An assortment of historians, academics, writers and others gathered in the City University's Graduate Center, at Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, for a symposium held under the aegis of the Gotham Center for New York City History.
The notion of a modern political awakening in the Arab world was first whispered more than a decade ago in Syria, when an assortment of intellectuals, artists, writers and activists lit the spark of what would become known as the Damascus spring.
The longlist offers an assortment of cultures with writers working in Swedish, Czech, Polish, Japanese, Norwegian and French - this feast of foreign fiction offers readers the chance to escape in to other worlds and sample the best writing from around the globe.
Emmanuel Radnitsky, who would soon rename himself Man Ray, moved from the Village across the Hudson to found an artists' colony in a flimsy collection of shacks on the Palisades near Ridgefield, N.J., taking with him an assortment of Village and Ferrer writers, painters and poets.
This year's program offered an assortment of acclaimed poets and fiction writers.
The festival opens tomorrow with Fiction Night, an assortment of readings around downtown Manhattan with different pairs of writers, including Martin Amis and Norman Mailer, Salman Rushdie and Jhumpa Lahiri, Ann Beattie and Richard Ford, Peter Carey and Annie Proulx, Junot Díaz and Nathan Englander, and Walter Mosley and Marisa Silver.
Ms. Dylyn's assortment of accents according to the letter-writer's nationality was near-embarrassing.
And for many years, he held regular court at various watering holes in and around Montreal, bellying up to the bar with an assortment of accountants, lawyers and other non-writers.
But Tampa International gets a few votes beside my own -- "beautifully laid out, neat and clean, spotlessly maintained with a nice assortment of shops and restaurants," says one writer.
For our superhero-obsessed society, dutiful writers have delivered an assortment of truly awesome, very chilling supervillains along the lines of The Joker, Bane, and Dr. Octopus, to name a funny-looking few.
