The lyrics can feel generic and so, too, can the book, by Claudia Shear and Tim Federle, both of whom have proved distinct writers with other projects.
I think of Fernando Pessoa, a writer who invented four versions of himself: four separate, distinct writers, thanks to which he was able to go beyond the confines of himself.
As a writer (distinct from being an author), I hoped that the largely unedited diary format might return my experience of the work itself to some of the joys of its origins travelogue, humor, experimentation, very amateur photography, and timely reporting.
As a writer (distinct from being an author), I hoped that the largely unedited diary format might return my experience of the work itself to some of the joys of its origins — travelogue, humor, experimentation, very amateur photography, and timely reporting.
They form a distinct type, these writers.
Wood's choices shows a distinct preference for foreign writers (Knut Hamsun, Italo Svevo, Bohumil Hrabal), and for writers who grapple with foreignness (VS Pritchett, VS Naipaul, Monica Ali), perhaps because this sharpens the sense of strangeness that comic sympathy should then help us overcome.
William Golding is the novelist Lively most admires, while the writer Jane Gardam is among her close friends, but she doesn't feel part of a distinct group of British writers, and believes such labels were less prevalent before Granta magazine published its first "best of young British writers" list in 1983.
There are things to read, long pieces, from writers with distinct voices: Julia Reed on politics, Jeffrey Steingarten on food, Sarah Mower on the Paris collections.
Writers as distinct from Patterson as Rebecca West have used this narrative approach to excellent effect, but here it feels painfully choreographed.
3. Rise of a class of professional writers, as distinct from moral reformers, schoolteachers, clerics, or versatile journalists all those who, for pedagogical, doctrinal, or pecuniary reasons turn themselves into writers for children.
Both trends are legitimate forms of artistic expression that have produced interesting novels, but their impact has been a distinct shortage of Chilean writers prepared to confront the complexity of the society in which they live (a notable exception being Pedro Lemebel, whose Tengo miedo torero I would hope to see translated into English soon).
