Gray crisply tracks the lives of the six undergrads up and down (mostly down) the greased pole of literary life.
The Algonquin opened in 1902 and was a centre of New York City literary and theatrical life in its heyday.
In this novel, short-listed for the Man Booker prize, the author insinuates himself under the skin of Henry James, covering not only the known episodes in the literary lion's life, but also imagining the darker corners.
According to Bowker's Books in Print database, which tracks print and e-books published and distributed in the United States, 164 such works have been written so far - they either directly address the event or use it as a peg to hang greater literary concerns about love, life and loss.
"Pendennis" follows "Pen" through his West Country upbringing to his debt-bilking sojourn at "Oxbridge University" (Thackeray himself spent five unproductive terms at Cambridge), his life as a literary man about town in the London of the early 1840s, his writing of a best-selling novel called "Walter Lorraine, " and his eventual marriage to his milksop cousin Laura.
That's where the literary and cultural icon took his own life with a shotgun 44 years ago.
Bethan Marshall, a senior lecturer in English education at King's College London told the magazine the literary merit of picture books was often underestimated, comparing The Very Hungry Caterpillar favourably with another literary hit, Yann Martel's Life of Pi.
Mr Browner nicely retells, for instance, the cautionary tale of Lady Ottoline Morrell, a well-meaning but slightly dim toff who thought she had found her role in life as hostess to London's literary smart set.
After all, what better way to glimpse inside the strange word of Edwardian literary society than through the bizarre, and often spooky, life of J.
At literary parties, tiddly in a trice, she could be the life and soul, mistaking the queen for Vera Lynn loudly and to her face, or inviting men to join her under the piano.
ECONOMIST: Dame Beryl Bainbridge, novelist, died on July 2nd, aged 77
Ms Nafisi's earlier memoir did an excellent job of exploring the absurdities of life under the ayatollahs, using the vehicle of a literary discussion group that dissected the works of writers such as Vladimir Nabokov and Henry James.
The story I wish to share with you is a blatantly personal one beginning with a kind of literary relationship between two very different women, both of whom greatly influenced my life.
The movie opens with a Fellini-esque dream sequence, highlighted by digital images of famous literary figures such Jorge Luis Borges and Marguerite Yourcenaur, as well as the real-life Tom Waits.
Fermor led an active social life, and the house in Mani, however remote, was a place that attracted many friends, literary luminaries and even admiring strangers over the years.
Kathy's first literary success came during her teens with the 1979 novel Puberty Blues (co-written with Gabrielle Carey) about life, relationships and surf culture in Sydney - it became a film in 1981.
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