Jacobson is a highly self-conscious writer, and the reader's possible objections to all this feature heavily in this story.
Not surprisingly, the difficulty of balancing two very different identities — that of Styron the public figure and Styron the intensely private, highly self-conscious writer — is evident throughout.
Kissinger is a highly self-conscious writer, and he knows when he is appearing a little too admiring of Le Duc Tho.
He is an impresario in the tradition that runs from the Beats and Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights bookstore through Tom Wolfe's New Journalism: very much the self-conscious writer of his time; a literary brand manager.
That's thanks both to its beautifully bittersweet writing and thoroughly organic performances, not only from Tambor but also from the actors playing Maura's three kids, each questioning their own identities: Gaby Hoffmann as wayward, body-image-conscious writer Ali, Jay Duplass as disaffected music producer Josh, and Amy Landecker as bisexually-confused housewife Sarah.
Mostly Mr. Fish and his fiercely committed performers are dedicating their energies to animating his brilliant, funny, self-conscious writer's voice, whether through his recounting of his post-Sept.
On a wider scale, however, she is a capable, lyric-conscious writer who comes up occasionally with a stirring song but doesn't offer the radical or consistently arresting vision of our most commanding pop-rock figures.
Leibovich, at once a supremely confident and strangely self-conscious writer, made this easy by holding a series of unusual conversations with people around town about what he's writing.
A swift read and half the length of most novels today, Gatsby rewards the aspiring novelist looking less for obvious symbols and themes -- the prey of the analytical assignment-conscious reader -- than for things like macrostructure and revision, the quarry of the craft-conscious writer.
Dorothy had a don't-tread-on-me personality that wouldn't allow for the magazine's more difficult, self-conscious writers".
