Acclaimed filmmaker Alexander Payne uses satire to take the measure of his times. Award-winning writer Leo Adam Biga draws on 20 years covering the writer-director to take the measure of this singular cinema artist and his work. Film scholar-author Thomas Schatz (“The Genius of the System”...
Novel Writing and Development From Premise to Publication HASTE IS A WRITER'S SECOND WORST ENEMY, HUBRIS BEING THE FIRST, AND BAD ADVICE IS SECONDS BEHIND THEM BOTH... Welcome to Author Connect. Created and nurtured by Algonkian Writer Events and Programs, this website is dedicated to ...
Army colonel, with many of his assignments focused on speaking and briefing. In one, he was the Senior Intelligence Briefer to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The book cover says the S3P3 System is 'proven.' How can such a claim be made? Because if he was ineffective in ...
He served in both the US Army and the Israeli Defense Forces. Mike moved to Israel in 1978 and lives in Raanana. He has self-published ten books of poetry, four novels, a book of short stories, and a book of essays. Mike is married to Talma. They have 3 sons and 8 grandchildren....
wealthy to paint government as the villain. If they keep repeating “government is bad/unfettered capitalism is good” incessantly enough, the dummies hearing this will become the flatfoot soldiers in a pasty flabby army that’ll cut their own fat throats for the rarefied in our Second Gilded...
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In 2014, having taken early retirement from teaching photography, I embarked on a series of walks along the arterial roads of Manchester. See also Bury New Road and Cheetham Hill Road and Rochdale Road and Oldham Road and Ashton New Road and Ashton Old Road and Hyde Road and Stockport Road...
status. Bob rushed back to the States, and George Garrett got him accepted into the MFA writing program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro within twenty-four hours. I remained confident that a major leg surgery done four years earlier would keep me out of the Army. I was ...
Army Lieutenant from Kansas, recorded on a cheap cassette recorder, his mouth too close to the microphone, and he was in a bathroom stall. The tape was sent to the embassy and released to the media. The attack would be viewed as another skirmish in the war on terrorism. Nothing was ...
Over the years and over the series McCall Smith has won just about every crime writing award, been translated into just about every language and sold millions of copies. One might reasonably ask what McCall Smith, writing away in his study in rainy far-off Edinburgh is doing creating The No...