Sentences with phrase «years on my memoir»

I've spent 6 years on my memoir and much of the editing I've done myself but I know I need a professional set of eyes to go over it before publishing.

Not exact matches

About a dozen years ago, mega-best-selling author Stephen King wrote a book about the craft of writing that became an instant bestseller: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.

Forty years after its first release, advertising legend Della Femina's memoir of life on Madison Avenue in the 1960s has become part of the Don Draper canon, helping guide the fictional world of the television series Mad Men.

Narrated through scattered morsels spanning the 1950s and 1960s, Roiphe's memoir is less about her six - year marriage to an artist who left her every night for prostitutes and alcohol, and more about her own devastating dependence on artistic prestige.

(Can't give you the details as I'm writing a memoir and don't wish to give the good bits away in case it gets published) Even though I have doubted all the other stuff along the years — promises etc that didn't come to pass, despite my diligent prayer and obedience, I still cry out to «something out there» because I am spirit in a human body, and know that I am on a journey that has to mean more than simply this earthly plain.

I do not give up on the hope that, after some years of penance, a chastened Rembert Weakland might write a reflective memoir, having by then discovered, please God, a measure of the wisdom that was so conspicuously absent from a brilliant career built upon prideful foundations that now, through a combination of tragedy and farce, lie in ruins.

As a psychotherapist in private practice for 30 years and the author of a book on parenting, I «m not surprised that American parents are considering a memoir as a guide for child rearing.

French Kids Eat Everything is a surprisingly charming memoir about a family who moved to France with two picky eaters in tow and returned to Canada a year later with a happier, healthier, more educated outlook on food.

Hillary Clinton will travel to Milwaukee on Nov. 9 — one year and one day after she lost to Trump on Election Day — to discuss «What Happened,» her upcoming memoir about her defeat.

Mr Brown, who has just published a memoir, talks about a possible «game changer» on Brexit, the measures needed to stop Scotland becoming like Catalonia and his belief that political leaders have a «shelf life» of about six years.

It could be described as a busman's holiday: the most popular book MPs will be «relaxing» with on their summer breaks this year is Peter Mandelson's memoir of New Labour, The Third Man.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo earned $ 376,667 from his memoir «All Thing Possible» released last year, burnishing his $ 553,371 income last year, according to his tax returns made public on Wednesday.

Ms. Calcaterra, 46, now working for Governor Andrew Cuomo as executive director of a state commission investigating public corruption, said she worked on the book for several years and even took memoir - writing classes in New York City.

This atlas, published as the fifteenth Memoir of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, represents the culmination of nearly five years of work and thousands of man - hours of digital investigation on the only two associated, near - complete skeletons of the dodo in existence.

Written by the blogger behind Feed Me Phoebe, this memoir follows Lapine through a year of experimenting with lifestyle changes, devoting a month each to topics like green beauty, gut health, fitness, stress, and hormonal regulation, all along reporting on what works for her and what doesn't.

The Tv programme is based on Piper Kerman's memoir «Orange Is The New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison»

Champion against sexual misconduct and a seven - plus year run on Capitol Hill, she has written a new memoir.

Spira's funny and witty tell - all memoir of over 250 dates in 15 years of online dating was released on Valentine's Day and hit the best - seller list on Amazon.com.

In 2009, she penned a memoir reflecting on the ups and downs of over 250 online dates over the course of 15 years.

Seven years ago, author Julie Spira released her bestselling memoir and online dating book, The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online, which chronicled her 15 - year romantic journey while looking for love on the Internet.

Handler's critically acclaimed first memoir, «Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors,» chronicling his astonishing recovery from acute leukemia over 25 years ago, was published in 1996.

Like the book on which it's based, a memoir by Wiseau's «The Room» co-star Greg Sestero and writer Tom Bissell, the events of «The Disaster Artist» unfold not from Tommy's point of view, but from the perspective of Greg (Dave Franco), an aspiring 19 - year - old actor who meets the 40 - something Tommy in a San Francisco theater class.

Based on the memoir by Solomon Northup (as told to David Wilson) and adapted for the screen by John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave sees an affluent black American — a violinist and family man born free in New York state - pitched into a waking nightmare when he's kidnapped by slavers in 1841.

Ebert tweeted this morning that his memoir, «Life Itself,» which was published last year, and recently hit as a paperback, «has been optioned for a doc by Steve James («Hoop Dreams «-RRB- and Steven Zaillian, with Martin Scorsese as exec producer» And Ebert has expanded on the news a little, telling Matt Singer at Criticwire «This dropped out of the blue.

12 Years A Slave is based on the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free black man in the North, and a skilled carpenter and fiddler, who was lured to Washington, D.C. by a pair of circus promoters in 1841, then kidnapped and sold into slavery in New Orleans.

This year we had three strong, very different nominees — Denis Côté's documentary meditation on captive animals; Michael Dowse's wildly profane yet tender hockey comedy; and Sarah Polley's genre - bending family memoir.

