"Yes, 'Hail, Caesar!' is superb," writes Richard Brody of The New Yorker.
No one could be better prepared or respected for his superb writing, intimate knowledge of food and restaurants and deep commitment to our dining franchise.
"The 13 books that the judges have chosen not only feature superb writing from Brazil to Indonesia, from Finland to South Korea, from Angola to Italy.
The visually striking Batman: The Animated Series (1992 95) featured superb writing by Paul Dini and set the stage for later DC animated projects starring the Justice League, the Teen Titans, and the Milestone teen hero Static.
Three new operas in the past decade have been huge successes – Thomas Adès's The Tempest, Harrison Birtwistle's The Minotaur and George Benjamin's superb Written on Skin, currently packing in a young and engaged audience.
While Feig is quick to credit "Malcolm in the Middle" with superb writing and direction, it disheartens him to this day that its over-the-top style won out over his show's more down-to-earth aesthetic.
It's epic in scope, with a gripping plot that's full of twists and turns and dramatic surprises, but all built on a rock-solid foundation of deep historical research and superb writing.
In the 20th century the Northeast produced a particularly wide range of superb writing, including that of Gilberto Freyre on the subject of life under slavery, Graciliano Ramos's tragedies about the drought quadrilateral, João Guimaraês Rosa's tales of survival and violence in the interior, and Jorge Amado's lighthearted stories set in the cacao-growing zone of Bahia.
"Smothered," which includes interviews with the Smotherses, members of their superb writing staff (including Mason Williams and Rob Reiner) and two CBS executives who were closely involved with the "Comedy Hour," is even-handed: it makes it clear that one of the show's main problems was that it got less funny as Tom Smothers got more indignant.
This is, then, a book about America off camera and, better yet, pre-camera, harking back to a time when most baseball still seemed local and personal and most of the talk about it was home-cooked, around hot stoves and cracker barrels and in rickety press boxes that doubled unwittingly as superb writing schools for kids like Runyon and Heywood Broun and the great Ring Lardner.
