Abish has been rather quiet in the quarter century since this compelling, prize-winning, fully stocked novel appeared: in 1990, he published a third short-story collection, "99: the New Meaning," a limited edition of five collagist stories, and in 1993 a novel, "Eclipse Fever," set mostly in Mexico, with American and Mexican characters.
Before winning the Man Booker Prize for her compelling family saga, The Gathering, Enright was best known for off-beat books including The Wig My Father Wore and The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch.
That cavil aside, Ketchup Clouds is risky, confident, compelling and ends, as all prize-winning teen novels seemingly must, with hope for redemption and self-forgiveness.
Crafting the compelling script, which won the screenwriting prize at Venice, was a man best known as a successful television executive.
It may be logically coherent or even compelling, a mark of philosophical distinction prized by Pure-conversation connoisseurs, but what real bearing does it have on politics and government?
It makes this moment in educational innovation in school buildings and clouds -- and Sugata Mitra's justly deserved TED Prize--even more compelling and even more challenging.
Pop is full of odd couples, but this year's Mercury prize shortlist contains a particularly compelling one.
This post was produced by The Huffington Post and the Hult Prize Foundation Hult Prize@ program, in which teams of college and university entrepreneurs compete for funding for compelling social business ideas, including a grand prize of US$1,000,000.
Green Valley, Paseo Verde Parkway From the Pulitzer-prize winning author comes the compelling story of Harmony, an ageing Las Vegas showgirl, in a novel that is both tough and tender.
A third must-do is to take a long-term view: the really big prize lies much further upstream, where compelling evidence is emerging of return on investment from public health programmes and work in schools, communities and housing.
THIS week the Institute for Economic Affairs, a British think-tank, awarded a prize of €100,000 ($138,000) for the most compelling plan for a British withdrawal from the European Union.
