"So it isn't like Jaipur," she said, referring to India's first and largest literary festival, just ended, where well-fed writers are flown in from London and New York and put up in reupholstered palaces.
Having spent the previous eight hours hauling food for a party of well-fed writers or some other group of beautiful, rude people, I felt that I had worked very hard for the hundred or so bucks in my pocket and deserved it more than my teenage muggers did.
The young are pollen-fed, as the writer suggested.
Minna's stories, many spoon-fed to a writer named Charles Washburn for "Come Into My Parlor," a book Ms. Abbott cites frequently, have a theatricality that wards off any candor.
After beef samples sent to food writers received enthusiastic reviews, Mr. Frost created a monthly Internet club, at PrescottFrost.com, that offers organic, grass-fed ground beef and hot dogs, with steaks as a bonus for subscribers.
All this fed into his work as a writer.
All this fed into his work as a writer: his memories of wartime London led to a particularly vivid 1989 screen adaptation of Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day.
They've been spoon-fed, spoon-fed, spoon-fed.
Gavin the hacker shouted his demands to the Feds over a frankly passé soundtrack of techno beats before his story too stalled, as though the writers had lost interest in it.
Now when her writers visit her summer home in northern Vermont to test recipes, they can cook with Bryn Teg farm's grass-fed beef.
Repression fed extremism.
