraordinary life set before us.

A more fully developed example of the same kind of reasoning is the fashion, quite common nowadays among certain writers, of criticizing the religious emotions by showing a connection between them and the sexual life.

The writer of Ephesians uses the language of courtship and marriage to convey the passion and mystery of Christ's union with the church.12 Yet anticipation of full union with Christ does not deny the reality of inevitable daily conflict between the «old» and the «new» in the life of believers.

Even the earlier gospel writers like Mark live in a kind of tension between what Jesus was in the days of his flesh and what he was for the church.

Let him wonder out loud if a book published in 1989, and the 15 months of investigations and media barrage it set off, was his bullet... and then try not to wonder, try to shut that midnight whisper down and ignore the connection between cancer and personal trauma, because otherwise he would have to blame a few people — a writer, a local managing editor — for this nightmare he was living, and he would have to hate, and hatred and blame were the worst detours a man could take when he was locked in mortal combat to live.

If you liked the give - and - take between Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in the 1940 film His Girl Friday, you'd cotton to life around the Lido Beach, N.Y. home of SI reporter Sandy Keenan and her husband, Mike Winerip, a writer for The New York Times.

On the eve of science writer Katie Worth's experiment to live on Mars time and blog about how it feels, she explains how living between time zones across the universe without guidance from sleep scientists can prove disastrous

The live blood analysis shows little correlation between diet and radiation, yet this writer acts as though it has been proven effective against radiation.

This surprise, small budget, black - and white - collaboration between writer / director Noah Baumbach (Greenberg 76, The Squid and the Whale 82) and writer / star Greta Gerwig looks at the post-college life of Frances (Gerwig), an apprentice dancer fumbling though life in New York City.

The difference between American Splendor and Ghost World is that with two solitary figures in search of completion, there is the possibility for recognition of sameness — but with two figures (underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar and his wife Joyce Brabner (Hope Davis)-RRB- who have found in one another a sympathetic orbit, a partner in life and lo, with a child dropped willy - nilly into their midst to tie up loose ends, there is instead a sort of alien, island of lost toys exclusion that makes for a further alienation of the very alienated audience to which Pekar's comic so appealed and, eventually, took for granted and pandered.

The feature - length debut of writer / director Jeff Baena (co-writer of David O. Russell's oddball «I Heart Huckabees»), «Life After Beth» can't seem to decide if it wants to be a lark or if it wants to resonate, and wavers between both tones uneasily.

The Big Sick is based on the real - life courtship between the film's writers, Kumail Nanjiani (who also stars) and Emily V. Gordon.

Features: generally excellent Audio Commentaries [various configurations of producers, writers, directors and cast comment on all eight episodes]; Take a Look at the Lawman — a one hour making of documentary split between discs one and two; Interview Clip with Bharat Nalluri [director for the first two episodes]; The Music of Life On Mars — composer Ed Butt takes us through the surprisingly complex task of composing and arranging the series» theme music; Get Sykes — featurette with production designer Brian Sykes, and a [sadly] pretty average Outtakes Reel.

Whether he's showing Blake binging on whiskey in between puffs from a cigarette but before puking in a trash can in the alley outside the stage or talking with his newfound love about her kid, his inability to take a much - needed favor from his old student, or when he's going to get to see her again before downing some more whiskey while smoking and soon passing out on his bathroom floor, writer / director Scott Cooper seems to only care about the obvious details of Blake's here - and - now life.

Lords is appealing in a rare starring role, the writing by Skopov and Richey intelligent, and the showcasing of the lives of the tug - of - war between writer and editor for the direction of a book is somewhat enlightening, but it doesn't congeal into a form that distinguishes itself from the rest of the already crowded rom - com pack.

Rendering characters they developed in tandem with their Spanish writer - director, these non-professional but astoundingly gifted performers convey so much of what matters in so many working - class black lives: the solidarity but also the standoff between parent and child; the series of low - ceiling jobs; the alienation from what few social services still exist; the yearning but also the wariness awakened by new romantic prospects; and the suddenness with which poor choices, ambient prejudice, or adolescent disaffection lead to intractable enmeshments in the penal apparatus.

Yet it also goes deeper: as in Ann Hui's equally compelling The Golden Era, the film respects the mystery of the creative process, the obscure correspondences between life and art, whether or not it is important to like a writer to appreciate his / her work — but, ultimately, why it matters for public freedom that writers should be allowed to misbehave in peace.

