On the evidence of this book, she's not quite ready to publish either a short story collection or a volume of poems. |
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She has also won acclaim as a short story writer, with one of her collections being aired on TV as a prime time serial. |
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In a brilliantly wry and acidly accurate mini short story he demonstrates the shocking swerving from honesty and truth by the government. |
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This year Bealtaine has launched a short story competition which will be adjudicated by the eminent writer and editor David Marcus. |
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Mansfield, born in turn-of-the-century New Zealand, was one of the first modern short story writers to fuse prose and poetry. |
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The short story writers I have enjoyed most recently are Etgar Keret and Jhumpa Lahiri. |
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I add this latest rejection slip from a literary magazine to my collection and turn back to the short story I had submitted. |
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Let's consider his latest among a representative sample of 2004's notable short story collections. |
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Publishers, agents and editors are always talking about how short story collections and anthologies don't sell very well. |
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As Gilman points out, in a short story this would be the moment where she'd realize that the idol of her dreams was in fact a lewd creep. |
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The script itself could almost read as a short story, and lexically, Walsh hasn't shied an inch. |
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Ironically, the action is over a short story concerning a previous libel action. |
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After the First World War public taste shifted away from the short story to the novel-length tale. |
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Mark Paterson wrote his first short story around the same time he got fed up with teachers college. |
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The short story cycle looks back to oral traditions of narrative while embodying signs of modernity. |
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Of course, one of the problems with adapting a short story into a feature length film is the necessity to stretch and pad the story out. |
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Bill and Al's flourishing line of bimonthly comics brought the dead-of-night short story to lurid, four-color life. |
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Like writing a novel or a short story or a poem, songwriting is the art of telling a story. |
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If I want to include a dead celebrity as a character in a short story or novel what is stopping me from doing so? |
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Here, however, is a brief summary of the history of the short story as conceived by our literary masters. |
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Later, it comes out in the form of a short story or a novel and that is the best way for a writer to react. |
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Lots of writers use the short story to develop a scene from a greater, future work. |
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Group 3 read the short story with the tested vocabulary and used the monolingual English dictionary while taking the same multiple-choice test. |
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The short story goes its way without taking much notice of these signposts. |
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She wants to move on to the short story, but I see her father's ghost is still unappeased. |
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The tasks are often to write a short story under a certain amount of words. |
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Just go to this link and find a short story that sends the shivers down to your skivvies. |
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Baird who has studied mythology since she was a child equips every card with a musing short story on its back cover. |
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In typical Borgesian style, the search for truth in this short story is always a futile effort. |
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The official history of the short story is written by the professors of English Literature, God bless their little cotton socks. |
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The short story also foreshadows Hemingway's fascination with blood, spectacle and bullfights. |
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This virtuoso short story collection is emotionally uncompromising and stylistically daring. |
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We're trying to discern the difference between a short story, a vignette, a novella, and a novelette. |
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Asher has previously published four other works, two novellas and two short story collections, Gridlinked is his first full length novel. |
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This collection consists of two short story manuscripts, a carbon copy of a thesis, and records of thesis-related expenditures. |
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I wrote a short story a good few months ago and my main character haunts me, I'm kind of in love with her. |
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A good short story is a fictional vision which, in its optimal form, happens to have a short page count. |
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A good short story is hellish hard to write, so you can agonize over them, but most of the time I'm done with the first draft in a week. |
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In Irving's short story, the Hessian was killed by a cannon ball rather than a bunch of puny colonials. |
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While I was researching a short story, I gradually fell in love with the hula. |
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In Anthony Trollope's short story The Spotted Dog, one of the characters visits the editor of a Victorian penny dreadful in his office. |
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Welles liked the brevity and compactness, the swiftness and shock of a good short story. |
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The short story is considered by many fictioneers to be the most difficult mode of narrative expression. |
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The failed poet writes short stories, and the failed short story writer writes novels. |
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The novel is Barnes's first foray into the genre after a long flirtation with flash fiction and the longer short story. |
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With the purpose of making better known a disappearing craft, the author of the article presents also a short story of coopery. |
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She didn't want to write another novel immediately, so the short story is the perfect form. |
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Before the First World War, the short story was detective fiction's predominant literary form. |
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Each week, two participants will email a short story or novel excerpt to the entire class, to be read and critiqued the following week. |
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But it did spark a curiosity that itched until she completed a short story. |
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Moreover, the narrative structure of short story cycles mirrors the episodic and unchronological method of oral narration. |
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In this sense, she reflects the same concerns as another emblematic mother-daughter short story cycle, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. |
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Although the end is enigmatic like a short story, the film's strength is in its dialogues full of irony. |
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Updike's short story lines up four episodes, all told from a different point of view. |
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Back on the warm sand, I lay down on my stomach, pencil in hand ready to write my short story. |
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The first work of mine to be published in a book wasn't a short story or a novel. |
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It began as a longish, handwritten short story about a man who finds a great deal of money by accident and who subsequently sees his family torn apart by greed. |
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I once asked if I could lower the tone and be allowed to read a short story. |
