Hints and tips:
...The week before mine, Booker Prize-winner Shehan Karunatilaka spoke about establishing a writing routine and about “world-building”, how to create the internal rules for your book, be it fiction or non-fiction...
...John Banville is an Irish novelist, the author of the Booker Prize-winner “The Sea”....
...From Raymond Chandler to Peter Temple, crime has produced writers who combined both style and substance, shaping memorable sentences as they ratcheted up the tension....
...“Sir — It is very pleasant to be back in the pleasant air of Hampstead although the district now appears to be part of the Continent,” writes Raymond Savage in 1950. “ . . ....
...Cobain himself appears in “Carver and Cobain”, a two-part story in which Means connects the Nirvana singer with the writer Raymond Carver....
...Or could a graphic work with few or no written words (there are plenty; Raymond Briggs’s The Snowman is maybe the best known) win the Man Booker?...
...Last year, for one brief shining moment, the Man Booker committee’s steadfast opposition to putting crime fiction into contention for the prize was broken....
...Under the spell of Raymond Williams she switched to English in her third year and signed on to the social vision of cultural practice she would never abandon....
...Raymond Chandler....
...This Banville character was a piece of work: hired Irish muscle with heavyweight credentials, including the Man Booker prize for The Sea (2005). It figured....
...One summer morning earlier this year, John Banville, the Man Booker prizewinning novelist, sat down to start work on a new book....
...His latest, The Black-Eyed Blonde, brings back to literary life Raymond Chandler’s classic private eye, Philip Marlowe. Banville will be in conversation with the FT’s books editor Lorien Kite....
...As ambitious as a Bond film in its five-country narrative, the adaptation of Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid’s Booker prize-shortlisted book equates the economic fundamentalism of hard-headed western business...
...The title story, inspired by Raymond Carver’s famous collection of stories What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, features two couples arguing over the Holocaust....
...An upbeat trading statement also lifted Booker , the cash and carry chain, by 7.9 per cent to 74½p....
...Calvino, Chekhov, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Murray Bail. When did you know you were going to be a writer?...
...Richard Ford’s selection includes classic stories by authors including Eudora Welty and Raymond Carver, but also incorporates newer voices....
...He stars in the successful television drama Monk; she recently exited one of America’s most popular comedies, Everybody Loves Raymond. Heaton’s background matters more here than Shalhoub’s....
...Kelly Reichert, directing and co-writing (with the original story author Jon Raymond), wowed Sundance with her film. How could she not?...
...Apart from the Orange Prize, none of the big fiction prizes is open to stories: the Booker and the Whitbread do not seem to agree that small may be beautiful....
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