Sentences with phrase «writers of short story»

In subject matter and temperament I have always loved certain american writers of the short story for this reason.

Many writers of short story collections eventually get frustrated and decide to publish their own collections.

Mary C. M. Phillips is a caffeinated wife, mother, and writer of short stories and personal essays.

The Etisalat Prize for Literature also incorporates an award for Flash Fiction; an online - based competition for non-published African writers of short stories.

I consider myself to be an honest and loyal man, artist and writer of short stories and open ended verse!

There's lots of excitement bubbling about new publishing opportunities for writers of short stories, essays, journalism and other less - than - book - length works.

Most people know Emma Donoghue (no relation, unless you go way back to the roots buried in the bog) as the author of Room, but she has been a prolific novelist and writer of short stories, mysteries, literary history and much more.

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.

Alongside her painting, Yiadom - Boakye is an avid writer of short stories.

Not exact matches

This collection of short stories by a National Book award - winning writer, «feature telepathic zoo animals, a zealous toy collector and an eavesdropping Abraham Lincoln,» reports the FT.. Other commentators agree it's a whole lot of fun, while still managing to be moving and insightful.

But the bulk of the book is devoted to three names that are more familiar: novelist Ron Hansen, the late short - story writer Andre Dubus, and poet Paul Mariani.

Without a doubt, our best short - story writer, this is my favourite collection of Munro's work.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

I'm a graduate of the Penguin Writer's Academy and have published a short story.

AG: The shorter version of my story is that I'd been working as a freelance food writer for about a decade but felt called to do something different.

When we are talking ties to Australia, Henry was the name of their «Father of Federation» and is also the name of a very well - known short story writer, Henry Lawson.

On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction Karl Iagnemma, The Dial Press, $ 22.95 A computer technician who thinks he's found the mathematical equation for romance and a botanist who secretly yearns for the author of her field's most trusted text are two of the protagonists in a spellbinding collection of short stories from Iagnemma, a roboticist and fiction writer at MIT.

Full marks to Gollancz for publishing this collection of stories by one of Britain's consistently finest science fiction writers — but it, and other book publishers, would be doing themselves, writers and readers a favour by providing more outlets for short fiction.

Clarke Montes honours Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the prolific science fiction writer and futurist whose novels and short stories (including 2001: A Space Odyssey) were imaginative depictions of space exploration.

In the short story «Funes, the Memorious,» Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges imagines just such a savant and writes, «In the overly replete world of Funes there were nothing but details.»

Dr. Margarita Kullick is bilingual in English and Spanish, a frequent guest of local and national television and a published short story writer and medical writer for a Hispanic community publication.

Recently, I am back page of real people looking for a story short, anonymous writer Linda Spa Doubles Available evenings to.

Deniz Gamze Ergüven, who makes her feature debut as writer - director after a couple of short films, tells the story exclusively from the girls» point of view — both emotionally, as they have all our sympathy, and physically, as almost nothing happens that one of them could not be seeing.

Their fabricated stories occasionally dissolve into something much more honest; Jack, perhaps the most emotional of the brothers, is a short story writer, with suspiciously familiar plot points and characters he insists are fictitious (from the short, Hotel Chevalier, which accompanies the film at the festival, we know this is not true).

Rebel in the Rye offers a cursory glance at every stage of Salinger's career, including his time at Columbia, his service in World War II, his emergence as a short - story writer for The New Yorker, the 1951 publication of The Catcher in the Rye and its overwhelming success, and his later retreat into total seclusion in New Hampshire.

Based on short stories from the 2009 collection «Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It» by American writer Maile Meloy, Reichardt's latest feature, Certain Women, displays the struggle for connection of three women whose loneliness mirrors the economic and spiritual malaise gripping a part of 21st century America.

Writer / director Bernard Rose takes a very short list of facts and weaves a story of mystery, intrigue and of a tortured artist who sells his soul to the devil, enjoys everything the world has to offer — from women to drugs — and eventually suffers for it.

Adapted by esteemed crime writer Dennis Lehane from his short story «Animal Rescue,» the movie doesn't have the same cynicism as past adaptions of the author's work («Mystic River,» «Gone Baby Gone»), but it's a grimy little crime drama that harkens back to the great Sidney Lumet films of the 1970s.

Special Features Andrei Tarkovsky's short film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's «The Killers,» made when he was a student in 1956 Interview from 2002 with writer Stuart M. Kaminsky about both films Piece from 2002 in which actor Stacy Keach reads Hemingway's short story «Screen Directors»» Playhouse radio adaptation from 1949 of the 1946 film, starring Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters Interview from 2002 with actor Clu Gulager Audio excerpt from director Don Siegel's autobiography, «A Siegel Film,» read by actor and director Hampton Fancher Trailers PLUS: Essays by novelist Jonathan Lethem and critic Geoffrey O'Brien

In that pursuit, drawing from various short stories of the author of The Man In The High Castle and whose work Blade Runner is based on, the Bryan Cranston, Ronald D. Moore and Isa Dick Hackett EP'd series with individual writers and directors for each stand - alone episode rolls around the notion of what it is to be a human being amidst pervasive digital technology and what is real.

