Sentences with phrase «literary scene»

Each year we put together collections of books that reflect the current topics in the German literary scene.

Her clever and funny take on domestic life and Nigerian society is a welcome addition to her country's burgeoning literary scene.

To serve as the national resource center for information about the American Jewish literary scene.

With the growing literary scene in Queens, we expect an especially rich group of talented applicants this year.»

Rather, it's an incisively observed portrait of the deterioration of a short - term relationship, and secondarily of the status - obsessed literary scene of Brooklyn.

Europe About Blog Independent European network of literary activists for mutual and interactive exchange and cooperation among the contemporary literary scenes across Europe.

Alan Deutschman — husband to Susan Rebecca White — calls Atlanta «the most vibrant new literary scene outside of Brooklyn» and praises the authors» fearless writing «about the region's troubled legacies of race, class, gender, and sexuality.»

Opening a little wider, «Genius» (Roadside Attractions), a biopic about the 1920s New York literary scene, showed modest results in its initial dates.

While eBooks surged ahead of sales of hardcover books, independent publishers were heralded with widespread acclaim and acceptance as part of a vibrant literary scene.

The mainstream literary scene, like Hollywood, is constellated by twenty - five or so big - name authors with literary - auction - level fame (and among actors, by twenty - five or...

Derek has become well known across the UK literary scene and beyond for his work on the Mostly Lit podcast and will play a key role in marketing campaigns across the full Penguin Random House audiobook list as part of the UK's only in - house audiobook marketing unit.

And they're now turning Atlanta into the most vibrant new literary scene outside of Brooklyn.

«It's a novel about some guy who moves to New York to break into the high - brow literary scene and score with lots of chicks yada yada yadaï ¿ 1/2»

The mutual regard between writers and artists at de Nagy made avant - garde history, fusing postwar American Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism into Pop, while arcing toward the 1970s downtown literary scene around the Poetry Project

Sure, it could've worked quite easily [Hey, it worked easily enough for Tom Reynolds, the London ambulance driver who got a book deal based on his blog writings], but doing that would probably have been seen as a bit gauche by the other groovy cats in the Parisian literary scene.

It does not appear, for example, that writers are submitting their sensitive domestic novels or dissections of the Brooklyn literary scene.

Whereas the mid-twentieth century literary scene was packed with Catholics (Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Walker Percy, Jack Kerouac, Donald Westlake, Allen Tate, Robert Fitzgerald, Claude McKay, Claire Boothe Luce, Robert Giroux, Hugh Kenner), Gioia noted, today's «aggressively secular literary culture» allows for only a few of them (Alice McDermott, Tobias Wolff, Richard Rodriguez).

As a youngster he broke into London's literary scene seemingly out of nowhere, filled with wit, jokes and paradoxes.

We also want to see RCW create positive attention around some of our newer authors from the Danish literary scene, some of the ones who aren't yet as well known internationally.

On his writers tour of Portland, Maine, award - winning author Ron Currie Jr. sets out to «dispel the persistent notion that Maine is intellectually DOA» by showcasing the city's thriving literary scene.

Among the many who moved to the City of Light were F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda, and Ernest Hemingway whose mentor, Gertrude Stein, was a permanent fixture on the expat literary scene.

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The house is run by, John Oakes and Colin Robinson, two veterans of New York's independent literary scene.

Edited by David Hale Smith, the list of contributing authors read like a «who's who» of the Dallas literary scene.

«The local literary scene is very vibrant and extends far beyond the country's borders.

The mainstream literary scene, like Hollywood, is constellated by twenty - five or so big - name authors with literary - auction - level fame (and among actors, by twenty - five or so who possess mega-watt star status).

Self - published authors who get picked up by traditional publishers are becoming a regular feature of the UK literary scene.

«It's a novel about some guy who moves to New York to break into the high - brow literary scene and score with lots of chicks yada yada yada?»

With her hilarious East Village Eye column, «Ask Dr. Mueller,» and her articles on art and the Downtown scene for Details, she was a fixture on the Downtown literary scene.

The last time I dined with her in Paris, Chantal was telling me her tale of woe, after she had spent many long months schlepping around town, trying to find a publisher, which in Paris means trying to ingratiate herself with the Parisian literary scene.

Southern California artists John Baldessari (’58 MFA), Robert Irwin (’50 BFA), and Kelly Akashi (’06 BFA) are included in the exhibition, which will feature 34 artists and 84 authors from the region's art and literary scene of the last 50 years.

Surely New York and its literary scene has changed since the testosterone - swaggering 1950s and 1960s, but fame's swirly eyes haven't lost their lure.

I moved to New York City to be close to the literary scene....

Since the novel first appeared on the literary scene in 2003, it has become an international best - seller.

Jillian Lauren: I love coming to San Francisco because the literary scene is very strong here.

Sebastian Junger burst onto the literary scene in 1997 with «The Perfect Storm,» his riveting nonfiction account of the loss of a fishing vessel and its crew from Gloucester, Mass., which was adapted for a 2000 film starring George Clooney and Mark...

The drama looks at the juxtaposition of several segments of life and society in 1980s New York: the rise of the luxury Trump - era universe, the downtown social and literary scene and the ball culture world.

Set in 1980s New York, Pose looks at the concurrent rise of Trump - era downtown social and literary scene and ball culture worlds.

Set in 1986, the series takes on the rise of Donald Trump - style superwealth, the denizens of downtown (including the literary scene) and the underground LGBT subculture known as ball culture.

Co-created by Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Steven Canals, Pose explores the juxtaposition of several segments of life and society in 1987 New York: the ball culture world, the rise of the luxury Trump - era universe and the downtown social and literary scene.

Pose ** (FX) Evan Peters, Kate Mara, and James Van Der Beek star in Ryan Murphy's next big project, a game - changing,»80s - themed dance musical, about «the juxtaposition of several segments of life and society in 1980s New York: the rise of the luxury Trump - era universe, the downtown social and literary scene and the ball culture world.»