Sentences with phrase «writing of the new novel»

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The now rich and famous writer of legal thrillers, Scott Turow, wrote his first novel using only his morning commutes into New York City on the train.

What is interesting here is not simply that the everyday language of «a fine day» is determined by a set of new - fangled scientific abstractions, but also the fact that a novel written after the war dares to inhabit the virtual outlook of before.

• W. H. Mallock, The New Republic: It defies reason that a professional economist should have written one of the most brilliant satires of the nineteenth century (it appeared in 1877); a conversation novel, in the manner of Thomas Love Peacock, and just about as ingenious as any of his; a grand and ungracious burlesque of the Oxonian intellectuals and writers of the time, many of them Mallock's friends.

Marly Youmans's new novel, Maze of Blood, has an epigraph from Jorge Luis Borges (who wasn't writing for Marly or for me, but whose books I have read and reread over the years).

There are many recent novels in English, written by Indians, which reveal new dimensions of Indian religious life and illuminate the historical, philosophical, and religious studies of Hinduism: R. K. Narayan is one contemporary novelist whose works have excited students to further study of Hinduism and Indian culture.

Miscellany: published a novel, has some of a dissertation on Lincoln written, applied for the New Mexico State job that went to DeWayne Walker.

Adam Gopnik — like his pieces on France and the French — writing about Houllebecq (whose new novel is out) and Eric Zemmour (a French TV journalist with a book of diatribe against modern France) in the latest New Yorker, brings up Football: «The result of the new free market in football is that French footballers, like Thierry Henry and Arsene Wenger, have become heroes in North and West London&raqunew novel is out) and Eric Zemmour (a French TV journalist with a book of diatribe against modern France) in the latest New Yorker, brings up Football: «The result of the new free market in football is that French footballers, like Thierry Henry and Arsene Wenger, have become heroes in North and West London&raquNew Yorker, brings up Football: «The result of the new free market in football is that French footballers, like Thierry Henry and Arsene Wenger, have become heroes in North and West London&raqunew free market in football is that French footballers, like Thierry Henry and Arsene Wenger, have become heroes in North and West London».

Last week, it exploded again when former magazine editor Meghann Foye wrote in the New York Post that she wanted all the perks of having maternity leave — just without the kids, calling it «meternity,» which just happens to be the name of her new novNew York Post that she wanted all the perks of having maternity leave — just without the kids, calling it «meternity,» which just happens to be the name of her new novnew novel.

«In some sense it is an eerie return to some of the histories of the novel written by Victorians themselves, which tended to single out Austen and Scott as progenitors,» says Nicholas Dames, chair of the department of English and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York.

Andrew Stanton on his new film, John Carter Almost a century after it was written, Edgar Rice Burroughs's classic sci - fi novel, the swashbuckling interplanetary romance A Princess of Mars, is finally coming to the big screen.

E. O. Wilson says, of his new novel Anthill: «This is the first time anyone has written about the lives of ants from their point of view» (10 April, p 38).

New York, NY About Blog Check out this blog post by Nathan Bransford, the author of How to Write a Novel and the Jacob Wonderbar series Frequency about 1 post per week.

Written long before the sequels were published, Garland's script seizes on key ideas from the novel, but spins them in exciting new directions, using his source as a kind of leaping - off point (even the opening meteor detail is a bit of a departure, albeit one with rich other - worldly implications) from which he offers five tough women a chance to make first contact with this alien presence, and perhaps save the human race in the process.

Based off of the novel written by David Ebershoff, director Tom Hooper (Les Miserables) and actors Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) and Alicia Vikander (Ex-Machina) beautifully illustrate the powerful true story of Lili Elbe in their new film The Danish Girl.

This entire project has my full attention: Pet Sematary is my favorite Stephen King novel, and while the 1989 film was a pretty solid adaptation (King wrote the script himself), there are a lot of details that were left out of the film that could work perfectly in a new take on the material.

A parallel storyline to Charlie Brown's girl troubles involves the fearless beagle and pal Woodstock writing (on a old fashioned typewriter) an adventurous romance novel of the Ace trying to capture the heart of his new love Fifi, and defeat his nemesis The Red Baron.

According to Deadline, TBS is developing a new show written by Irvine Welsh, the author of the novel Trainspotting.

There's really not much to the plot other than for the protagonists to be chased around by the monster horde, while Stine seeks to write an all - new novel in the manner he wrote his old one (in manuscript form on a Smith - Corona typewriter that may have magic powers) with all of the characters he ever created on the hope that he can capture lightning in a bottle (or, in this case, a book) again.

«Liane [Moriarty, author of the novel Big Little Lies] wrote a novella of [new] stories, and most of them we're using.

If you are not aware of it, «Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter» is actually based on the New York Times Best Selling novel by Seth Grahame - Smith, author of «Pride and Prejudice and Zombies» (who also wrote this screenplay).

