Sentences with phrase «literary luminaries»

Whitman, who self - published his first book, Leaves of Grass, in 1855, immediately started sending copies of his work to literary luminaries in search of praise.

Yes, it's the same Max Perkins who was editor to such literary luminaries as Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald.

But when Alden Mudge (who has been conducting interviews with literary luminaries for BookPage since long before my tenure here) writes that Last Night in Twisted River contains «some of the most entertaining and intellectually playful storytelling of Irving's career,» I sit up and take notice.

Also, David Lender will be up next Friday or Sat, and then a week after that, NY Times bestseller and literary luminary John Lescroart.

New York University's Grey Art Gallery will present Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg, which includes portraits of literary luminaries such as William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, and Jack Kerouac, on view from January 15 through April 6, 2013.

Toasting them and co-writer Zachary Tumin were a mix of media and literary luminaries including CBS's John Miller, Linda Fiorentino, Gael Greene, author Tony Schwartz, Hampton Sheet publisher Joan Jedell, Cathie Black, top attorney Gerry Lefcourt and author Laura Day.

And How to Sell A Gazillion eBooks In No Time (even if drunk, high or incarcerated) has 11, plus some wildly flattering reviews from literary luminaries like Lawrence Block, John Lescroart and David Lender.

In other time - based works, Green connects Viennese émigré architect Rudolf M. Schindler, literary luminaries Gertrude Stein, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Muriel Rukeyser, and polymaths and activists Albert Einstein and Paul Robeson.

Nigerian - born literary luminary Ben Okri, after his preliminary remarks, finally announced the winner as Helen Marten.

Boylan expands her focus outside her own family to look at a wide variety of American families in a sequence of interviews with literary luminaries and gender outlaws.

Meyer's debut, American Rust, drew an incredible amount of critical acclaim when it was published in 2009, garnering comparisons to literary luminaries like Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy and John Updike.

Here, Amado received many of the world's literary luminaries as his guests.

Wendell Berry, 75, is a literary luminary in Kentucky, where his poems, essays, and fiction explore his home state's disappearing agrarian heritage.

The «literary luminary» finds quotable lines to discuss with the group.

We lost a literary luminary on June 5; Ray Bradbury passed away at the age of 91.

Each work of literature featured here is a seminal work key to understanding and appreciating the written word.The featured works have been handpicked by a team of international critics and literary luminaries, including Derek Attridge (world expert on James Joyce), Cedric Watts (renowned authority on Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene), Laura Marcus (noted Virginia Woolf expert), and David Mariott (poet and expert on African - American literature), among some twenty others.

You'll have a full week to discuss the creative process with these literary luminaries during group conversations, lectures and readings.