Word: literati
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...evenings out with friends in Boston, members of a literary set that includes Biographer Justin Kaplan and his wife, the novelist Anne Bernays. Throughout his career, Updike has chosen to live in snug corners, well away from the intrigues, gossip and power struggles that invariably ensue when the literati mingle...
...simple sentences, Noun, verb, object, there's little embellishment. The stories are meant to give pleasure on their own, and generally they do, but like a diet of Coke and cookies, too much simplicity leaves you craving for more substantial food for thought. But joining the ranks of the literati is not one of Luciano's ambitions. He was a talker on the field, so he writes his book like he'd speak a monologue. His aim is to entertain...
...like those of last year's winner, Polish Poet Czeslaw Milosz, are survivors of Europe's prewar culture. A poly lingual resident of England, who writes exclusively in a high, lapidary German, he is fashionably obscure. He was praised by Thomas Mann and a host of lesser literati as a son of Kafka and a father of Ionesco, and seven of his books are avail able in English translation from Continuum Publishing Co. in the U.S. But, while Canetti's landmark novel Auto-da-Fé, originally The Dazzlement, and nonfiction magnum opus Crowds and Power have...
...harpsichord, the other a young woman learning to draw, are vinegary, weird and hilarious all at once. It is as though the talents of a Longhi had been conjoined with those of Hogarth, and the result applied to Naples and its seedy corps of connoisseurs and minor literati...
Louis Dearborn L'Amour may be the most famous obscure author in America. He hardly ever makes the bestseller lists, nor is he yet a darling of the literati, like Mystery Writer John D. MacDonald. But today over 100 million copies of his frontier and western novels are in print. Moreover, he and his publishers have done it without full-page ads or talk-show hype. The latest of his 77 volumes, Lonely on the Mountain, is the 16th episode of the long and winding Sackett saga, tracing the fortunes of a frontier family from the 17th century...