On the occasion of this week's U.K. release of a new film adaptation of Graham Greene's sinister classic 1938 novel Brighton Rock, Boyd Tonkin has written a piece for the Independent examining the esteemed British author's relationship with movies.

The extremely popular young adult novel Divergent was written by first time author Veronica Roth and has topped the New York Times Best Sellers list ever since being published in May of 2011 by Katherine Tegen Books / HarperCollins Publishers.

The End of the Affair is the new film written and directed by Oscar winner Neil Jordan (In Dreams, The Butcher Boy) based on the novel by Graham Green (The End of the Road, The Power and the Glory).

Karina has written and directed films, taken on prominent stage roles (including in plays directed by Jacques Rivette and Ingmar Bergman), had a successful singing career, and written four novels, but, of course, she is cited most often as Jean - Luc Godard's New Wave muse and first wife.

The 2008 novel was written as a series of letters and reached the number one position on the New York Times Best Seller List for paperback.

A new TV spot has arrived online for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the upcoming movie adaptation of Seth Grahame - Smith's bestselling novel, which is titled «Written in Blood».

The film follows the legendary and secretive author through his life — from his rebellious youth to the the bloody front lines of World War II, experiencing great love and terrible loss, a life of rejection, his writing in the pages of The New Yorker, and the PTSD - fueled writer's block that led to the birth of his iconic novel The Catcher In The Rye.

Heather (Lauren Ambrose) is a feisty, impulsive grad student in her mid-20s writing her master's thesis on Leonard Schiller (Frank Langella), a Jewish New York novelist in his 70s whose four published novels are all out of print.

For a new generation, the film, directed by William Friedkin from an Oscar - winning script by William Peter Blatty, who wrote the novel, will stir the same debate: Is the film a provocation about the nature of good and evil, or horror claptrap?

The new film is written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, and follows the initial story by Fancher and David Peoples based on Philip K. Dick «s novel «Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.»

In this week's special second segment, Whit Stillman talks with FC contributor Nick Pinkerton about his new film, Love & Friendship, adaptation, and the finer points of writing a novel.

Written by Matt Charman and directed by Kevin MacDonald, «Strange New Things» is an adaptation of Michel Faber's «The Book of Strange New Things,» a novel about an English man of faith who ends up also being a man in space; Brian Eno is providing the score.

That holds true even if the novel the film is based on was written by the same author (Darryl Ponicsan) who wrote «The Last Detail» (1970), and even if the new film is directed by one of the finest directors working today — Richard Linklater.

Relative new - comer Tate Taylor wrote and directed this adaptation of the best - selling novel by Kathryn Stockett and the risk by Disney and DreamWorks has paid off big time with its $ 200 million haul.

It stars Oscar winner Daniel Day Lewis (My Left Foot, Gangs of New York), emerging star Paul Dano (Little Miss Sunshine, L.I.E.) and was written for the screen and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, Punch Drunk Love), who adapted the story from Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil!.

If / Then, the newest Broadway musical by the writing and directing team behind Next to Normal, has all the emotional subtlety of a Nicholas Sparks novel.

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As it turns out, just before Wilson wrote the novel, he handled public relations for Larsen, who was the powerful head of Time - Life Publishing in New York.

As Shah finishes the interview and heads back to slog away again on her new novel, she laughs when asked if it's harder to write the beginning of a novel or the ending.

Also, being fairly new to the world of writing with only four of my own novels and one Kindle World's Novella under my belt, I felt it would be a great way to expand my horizons.

Amanda Hocking — who became the poster child for self - publishing on the Kindle after she made more than $ 2 million from a series of young - adult novels she wrote and published in the past year — signed a $ 2 - million deal earlier this year with St. Martin's Press, a unit of publishing giant Macmillan, to write a new series of young - adult novels (my colleague Cyndy Aleo wrote a series of posts recently based on her interviews with several young authors about the changes in the industry).

We also are commissioning in new areas in which we believe there's still a dearth of African authors — travel writing, crime, graphic novels.

Let's hear what's new (and old)... and we won't ignore the multitude of books on writing and illustrating graphic novels either.

One of his novels won a New American Writing Award, another was a New York Times notable mystery.

Though Martin's writing is always topnotch, her historical novels are my favorite of her works — and her 2003 novel, Property, set in antebellum New Orleans, is one of my favorite books of all time.

We're looking forward to new tales of the weird, magical and slightly creepy from the talented Link — and we can't wait to see how her writing translates into novel format.

As Trisha wrote once in an edition of BookPageXTRA: «The premise of Lionel Shriver's ninth novel sounds like a classic beach read: her heroine, children's book author Irina, must choose whether to stay with her longtime partner or embark on a new romance with a snooker star.

In fact, Balliett says she couldn't have written her new novel, Chasing Vermeer, without having taught for a decade at the University of Chicago's Laboratory...

Tom Doyle has written an exciting novel that is the beginning of a new series.

Our reviewer writes that in the novel, «fact and fantasy coalesce in a masterful story that shines a new light on one of the darkest eras of history.»