Sentences with phrase «young novelist who»

«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.»

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

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Upon hearing the young man's name, the Nobel Prize «winning novelist asked: «Aren't you the child who, having been left an orphan by his poor mother and distanced himself from his father, went off to live the life of the kibbutz?

For he is one of a group of young American novelists who, writing from a post-Christian stance, challenge the church to rethink its faith.

Novelist Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., first gained a following on American college campuses as a cult figure for young readers who identified with his comic and pessimistic view of the world.

PEOPLE PLACES THINGS tells the story of Will Henry (Jemaine Clement), a newly single graphic novelist father balancing single - parenting his young twin daughters, writers block, a classroom full students, all the while exploring and navigating the rich complexities of new love and letting go of the woman who left him.

It's a mild disappointment, but still more agreeable viewing than Alex Ross Perry's adeptly abrasive Listen Up Philip (Eureka, 15), in which Jason Schwartzman's young, chronically unpleasant New York novelist rails against all and any who might obstruct, oppose or simply ignore his perceived genius, bypassing his out - of - patience girlfriend (a glowing, film - crowning Elisabeth Moss) and stopping only at his own cross-generational foil: the Philip Roth - style literary titan (Jonathan Pryce) who provided the very model for his self - styled misanthropy.

Theron's Mavis is a young adult novelist at the end of her personal and professional rope, an erstwhile winner of the «best hair» competition in high school who since then has gone to the big city (Minneapolis in this case) and made her mark.

«Listen Up Philip» starred Schwartzman as a narcissistic novelist who butts heads with anyone around him, while «Queen of Earth» followed an emotionally unbalanced young woman played by Elisabeth Moss who suffers a psychological breakdown during a visit to a friend's lake house.

He talks, in «Frames of Mind,» about Jean - Paul Sartre, a famous French philosopher, and novelist who was «extremely precocious» as a young child but «so skilled at mimicking adults, including their style and register of talk, that by age five he could enchant audiences with his linguistic fluency.»

WRITERS IN THE SCHOOLS RESIDENCY Writers in the Schools (WITS), a program of Seattle Arts & Lectures, is looking for creative writers — poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, cartoonists / graphic novelists, and playwrights — who are passionate about teaching the power and pleasure of writing to young people and who are excited to collaborate with public school teachers.

So 18 months ago my wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch and I met for dinner with two of the top young writers who know computers and this coming new world, Michael Totten, a freelance Mideast writer and blogger and Scott William Carter the short story writer and published young adult novelist.

For older teens, this is a haunting, courageous memoir by Chickasaw novelist Hogan, much of it about young people who are lost, broken, and strong.

Short story writer, Chinese novelist and the youngest, first female President of the Chinese Writers Association (elected at age 49 in 2006), Tie Ning has long written about ordinary female protagonists who are often from rural backgrounds.

Our first graphic novelist on this list, Mat Johnson most recently released Right State, a political thriller for young adults that follows a newscaster who tries to foil an assignation.

Never, though, has a genre seemed more ambiguous, more masterfully and provocatively tampered with than in this incredible novel.A biographer is writing about a novelist named John Coetzee in Summertime, interviewing five people who touched Coetzee's life as a young man living in Cape Town.

Serena Frome is a young Cambridge grad who works at MI5 in the «Sweet Tooth» program, surreptitiously encouraging writers to produce anti-Soviet fiction, only to fall in love with her assignment, novelist Tom Haley.

The startling new novel from a brilliant young Irish novelist on the rise, who «has a sensational gift for a sentence» (Colum McCann).

Ask John, who now works as a production editor at Booklist, how his career as a young - adult novelist evolved, and he graciously acknowledges the support he received from his Booklist colleagues.

We present to you: Daccari Buchelli, a British fantasy novelist, who developed a love for reading at a young age.

Also: a novelist was once talking down to a young photographer who'd been sent to take his picture.

The award was named for William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young writers, and is affiliated with PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists), the international writers» organization.

Another up - and - coming novelist who is one of the youngest and more successful self - published authors in the UK has recently launched his campaign on the crowdfunding site (disclaimer: Ben Galley is a client of BB eBooks).

Recently, Gene Luen Yang, who has had several titles published through First Second, was named the first ever graphic novelist to be the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.