In March 2004, I identified writer-director Tom McCarthy's debut The Station Agent as embodying all the formulaic aspects of what I called the independent cinema's 'inaction movie': suicide, despair, alienation, eccentric outsiders coming to decaying regional backwaters.
She said that there are about 750 identified writers in the new volumes, only about 30 of whom are men.
Here's Bill Kristol weirdly trying to make some sort of case against Hagel for once identifying writer Aaron David Miller, who is Jewish, as Jewish.
"Grammaromics": A sci-fi look at identifying writers by their sentence-construction patterns.
On Wednesday I wrote about the use of direct quotations and about identifying writers of letters to the editor.
(Heck, we didn't recognize him immediately, either. Always a problem, identifying writers. Look under RUSHDIE, SALMAN for the entry: "DOCTOROW, E.L., uncanny resemblance to").
At the New Yorker Festival a few weeks ago, we talked about critics' tendency to identify writers as either "comic" or "serious".
The awards honor fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays and are intended to identify writers, the foundation says, "who have yet to make their mark on the literary culture".
In 1956, the House Un-American Activities Committee (Huac) subpoenaed me - I was cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to identify writers I had met at one of the two communist writers' meetings I had attended many years before.
Academics David Kidd and Emanuele Castano, from the New School for Social Research in New York, put more than 1,000 participants through the "author recognition test", which measured exposure to fiction by asking respondents to identify writers they recognised from a list.
On Wednesday I wrote about the use of direct quotations and about identifying writers of letters to the editor, and will later get to a question about the use of brands — iPhone, for example — in Times articles.
