CRITICISM Wesley Morris The Boston Globe The Pulitzer board praised Mr. Morris, 36, for his "smart, inventive film criticism" that included sharply written essays on "The Help," a novel and movie about African-American maids during the 1960s, and "Drive," the crime thriller starring Ryan Gosling.
She eventually emerged from the attic and went on to publish, in addition to inventive and highly regarded novels, several collections of essays and short stories.
Cook It Raw co-founder Alessandro Porcelli has edited a book (Phaidon, $49.95) of essays by the chefs, images of the inventive dishes they made from locally foraged or hunted ingredients, and remarks by the journalists fortunate enough to tag along to the remote corners of the world.
It takes the form of 22 inventive maps of San Francisco and its environs, each with an accompanying essay.
This warm, funny, inventive documentary is both a diary and a kind of extended essay on poverty, thrift and the curious place of scavenging in French history and culture.
The essay bemoans what Wallace saw as the near-impossibility of writing inventive, self-aware fiction in a television culture.
A quotation can be used as a hook, but be careful: this is a cliche way of opening your essay, and some readers may interpret it as lazy rather than inventive.
David Travis, curator of photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, takes an inventive approach to artistic genius in "At the Edge of the Light," a collection of essays culled from lectures over the past 20 years.
Carson's genre-averse approach to writing mixes poetry with essay, literary criticism, and other forms of prose, and her style is at once quirky, inventive, and erudite.
