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Musical Fiction
Musical fiction is a genre of fiction in which music is paramount: both as subject matter, and through the rhythm and flow of the prose; that is, music is manifested through the language itself. Notable authors who have written novels of musical fiction include Don DeLillo (''Great Jones Street''), Tom Perotta (''The Wishbones''), Lewis Shiner (''Glimpses''), Roddy Doyle (''The Commitments''), Robert Dunn (''Pink Cadillac''), Nick Hornby (''High Fidelity''), Ibi Kaslik (''The Angel Riots''), Scott Spencer (''The Rich Man's Table''), Brian Paone (''Yours Truly, 2095''), and Randy Blazak (''The Mission of the Sacred Heart''). Description In her anthology The Best of Rock Fiction, editor June Skinner Sawyers writes, “Rock fiction has not received the proper respect it deserves, which is unfortunate given the caliber of writers who have captured its fleeting essence on the written page.” In the same anthology, Rolling Stone writer Anthony DeCurtis talks about “the edgy relati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don DeLillo
Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, performance art, the Cold War, mathematics, the advent of the digital age, politics, economics, and global terrorism. DeLillo was already a well-regarded cult writer in 1985, when the publication of ''White Noise'' brought him widespread recognition and won him the National Book Award for fiction. ''White Noise'' was followed in 1988 by ''Libra'', a bestseller. DeLillo has twice been a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist (for ''Mao II'' in 1992 and for ''Underworld'' in 1998), won the PEN/Faulkner Award for ''Mao II'' in 1992 (receiving another PEN/Faulkner Award nomination for ''The Angel Esmeralda'' in 2012), won the 1999 Jerusalem Prize, was granted the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2010, and won the Library ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Perotta
Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name) Characters * Tom Anderson, a character in '' Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Tom Beck, a character in the 1998 American science-fiction disaster movie '' Deep Impact'' * Tom Buchanan, the main antagonist from the 1925 novel ''The Great Gatsby'' * Tom Cat, a character from the ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons * Tom Lucitor, a character from the American animated series '' Star vs. the Forces of Evil'' * Tom Natsworthy, from the science fantasy novel '' Mortal Engines'' * Tom Nook, a character in ''Animal Crossing'' video game series * Tom Servo, a robot character from the ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' television series * Tom Sloane, a non-adult character from the animated sitcom ''Daria'' * Talking Tom, the protagonist from the ''Talking Tom & Friends'' franchise * Tom, a character from the '' Deltora Quest'' books by Emily Rodda * Tom, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Shiner
Lewis Shiner (born December 30, 1950 in Eugene, Oregon) is an American writer. Shiner began his career as a science fiction writer, and then identified with cyberpunk. He later wrote more mainstream novels, albeit often with magical realism and fantasy elements. He was formerly a resident of Texas (and a member of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop), and now lives in North Carolina. Life and career Shiner graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1973. Several of his novels have rock music as a theme or main focus, especially the musicians of the late 1960s; for example, Shiner's 1993 novel ''Glimpses'' considers the great never-recorded albums of The Doors, Brian Wilson, The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix. ''Say Goodbye: The Laurie Moss Story'' (1999) focuses on a fictional up-and-coming female musician and her subsequent fall back down. ''Slam'' (1990) is immersed in skate punk and anarchist culture. Perhaps because novels with music as a major theme are not generally consider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle (born 8 May 1958) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with '' The Commitments'' in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize in 1993 for his novel '' Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha''. Personal life Doyle was born in Dublin and grew up in Kilbarrack, in a middle-class family. His mother, Ita Bolger Doyle, was a first cousin of the short story writer Maeve Brennan. Doyle graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from University College Dublin. He spent several years as an English and geography teacher before becoming a full-time writer in 1993. His personal notes and work books reside at the National Library of Ireland. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Dunn (novelist)
Robert Dunn (born 1950) is the author of seven musical novels, '' Pink Cadillac'' (2001), '' Cutting Time'' (2003), '' Soul Cavalcade'' (2005), '' Meet the Annas'' (2007), '' Look at Flower'' (2011), '' Stations of the Cross: A Musical Novel of Obsession'' (2013), and ''Savage Joy'' (2017). The novels are published under Dunn's own independent publishing company, Coral Press, located in New York City. His novel ''The Sting Rays'' is available online at Electron Press. Dunn has won an O. Henry Prize for his short story "Hopeless Acts Performed Properly, With Grace." He has also written for ''The New Yorker'', ''The Atlantic'', ''The New York Times Book Review'', ''The Sewanee Review'', ''Omni Magazine'', the ''Mississippi Review'', and ''Mother Jones''. He was born in Santa Monica, Calif., and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1976 to '82, he was on the editorial staff of ''The New Yorker'' magazine. In 1982, he spent a residency at the artists' co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Hornby
Nicholas Peter John Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English writer and lyricist. He is best known for his memoir ''Fever Pitch'' and novels '' High Fidelity'' and '' About a Boy'', all of which were adapted into feature films. Hornby's work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists. His books have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide as of 2018. In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Hornby was named the 29th most influential person in British culture. He has received two Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nominations for ''An Education'' (2009), and ''Brooklyn'' (2015). Early life and education Hornby was born in Redhill, Surrey, the son of Sir Derek Hornby, the chairman of London and Continental Railways, and Margaret Audrey Withers. He was brought up in Maidenhead, and educated at Maidenhead Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read English. His parents divorced when he was eleven. Prior to his car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibi Kaslik
