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When you’re a writer who lives in the West, and you have a literary agent in Manhattan, it’s easy for certain things to get lost in translation: a three-hour time difference sometimes means that her phone call wakes me at 5:00 a.m., while my interpretation of a 5:00 p.m. by-closing-time deadline is set to my clock, not hers. The last time my agent came to Idaho, I beseeched her to be careful while scaling the...
When you’re a writer who lives in the West, and you have a literary agent in Manhattan, it’s easy for certain things to get lost in translation: a three-hour time difference sometimes means that her phone call wakes me at 5:00 a.m., while my interpretation of a 5:00 p.m. by-closing-time deadline is set to my clock, not hers. The last time my agent came to Idaho, I beseeched her to be careful while scaling the...
- 4/22/2012
- by Kim Barnes
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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Author Elmore Leonard will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from Pen USA at the 19th annual Literary Awards Festival to be held Dec. 2 at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Other award winners include "Milk" screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and George Mastras for the "Crazy Handful of Nothin'" episode of "Breaking Bad."
Pen USA is the West Coast center for the international writers' organization Pen.
Leonard has published 43 novels and numerous short stories. His work has been adapted for such films as "Get Shorty," "Out of Sight" and "Jackie Brown." He is currently finishing his next book, "Djibouti," to be published next year by HarperCollins/William Morrow.
Additionally, literary prizes, announced Tuesday by Pen USA executive director Adam Somers, will be handed out in ten genres.
This year's winners are: Fiction, Kim Barnes, "A Country Called Home"; creative nonfiction, Steve Lopez, "The Soloist"; research nonfiction, Leslie T. Chang, "Factory Girls"; poetry, Seido Ray Ronci,...
Other award winners include "Milk" screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and George Mastras for the "Crazy Handful of Nothin'" episode of "Breaking Bad."
Pen USA is the West Coast center for the international writers' organization Pen.
Leonard has published 43 novels and numerous short stories. His work has been adapted for such films as "Get Shorty," "Out of Sight" and "Jackie Brown." He is currently finishing his next book, "Djibouti," to be published next year by HarperCollins/William Morrow.
Additionally, literary prizes, announced Tuesday by Pen USA executive director Adam Somers, will be handed out in ten genres.
This year's winners are: Fiction, Kim Barnes, "A Country Called Home"; creative nonfiction, Steve Lopez, "The Soloist"; research nonfiction, Leslie T. Chang, "Factory Girls"; poetry, Seido Ray Ronci,...
- 9/30/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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