Topic: Audrey Niffenegger

I'd be remiss to let Fiction Week on the Bleader pass without mentioning the upcoming Association of Writers & Writing Programs annual conference...
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Here is the full long list of nominees for the International IMPAC Dublic Literary Award...
Science Fiction, or as some call it, Speculative Fiction, is not just for acne-affected youths with social deficits. == Genre fiction== Ursula Le Guin is by far the best known and best-rated female writer of science-fiction (as well as fantasy) and she writes ...
Two weekends ago I went to see The Time Traveler's Wife. The movie concept was good (the book certainly sold a lot of copies) but it seems as if something was lost in the translation from written page to silver screen ...
Harvest Books, 2004.Audrey Niffenegger, in her romantic fantastical love story The Time Traveler?s Wife, describes a world in which one of her protagonists, Henry, is stricken with a genetic disease that causes him to travel through time. In fact, while ...
Audrey Niffenegger's bestseller debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife is a story of a man named Henry DeTamble with a rare genetic disorder known as Chronic Displacement Disorder that cause him to travel involuntary in time and able him to ...

Book Review 01

Her Fearful Symmetry, by Audrey Niffenegger, contains the best description I?ve ever read of what it?s like to be a ghost. Its setting is present-day London near Highgate Cemetery, a Victorian burial ground famous for the curious stories of some ...
Poet Bill Brown, a teacher for 20 years at Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet high school, can rightly be claimed as a Nashvillian, but his gentle vision is inspired by his boyhood in rural West Tennessee. Whether he's writing about the homeless folk ...

Literary Fiction Somewhat Defined

There are two kinds of fiction: With literary fiction, however, readers usually have to work a bit (often a lot) harder to understand the point. We figure it out by watching his actions, analyzing the political workings that continually creep up in ...
Short Stories The average income of a fiction author varies according to what and where he publishes his work. Best-selling authors such as Audrey Niffenegger receive millions for an advance, but The New York Times reports that $30,000 is typical.