Sentences with phrase «literary establishment»

This fresh and much - needed perspective was met with incomprehension by the male literary establishment.

Strong takes the audience through some early aspects of the writer's biography, like his romance with Eugene O'Neill's daughter Oona (Zoey Deutch) and his early rejections from The New Yorker, but Hoult plays Salinger as a typically frustrated young man, trying to make a creative breakthrough and angry at how closed - off New York's literary establishment seems.

The lack of attention from the more traditionally minded side of the SF literary establishment is a good thing as far as I'm concerned professionally.

In an odd way, Mohsin Hamid's fourth novel, Exit West, deserves the fulsome praise it has received from our literary establishment.

Jo Glanville, director of English PEN added: «This is a counter-productive measure that has shocked the public and the literary establishment, and we're very disappointed by ministers» response to the campaign.

Some are happily accepted by consumers of women's magazines, though derided by critics; others are often given a pretentious worthiness by the literary establishment which makes them unappealing to the ordinary reader.

He was spectacularly wrong, but not alone among the literary establishment in rejecting some of the world's best - known and most - loved books.

Fast forward to today, and it's the e-book's turn to be opposed by the literary establishment.

With it being so inexpensive and with so many more people able to afford to buy and read books, you would think the literary establishment of the day would have celebrated the invention of the paperback, yes?

self publishers are in the eyes of the literary establishment.

Weiner has a habit of criticizing the literary establishment's coverage of her work, which tends to be designated as «chick lit.»

These should give you a sobering clue of what we're losing amidst the many titles presently discriminated and suppressed into oblivion by the literary establishment.

Now a clash is coming to a head between the teeming hordes of do - it - yourself authors and those in the literary establishment who automatically disregard them.

There is so much literary snobbery in the «literary establishment», particularly in England, that I wouldn't know where to start telling you about it.

· Self - published books are not considered as «important» as published books by the literary establishment.

It would be snobbish to ignore such outlets, but do remember that they are not well thought of by the literary establishment.

The Orange jury chair, Daisy Goodwin, said: «Everybody who reads it seems very moved by it and even though it has been ignored by the literary establishment, readers absolutely love it.

He says he also knows that many authors — more than the literary establishment realizes — are making a good living through self - publishing.

The PEN / Faulkner Award for fiction was founded in 1980 by Mary Lee Settle, a National Book Award - winning writer who felt the literary establishment was unreceptive to Southern writers and that it valued «personality over achievement.»

Partially as a result of her strong pacifist politics and opposition to World War I, Lee became somewhat estranged from the literary establishment, although she continued to write prolifically until her death.