It was the second day of a short-story course, and all the students were at loose outdoors with notebooks and pens.
Readers will know Ms Maitland as a novelist and short-story writer.
More than a dozen novels and short-story collections followed.
Eighteen years ago, John Sayles might have boiled down this back-to-basics portrait of a paralyzed, bitter white soap star (Mary McDonnell) and her strong-willed black caretaker (Alfre Woodard) into a twenty-page short story.
On the side, he wrote fiction, including two short story collections and seven novels, which ranged from a coming-of-age story about a rebellious teenager who gets thrown out of school, to a book about a middle-age man who befriends a gangster to impress his son.
Caldwell said Sotheby's began talks with the family after a previously unpublished and untitled 12-page, short story by Faulkner was found among literary papers at the family farm in Charlottesville, Va.
Dedicated to creating "inspirational ... films that offer compelling, positive messages, " Crusader's first film will be something called Sound of Thunder, based on a Ray Bradbury short story about a posse of big-game hunters who go back in time to chase dinosaurs and change history.
Right now, I see the Lime story as a short term (1-2 year) turnaround play.
Looking past the short-run, China has a great growth story.
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Short story about two neighbors in a California canyon, a thirteen-year-old boy, Dill, who lives with his mother, and a Japanese man, Sanjuro, who lives with his wife.
So how did a slender 33-year-old woman in panther leggings, with one short story to her name, get teed up to be the next big thing in publishing?
ABSTRACT:Short story about two neighbors in a California canyon, a thirteen-year-old boy, Dill, who lives with his mother, and a Japanese man, Sanjuro, who lives with his wife.
Others, such as my favorite living short-story writer, Alice Munro, may start with a memory.
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It kicks it squarely through the goalposts with a mind-blowing story set in an alternate reality that may be only a short trip from our real-world track.
This is a single short story, so it is hard to say too much without going spoiler-crazy.
But this digital Battle of Verdun is not the only challenge for Google as Mozilla is also launching its mobile operating system: FirefoxOS. To make a long story short, FirefoxOS is the equivalent of ChromeOS for smartphones: a light-weight mobile operating system where the user interface and all applications are web-based.
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Among other of Mr. Bradbury's widely known works were "The Martian Chronicles, " "The Illustrated Man, " both short-story collections, and "Something Wicked This Way Comes, " a novel.
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The company unveiled its slate of 2013-14 offerings Thursday, which also includes a stage adaptation of Alan Sillitoe's beloved short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" adapted by British playwright Roy Williams.
Long story short, hosting the NBA All-Star Game in Las Vegas was truly a novelty and the prices reflected this.
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Crowdsourcing sites often pitch their work to stay-at-home moms or students who can pick up a few tasks to do during short breaks, as this earlier story pointed out.
Short story about a man who participates in a charity auction to help raise money for a community anti-drug effort.
ABSTRACT:Short story about a man who participates in a charity auction to help raise money for a community anti-drug effort.
Flooding in the Midwest is a horror story for the barge transport business, with grains not getting to market and earnings taking a short-term hit.
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