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Recent Examples on the Web
An audience hungry for literary storytelling overlapped with the audience for cinematic storytelling, and English was the lucky lingua franca of these two mass art forms.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
But Chabon’s literary gifts, in at least one sense, inadvertently transcend his callous attitude.
—Jack Butler, National Review, 4 Nov. 2023
Anthony Vidler, an architectural historian who helped reshape perspectives on architecture by incorporating psychoanalysis and literary theory — and served as dean of the architecture schools at Cornell and Cooper Union — is dead at 82.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2023
Helen Marcus, a late-blooming photographer whose evocative black-and-white portraits of literary figures and film and television personalities graced book jackets and magazine covers for decades, died on Oct. 1 at her home in Manhattan.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
Nothing in a professional writer’s life more resembles the life of a traveling salesman than the literary book tour.
—Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 2 Nov. 2023
As a literary exercise, the conversation with yourself in this book is really interesting.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
Universal Pictures had fiercely chased rights to the hot literary property six years ago, and was outbid by Paramount, which developed the project with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 1 Nov. 2023
Her literary encounters with strangers don’t all go poorly.
—Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023
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