The literary world is chock-full of angst-ridden memoirs about unhappy marriages and the inevitable spiritual awakening.
Mr Walser says his book is merely a satire about the abuse of power in the literary world.
Ian McEwan and Peter Carey head the shortlist for the Booker prize, the literary world's most prestigious award.
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The judges remarked that Cliff is "a talent to watch and set to take the literary world by storm".
Ford is a writer of personal fascination to many in the literary world.
The literary world is small and somewhat inbred with sharp teeth and the capacity to lash out when it feels threatened.
The festival has been able to attract some big names in the literary world to headline speaker sessions, lead panels, and judge the writing competitions.
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Running for its fourth year, the winner of Not The Booker will receive one of the most highly sought-after prizes in the literary world: a Guardian mug.
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Calling Amazon "the Darth Vader of the literary world, " Turow said in an op-ed piece for Bloomberg last month that an Apple lawsuit would tilt the field too far in Amazon's favor.
Martin Amis is one of the literary world's most celebrated and controversial authors ("Money: A Suicide Note, " "London Fields" and his latest, "The Pregnant Widow"), with contentious views on everything from religion to beauty and politics.
His case against Morini was the talk of the Argentine literary world for a week or so.
Sales of the tome have taken the French literary world by surprise.
Professor Robert Englund of the University of California believes that the culture that flowered in this region around the delta that flows from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers formed the basis for what is almost certainly the world's oldest literary culture.
Two themes that dominated these discussions were the state of the contemporary literary community and the effect of the digital world on writing and its industries.
Meanwhile she makes riches out of everything to hand: from the life of the village, its craftsmen and labourers, to the poor weavers of nearby Carlisle, and so on out to the world of books and literary and philosophical societies, all set against the Cumbrian landscape with its Celtic and Roman remains and discoveries of an even stranger fossilised past.
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When we hear the door of the very last bookstore slam shut with the same sort of "sickening smack" that announced the chopping of the last Truffula tree, will the Once-lers of the digital world regret their destruction of the old literary habitat?
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Mayor of Dunedin Dave Cull said that the announcement puts Dunedin on the world map as a first-class literary city.
Lord of the Rings is currently packing them in and last week Philip Pullman author of a trilogy of children's books was awarded one of the world's top literary prizes the Whitbread Book of the Year, the first time that a book aimed at children has carried off this particular award, The Amber Spy Glass, part three of the trilogy.
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Those things are at their mildest in Matt Lane, the librarian and archivist of the title: benign high-priest of literary hush, untouched by history (too late for the first world war and a non-combatant in the second), unproblematically Christian.
Guests can hit the on-site Harrods for a shopping spree and sip cocktails in the David Collins-designed Bassoon Bar before retiring to one of the seven plush suites with literary, drama or world-exploration themes.
Numerous Spanish celebrities and well known public figures are taking part in a marathon 48-hour reading session of one of the Spanish-speaking world's most famous literary works, Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote.
Norwich UNESCO City of Literature welcomed writers and literary professionals from over 25 countries and every continent in the world to speak at its International Literature Showcase last month (April).
Instead, we can look to a scandal that recently enveloped a leading British literary prize, and subsequently reached newspapers and media reports around the world.
In 2004 Edinburgh was designated the world's first UNESCO City of Literature, celebrating Edinburgh's status as a literary capital.
The book is a literary treasure of childhood, an adventure story with dwarves, wizards and elves in a world beyond conventional imagination.
With this literary and visual offering, I describe a world that is both like -- and at the same time very much unlike -- our own.
The former made him one of the highest-earning writers in the world in the mid-twentieth century, and barred him from achieving the top-rung literary status that he longed for.
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