By Rebecca Mead Millard Kaufman, a début novelist whose book "Bowl of Cherries" comes out this month, has been described by his publisher, McSweeney's, as quite possibly "the best extant epic-comedic writer of his generation".
Millard Kaufman, a début novelist whose book "Bowl of Cherries" comes out this month, has been described by his publisher, McSweeney's, as quite possibly "the best extant epic-comedic writer of his generation".
This is high praise, and would be higher still were it not for the fact that there are few, if any, epic-comedic writers extant from Kaufman's generation.
To judge from the number of extant manuscripts, these two writers were enormously popular.
His comedy, Clouds, was produced in 423 when the other two writers of our extant sources, Xenophon and Plato, were infants.
Other probable Kannada writers, whose works are not extant now but titles of which are known from independent references are Syamakundacharya (650), who is said to have authored the Prabhrita, and Srivaradhadeva (also called Tumubuluracharya, 650 or earlier), the possible author of the Chudamani ("Crest Jewel"), a lengthy commentary on logic.
CBS has had a string of these mild sci-fi shows from huge writers, like Under the Dome and Extant.
The writer admits that he tacked on these extant paragraphs to the chats he was writing up.
The science-fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin, for instance, announced that literature "is the extant body of written art.
Historically, films about fictional writers fare better, because the drama is not restricted by any extant facts.