A new trailer has arrived online for Miracles From Heaven, which is based on the memoir of the same name by Christy Beam and tells the story of her 12 year old daughter's near death experience.

«True Story,» April 10 Based on the memoir by former top journalist Michael Finkel, «True Story» follows Finkel (Jonah Hill) and murderer Christian Longo (James Franco)-- who lived for years outside the U.S. using Finkel's name — as the journalist dives into the psyche of one of the FBI's most wanted killers and tries to clear his name.

Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, adapted by John Ridley from Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir, is structured as a peripatetic journey to, and through, hell on earth.

From a bit of research, it appears that Clark's first diary on the experience paints him as anything but innocent or floored by Monroe, while the second memoir, filling in the blanks forty years later, was rather far - fetched.

She burst onto the scene with a memoir about her brief career working as a stripper before winning an Oscar for her work on Juno, one of the finest films released in a great year for cinema, 2007.

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool is based on actor Peter Turner's slim, self - deprecating memoir of his love affair with Grahame, first published in 1986 some five years after her death.

The education of An Education (Sony), based on the memoir by Lynn Barber, comes to a smart and mature sixteen - year - old girl who, eager to escape her petite bourgeois life in early 1960s London, is swept off her feet by a confident, charming and worldly man with a lot of secrets.

The story, based on the memoir by Amos Oz, revolves around Oz's childhood in Jerusalem in the period following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel, in addition to his teenage years on a kibbutz.

The drama is based on Garrard Conley's memoir of the same name and stars Hedges as the son of a Baptist pastor who is outed as gay at 19 years old and sent to a conversation therapy program.

Based on Roger's 2011 memoir and directed by Hoop Dreams» Steve James, the film traces the outspoken film critic's professional and personal journey from Pulitzer Prize - winning writer at the Chicago Sun - Times to his rise as a beloved TV movie reviewer alongside Gene Siskel and, ultimately, to his 11 - year battle with thyroid cancer, which ended in April when he died at age 70.

But «The Big Stick» is not one of those semi-awful, schematically spelled out conflicts such as the unfunny «My Big Fat Greek Wedding», but rather features a crackerjack script graced with a marvelous ensemble that mixes melodrama and broad comedy, and comes across like a hilarious memoir based on Kumail's actual marriage to Emily in one of the most beautiful stories of love and its conflicts you may run across in the theaters this year.

Based on Northup's substantially true and only recently rediscovered 1853 abolitionist memoir, 12 Years A Slave is brutal and unflinching in its depiction of the thoroughly unglamorous lives of slaves.

It was therefore, not surprising to discover that Being Flynn is also based on a book, a memoir titled «Another Bullshit Night in Suck City,» and one that Weitz has been working on adapting for a number of years.

Based on a graphic - novel memoir by cartoonist Derf Backderf — who was actually a high school classmate of Dahmer's in Akron, Ohio, in the late»70s — the film follows «Jeff» through his last year of high school, chronicling his struggle with his sexuality, his ultimately futile attempts to make and keep friends, and the slow buildup of warning signs about the deeply disturbed man Dahmer would become.

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Based on the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free man kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841, 12 Years a Slave is joined in the Best Film category by Alfonso Cuarón's sci - fi thriller Gravity and Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside...

We last ran one of these nearly two years ago, and all five of our picks have gone on to big things — Emma Forrest has David Yates and Emma Watson adapting her memoir «Your Voice In My Head ``; «Prometheus» writer Jon Spaihts just got hired to reboot «The Mummy ``; Michael Diliberti is writing «Little White Corvette» for Emma Stone; Brian K. Vaughan is adapting Stephen King «s «Under The Dome» for Showtime, and Liz Meriwether created the smash - hit sitcom «New Girl.»

Film Stars is based on the 1987 memoir by British actor Peter Turner, who was several decades Grahame's junior, and who became her romantic partner and caretaker in the final years of her life.

It reminded me of the incident referenced in adopted daughter Christina's tell - all memoir, «Mommie Dearest,» where the 68 - year - old Crawford portrayed her daughter's character on the soap The Secret Storm.

Based on the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free man kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841, 12 Years a Slave is joined in the Best Film category by Alfonso Cuarón's sci - fi thriller Gravity and Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis, a melancholic comedy set in the»60s New York folk scene.

«A Walk in the Woods,» based on Bill Bryson's beloved 1998 memoir, is destined to be compared to last year's «Wild.»

Only three of the works on the list could be considered recent, appearing within the last 20 years: Stephen Chbosky's epistolary novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999); Marjane Satrapi's graphic memoir Persepolis, about growing up during the Iranian Revolution (2000 — 03); and Cormac McCarthy's brutal, dark novel The Road (2006).

And Etgar Keret was here when we published his memoir The Seven Good Years (translated from Hebrew) and his humor and effervescence on the page and in person was infectious.

Dario's nonfiction book, Aegean Dream, the bittersweet memoir of a year spent on the small Greek island of Skópelos (the real Mamma Mia!