The producers and lead actresses sat down with us to discuss the World Premiere of the short film, the inspiration behind Writer / Director Max Baker's story, musical comedy routines, naughty fun stories and really good magical cookies!

It's a series of short stories about the shop owner, a writer who frequents the shop, and a kid the writer kind of adopts.

Brooke, as played by Greta Gerwig in director Noah Baumbach's brilliant indie screwball comedy, Mistress America, is also a freelance interior decorator of at least one hip laser hair removal center waiting room, a plagiarized T - shirt designer, a writer of stories — not short stories, though — an aspiring SAT tutor, and maybe a cabaret singer too, sometimes.

WHY: Adapted by esteemed crime writer Dennis Lehane from his own short story, «The Drop» doesn't have the same cynicism as past adaptions of the author's work, but it's a grimy little crime drama that harkens back to the great Sidney Lumet films of the 1970s.

Meanwhile, aspiring writer Tracy secretly uses Brooke as material for a short story, setting the stage for a series of dueling agendas that naturally erupt during the chaotic final act.

Highsmith (1921 - 1995), a Texas - born novelist and short - story writer, was much admired in Europe and is considered part of the Existentialist tradition started by Dostoyevsky, Conrad, Kafka and Camus.

In another standout track, Small Fry's writer / director MacLane shares his influences (a day of fast food research in Portland, working in a ball pit) and the stories behind all of the short's characters, i.e. the fictitious movies and TV shows where Neptuna and others come from (more thought went into that than you might have guessed).

by Walter Chaw Based on an award - winning novel by Andres Dubus III, son of Canadian novelist and short - story writer Andre Dubus, Vadim Perelman's hyphenate debut House of Sand and Fog is difficult to gauge on its own merits, given that the typically invasive grandiosity of another abominable James Horner score sinks the picture almost by itself.

Baumbach is one of cinema's sharpest writers of naturalistic dialogue, capable of ringing out layers of meaning from casual exchanges, and here he's at his pithy best: Bernard's offhand categorization of his student's short story to his teenage son as «very feminist but very interesting» belies depths of misogyny and elitism, while his graceless romantic counsel to Walt leads the teen to ditch his perfectly reasonable girlfriend, Sophie (Halley Feiffer), with the same projectiles of secondhand rhetoric that he unveiled to initially charm her.

Do you think the writers of «Saw» can create a horrifying feature film with so many short stories?

«Rust and Bone» Synopsis: An adaptation of Canadian writer Craig Davidson «s 2005 short story collection which depicts a savage world populated by afflicted prizefighters, fighting dogs, amputee sex addicts, and gamblers.

Based on the short story by Donald A. Wollheim, Mimic (1997), an early effort from Pan's Labyrinth writer - director Guillermo del Toro, finds Mira Sorvino (not long after her Mighty Aphrodite Oscar win) cast as a scientist who creates a new strain of insect to help combat a deadly disease that's being spread by cockroaches across New York City.

There's not a lot more to say as far as plot is concerned in regards to writer / director Andrew Haigh's (Weekend) sophomore feature 45 Years, itself a loose adaptation of the short story by writer David Constantine, yet the film itself is extraordinary.

Last week it was announced that Edgar Wright and Johnny Depp are working on a movie adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Fortunately, the Milk, and now The Guardian is reporting that four of the acclaimed writer's short stories are coming to the small screen.

Though it's uneven, there's a pleasant degree of warmth to the film, based on the award - winning short - story - turned - novel by sci - fi writer David Gerrod.

I caught up with writer - director Lauren Wolkstein for a quick chat recently to talk about the challenges of adapting a short story into a feature - length film and how she managed to maintain the mystery and thrill of the original short.

Adapted from the James Joyce story of the same name (it has featured in the acclaimed Irish writer's short works collection Dubliners), The Dead was Huston's 37th feature film as a director, and came just two years after his final Academy Award ® nomination for Prizzi's Honor.

Adapted for the screen by acclaimed horror writer Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed) from his short story of the same name, Rawhead Rex sees a hulking, ancient demon tearing a bloody swathe across the Irish countryside.

However in David Constantine's short story «In Another Country,» which writer - director Haigh adapts for the screen, the lack of a more populous family makes Kate wonder whether she has wasted almost half a century of her life with nothing much to show for it, no great accomplishment, not even a child.

Largely through novels and short stories, but also occasional screenplays and teleplays, King has become one of the most successful and well - known writers in modern history over the last four decades or so.