It lives in this in between place, a narrative feature infused with documentary elements, and writer - director Bart Layton manages to spectacularly stick that tricky landing.

Life of the Party (2018) Old School Meets New Life The third collaboration between Melissa McCarthy and her writer - director husband Ben Falcone, Life of the Party is probably the pair's best effort to... Continue reading →

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The series follows the complicated double life of Andrew (Mangan), a successful travel writer, who, through extenuating circumstances, finds himself living between two sets of wives and children, whose existences are unknown to each other.

Writer / director Maggie Betts» carefully calibrated drama shifts between lives caught up in doubt, illicit romance and the sweeping liberalism of the Roman Catholic Church's controversial Vatican II reforms.

In her documentary, director and writer Lana Wilson quietly captures the pain and profundity in the struggle between life and death via an unconventional Buddhist priest.

Jennifer Merin: Beautiful performances from Julianne Nicholson, Margo Martindale, Lorraine Tousaint and Diane Ladd bring to life writer - director Maggie Greenwald's drama about the love affair between a lonely belle and her Japanese gardener.

Sony's new film You Are My Friend, directed by Marielle Heller, is being distributed by TriStar Pictures and is inspired by the real - life friendship between magazine writer Tom Junod who reluctantly takes a job to do a feature piece on Fred Rogers and it changes his perception of the world.

As a prolific writer and renowned public intellectual, he frequently explored trends in American race relations and family life, hailing, for instance, the controversial report, «Equality of Educational Opportunity» (1966), by his friend James Coleman, which stressed the relationship between broken families and poor student performance in the public schools.

Many struggling writers experience a disconnect between what their writing assignment is focused on and what they perceive to be relevant in their lives.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Empowering Writers takes a unique approach to live event writing instruction, emphasizing the connection between good writing skills and literacy achievement.

In any case your goalpost - moving from «author» to «professional author» undermines your original and underlying thesis — that there is some profound and meaningful difference between calling somebody a (mere) «writer» and an «author», and that it has anything to do with either a relationship with a publishing house or ability to make a living off one's writing.

We prefer to know our clients and organize live communication between them and writers, therefore exclude any possibility of plagiarism.

We figured that sharing knowledge about the book trade — both the bad and good — would spawn healthier collaboration between writers and the team of editors, designers and distributors who ultimately give a book life.

King's advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near - fatal accident in 1999 — and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery.

These people have found a balance between real life and the writers» life.

Sometimes the connection between writer and artist doesn't work out as well as one hopes, but other times, Torres says, «it's fulfilling to see what comes back» when his words are brought to life by an artist's pencil.

It will prove that the writer or the student understand the exact differences between two diverse types of life and living.

The battle between indie and traditional published writers was short - lived (only a couple of years) and only writers with heads stuck deep in the sand now miss that you can do both indie and traditional and should do both, depending on each project.

An intelligent, deeply moving, and remarkably written portrait of a relationship that reads as a cross between a romance novel and a literary page turner, A Small Hotel is a masterful story that will remind readers once again why Robert Olen Butler has been called the «best living American writer» (Jeff Guinn, Fort Worth Star - Telegram).

What does this encounter teach Paul about the difference between writers» work and their actual lives, their legend and their reality?

is abruptly shuttered, Billie discovers of WWII - era letters between a 12 - year - old girl and famous chef and cookbook writer James Beard — a correspondence that ends up changing her own life.

From «quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories» (NPR), Ninety - Nine Stories of God finds Joy Williams reeling between the sublime and the surreal, knocking down the barriers between the workaday and the divine.

At once a fascinating historical novel and a glimpse into a writer's life, Becoming Mrs. Lewis is above all a love story — a love of literature and ideas and a love between a husband and wife that, in the end, was not impossible at all.»

Currently Looking For: Fiction that hits the sweet spot between commercial and literary with interesting settings and a strong narrative voice; mystery (particularly cozies and crossover literary — think Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger), literary thriller, and psychological suspense; and memoir by writers who connect the events of their lives to readers through incredible storytelling, as well as a wide variety of prescriptive and narrative nonfiction and gift books.

The winner of the Crime Writers» Association Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, among other awards, Donna Leon lived in Venice for many years and now divides her time between Venice and Switzerland.

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«From one of the greatest writers of our time...» Amazon explains in their product description, «written between 1979 and 2011, chronicling — and foretelling — three decades of American life.»