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What is true of the theatre is also true of the short story. |
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Reading the text as a short story cycle and not just a collection reveals Lahiri's careful balancing of a range of representations and her intricate use of pattern and motif. |
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A short story from an army veteran about the last time U.S. soldiers were in Iraq and the impossible choices they faced there. |
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So we were given two characters, an opening line, a setting and scenario and told to write. I intended to write a very short story but, as usual, got carried away with myself. |
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Before You suffocate Your Own Fool Selfby Danielle Evans A powerful short story collection from a rising star. |
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I feel unmotivated to work on the short story, rather than do nothing, I simply switch to the novel draft or a nonfiction article. |
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Your Tumblr blog project begins with a photograph that inspires a short short story. |
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Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story, "The Cask of Amontillado," is loaded with irony, and there are several excellent examples of verbal irony to be found. |
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A study in American military control, a haunting sui generis novel, and a playful new short story collection. |
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The other stories too reflect the vibrancy and dynamism of the short story as a form that constantly offers something new in craft, technique and theme. |
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Despite its comparative shortness, the short story is open to both the random and the absolutely determined to an extent that would founder most novels. |
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Entries have also been flowing in for the Young Achiever of the Year Award, and for the short story, creative writing and photography competitions. |
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In the final stages of emphysema he summoned up the energy to make his final film, a British-German-American co-production based on an elegiac short story. |
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For the fiction writer, the prose poem may be exhilarating because it allows an escape from the exigencies of the novel, novella, and short story. |
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Famous in his lifetime as a journalist, literary editor, autobiographer and short story writer, he is now out of print and increasingly forgotten. |
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Unlike many short story authors, Oates writes interestingly about a vast range of subjects, and has the skill with which to make her tales truly mesmerising. |
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Write a short story, featuring a character going through something emotional, it can be anything from anger to happiness, from sadness to elatedness. |
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For however small the short story form, it is not, as mcgrath says, minor. |
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In 1909, a short story by John Buchan entitled The Company of the Marjolaine was published in Blackwood's Magazine. |
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Urdu afsana is a kind of Urdu prose in which much experiments have been done by the short story writers from Munshi Prem Chand to Naeem Baig. |
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Baum would later recount the actual story in an article, but the short story is told from the point of view of the actor playing the ghost. |
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This short story was inspired by the life of Lord Byron and his poem The Giaour. |
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His short story collection Tales of the Unexpected was adapted to a successful TV series of the same name, beginning with Man From the South. |
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In 1962 Waugh began work on his autobiography, and that same year wrote his final fiction, the long short story Basil Seal Rides Again. |
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The Young Bond series of novels was started by Charlie Higson and, between 2005 and 2009, five novels and one short story were published. |
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Featuring characters from a short story written by Bowie, the album achieved UK and US chart success, and yielded three Top 40 UK singles. |
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Thomas Mann, a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. |
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Edwards won the award for best short story in 2008 with 'The Bookbinder's Apprentice. |
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Alice Munro's The Beggar Maid was shortlisted in 1980, and remains the only short story collection to be shortlisted. |
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The author of The kite Runner picks his favorite short story collections. |
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Somerset Maugham, was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. |
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Mohan Sikka's short story 'The Railway Aunty', on which the film is based, uses its atmosphere of defeat and rancidness much better. |
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Sometimes a column has the economy and rhythm of a short story. |
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In 1969, his first short story with the intriguing title I Was A Teenage Grave Robber was published. |
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For the video of the song, Loy himself scripted a short story to send the message across. |
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I was first inspired to write by an American Armenian short story writer called William Saroyan. |
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How did your favorite short story writers shape your sensibility? |
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Did you set any technical challenges with this short story collection? |
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In the scene in which Ennis hears of Jack's death, the film is more definitive than Proulx's short story that it was the result of gay bashing. |
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The Cushing version of the character reappears in both comic strips and a short story, the latter attempting to reconcile the film continuity with that of the series. |
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At the end of 1907 he won a short story competition in the Nottingham Guardian, the first time that he had gained any wider recognition for his literary talents. |
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Except for A Pale View of Hills and The Buried Giant, all of Ishiguro's novels and his short story collection have been shortlisted for major awards. |
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The short story collection Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories was published in 1914 by Stoker's widow, Florence Stoker, who was also his literary executrix. |
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A glimpse at Shadow's travels in Europe is found in a short story which finds him in Scotland, applying the same concepts developed in American Gods to the story of Beowulf. |
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Greene received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay for the 1948 Carol Reed film The Fallen Idol, adapted from his own short story The Basement Room. |
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She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. |
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The series was released to tie in with Dahl's short story anthology of the same name, which had introduced readers to many motifs that were common in his writing. |
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The latter, an Italian word for a short story to distinguish it from a novel, has been used in English since the 18th century for a work that falls somewhere in between. |
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The opera is based on a short story by the writer William Heinesen. |
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Annie Proulx's short story tells in wrenchingly stark prose. |
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Hawthorne was predominantly a short story writer in his early career. |
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Between intense firefights with your enemy, the cut scenes slowly reveal a deep relationship between Fenix and Dom that isn't fully developed in the game's short story line. |
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