Poetry will also be honoured at the festival, with a back-to-back reading of Sylvia Plath's Ariel, her last collection of poems left at her death, and a one-on-one poetry reading with Ryan Van Winkle in A Room for London, the boat installed above the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Just this season I happened to read, back to back to back, new and oddly similar masterpieces.
In fact, Hribal's ability to give his grieving narrators such eerily accurate voices becomes something of a liability when the works are read back to back.
Read back to back to back, these novellas form a triptych — detailed works in their own right, they offer more than the sum of their parts when taken together.
If I keep coming back to Maycomb, Ala., in the 1930s, it's because I believe these two books about Clanton will now be read back to back — and, standing together, at last dispel the long shadow of Harper Lee (not a lawyer).
I just read back to back NEW stories that @mirandalambert and I are having a baby, divorcing, cheating and feuding with @cher.
Two of my best experiences were devouring all of the Kobo Abe and Thomas Bernhard novels that I hadn't yet read, back to back, in short periods, which kind of cooked something about each of those minds into me that hadn't been there before.
When he was sent the script for "The Road," he recalled recently, he was so exhausted from Oscar fuss — and from making two other films, "Good" and "Appaloosa," virtually back to back — that he almost didn't read it.
I read this back to back with Ann Bannon's lesbian classic and quickly realized that the two books shared the similar emotional underpinnings of the love that dare not speak its name: lesbianism.
'The main thing I felt, reading 70 books back to back, is that I wanted literature to be a bigger canvas, to open the scope.
This is a movie so unbelievably girly, whirly and twirly that, on leaving the cinema, I felt like reading three Andy McNabs back to back, just to get my testosterone back up to metrosexual level.
