Sentences with phrase «young novelist»

Ruby Sparks tells the story of a successful young novelist who starts to suffer from writer's block.

The Sydney Morning Herald named her Best Young Novelist of the Year 2015.

Young novelist Herman Melville visits ageing Thomas Nickerson, the only survivor of the Essex, a whaling ship sunk decades earlier by a great white whale.

Aspiring young novelists in North America often get their start by writing fan - fiction and developing a ravenous following on websites such as Wattpad.

An aspiring young novelist shadows and studies strangers, rather innocently, for inspiration until he gets sucked in by a charismatic man in a suit who turns out to be a petty thief.

Richard LaGravenese directs Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan in this screen adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's musical about the relationship between a struggling actress and a rising young novelist.

The relationship that develops between young novelist Davy (Brian Geraghty, of The Hurt Locker) and his sultry mystery caller is fraught with complications and secrecy, but thanks to Alvarez, who based his screenplay on an autobiographical GQ article by Davy Rothbart, their story never hits a false note.

If you're a New Yorker, I'll be appearing at Brooklyn College on March 19 with the poet Dana White and playwright Donna Di Novelli — a brief reading from each of us will be followed by a Q & A. Nashville's Parnassus Bookstore has acclaimed young novelist Amy Greene (Bloodroot) stopping by on Monday evening, March 3, to read from her new novel, Long Man, which has received wonderful advance word.

Additionally, it was my intention to support my daughter through the month of November as we joined the Young Writer's Program which encourages young novelists to give it a go.

She was a hot young novelist whose downfall offers a chance to expound upon everything from the book business to the college - application frenzy, with a dash of Harvard schadenfreude thrown in.

Granta named him one of America's Best Young Novelists.

As a young novelist and his wife are coping with the loss of their child, their lives are turned upside down when a panicked girl appears at their home in the middle of the night with stories of masked intruders stalking her.

Alex Ross Perry's movie is about two male literary narcissists, a young novelist named Philip (Jason Schwartzman) and an acclaimed, formerly prolific novelist named Ike Zimmerman (Jonathan Pryce), a transparent fictionalization of Philip Roth.

The film's flash - forward / flashback conceit, scripted by Charles Leavitt, is that, 30 years later, the young novelist Herman Melville bribes the Essex's sole living survivor, Tom Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson), to unload to him the true story, as opposed to the whitewashed official version, of what happened aboard the Essex and its aftermath.

Philip Friedman (Jason Schwartzman) is a young novelist and full - time depressive living with girlfriend and professional photographer Ashley (Elisabeth Moss).

Published in 1995, Alan Warner's debut novel Morven Callar was a critical hit and bestseller and won the young novelist the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award.

While the Women are Sleeping — The latest from veteran director Wayne Wang stars Takeshi Kitano as a creepy guy who befriends a young novelist who is suffering from writer's block while on vacation with his wife.

Pola X Adaptation of Melville's novel Pierre, or the Ambiguities, which follows the strange emotional journey of a young novelist (Guillaume Depardieu).

In addition, teachers can contact local bookstores and arrange for their young novelists to give readings.

Glen Duncan was named by The Times Literary Supplement as one of Britain's «twenty best young novelists».

Krauss» latest novel has two threads: one, the disappearance of a wealthy man in Tel Aviv; and two, a young novelist and mother of two who flees her failing marriage to seek a creative spark in Tel Aviv.

Ashley Bell By Dean Koontz Bantam • $ 9.99 • ISBN 9780345545985 In Koontz's mystical, mind - boggling thriller, a young novelist who's cured of brain cancer must fulfill her destiny by saving the life of Ashley Bell, a woman she's never met.

The most successful of these writers is David Guterson, who was recently named by the tony journal Granta as one of America's twenty best young novelists.

«Her detailed explanation of how difficult it's become for a young novelist who isn't a Twitter diva or Facebook star to get published these days made me thank the gods that I came of age before barbaric electrons ate the printing press.»

A LOT of writing questions from a young novelist First of all, I must say that your writing tips have been amazingly helpful.