And yet there's so much hatred from literary elites for people who read «trash» like romance or SF. (madgeniusclub.com)
And so now what they see is people like you, or Amanda Hocking, who are selling way more books than them, who are way more famous and way more popular, and they're not getting chosen by the New York literary elite; they, more importantly, actual people are buying their books because they actually enjoy them. (thecreativepenn.com)
The Philip in question is Philip Friedman (Jason Schwartzman), a novelist and member of the sort of Northeast liberal literary elite that usually inhabit Noah Baumbach movies. (alphaprimitive.com)