Ibolya "Ibi" Kaslik (born August 20, 1973) is a Canadian novelist, freelance journalist, and professor of creative writing at the University of Toronto. Early life Born in Toronto, Ontario, Kaslik attended high school at Etobicoke School of the Arts. She went on to major in creative writing at Concordia University and graduated with a Masters of Arts in Creative Writing and English Literature. Career Kaslik's short stories and articles have appeared in literary magazines such as ''Matrix'' and '' Geist''. Her debut novel, '' Skinny'', was published by HarperCollins in May 2004. It was shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 2004, the CLA Best Young Adult Book in 2005 and the Borders Original Voice Award in 2006. ''Skinny'' also appeared on the ''New York Times'' best sellers list for two consecutive weeks in 2008. In 2007/08, Kaslik served as the 22nd writer-in-residence at the Regina Public Library in Regina, Saskatchewan. Her second novel, '' The Angel Riot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Spencer (author)
Scott Spencer (born September 1, 1945) is an American author who has written fourteen novels. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1993 movie '' Father Hood''. Two of Spencer's novels, ''Endless Love'' and '' Waking the Dead,'' have been adapted into films. ''Endless Love'' was first adapted into a motion picture by Franco Zeffirelli in 1981, and a second adaptation by Shana Feste was released in 2014. '' Waking the Dead'' was produced by Jodie Foster and directed by Keith Gordon in 2000. The novels ''Endless Love'' and ''A Ship Made of Paper'' have both been nominated for the National Book Award, with ''Endless Love'' selling over 2 million copies. Spencer has heavily panned both film adaptations of ''Endless Love''. In a contribution to ''The New York Times Book Review'' in 1980, Spencer said: "The general direction of the serious, literary novel may now be heading toward character and story, as novelists, in order to survive, take back from pulp fiction and the movies the ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Mellen Press
The Edwin Mellen Press or Mellen Press is an international Independent business, independent company and Academic publisher, academic publishing house with editorial offices in Lewiston (town), New York, Lewiston, New York, and Lampeter, Lampeter, Wales. It was founded, in 1972, by the religious studies scholar Professor Herbert Richardson (publisher), Herbert W. Richardson. The press is a "non-subsidy academic publisher of books in the humanities and social sciences" releasing "Monographs, Textual criticism, critical editions, collections, translations, revisionist studies, constructive essays, bibliographies, dictionaries, reference guides and Thesis, dissertations". Most Mellen books are in English but many are also in a variety of other languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Russian. History When it was founded in 1972, the press's initial purpose was to publish specialized scholarship produced in Herbert Richardson (publisher), Richardson's department at the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewiston, New York
Lewiston is a town in Niagara County, New York, United States. The population was 15,944 at the 2020 census. The town and its contained village are named after Morgan Lewis, a governor of New York. The Town of Lewiston is on the western border of the county. The Village of Lewiston is within the town. History The Town of Lewiston was formed in 1818 from the town of Cambria. Lewiston was the first European settlement in Western New York. A French explorer by the name of Etienne Brûlée arrived in 1615. Government The Town Supervisor is Steve Broderick and the Chief of Police is Frank Previte. The Town Supervisor is considered the "Chief Fiscal Officer" for the Town. In this capacity, the officeholder oversees all finances as well as presiding at Town Board meetings, representing the Town for the Niagara County Water District, Niagara County Sewer District, Niagara Greenway Commission and Niagara Power Coalition. The Supervisor also serves as an ex-officio board me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coral Press
Coral Press is a small, New York City-based independent publisher of musical fiction. Founded in 2001 by Robert Dunn, it includes author clientele and deals solely in books of musical fiction. Coral Press has been written up in Publishers Weekly as the preeminent publisher of musical fiction, and it has made efforts to create a new musical genre called, "mus-fi." The books are distributed by Thomson Shore Distribution. Novels include: *''Pink Cadillac'' (2001) by Robert Dunn *''Cutting Time'' (2003) by Robert Dunn *''Lone Star Ice and Fire'' (2005) by L.E. Brady *''Soul Cavalcade'' (2006) by Robert Dunn *'' Meet the Annas'' (2007) by Robert Dunn *''Getting in Tune'' (2008) by Roger L. Trott *''Look At Flower'' (2011) by Robert Dunn *''Stations of the Cross'' (2013) by Robert Dunn *''Roadie'' (2016) by Howard Massey *''Savage Joy'' (2017) by Robert Dunn In 2011, Coral Press established Coral Press Arts, to publish photo-books. The first book was Robert Dunn's ''OWS,'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genre Fiction
Genre fiction, also known as popular fiction, is a term used in the book-trade for fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre, in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre. A number of major literary figures have written genre fiction. John Banville publishes crime novels as Benjamin Black, and both Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood have written science fiction. Georges Simenon, the creator of the Maigret detective novels, has been described by André Gide as "the most novelistic of novelists in French literature". The main genres are crime, fantasy, romance, science fiction and horror—as well as perhaps Western, inspirational and historical fiction. The opposite of genre fiction is mainstream fiction. Slipstream genre is sometimes located in between the genre and non-genre fictions. Genre and the marketing of fiction In the publishing industry the term "category fiction" is often used as a synonym fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
