Sentence examples for highbrow author from inspiring English sources

And as books migrate from paper, it means the death of the pickup line, "Oh, I see you're reading the latest (insert highbrow author's name here)." Michael Silverblatt, host of the weekly public radio show "Bookworm," uses the term "literary desire" to describe the attraction that comes with seeing a stranger reading your favorite book or author.

Tabloid papers – actually, all papers if we're honest – deal in templates and received ideas: in pretty princesses, snooty highbrow authors, smirking fiends and tragic tots.

There was less money in highbrow authors than there is now and Wylie wouldn't use his powers for the low-brow ones.

But if there is a conspiracy it's one that authors — highbrow authors, anyway — are sometimes complicit in, frequently adopting pseudonyms when they want to dabble in, say, crime writing.

His similarities to everyone from Eco to K Dick is mentioned – just in case you missed the fact that Mitchell is a fancy, highbrow, totally literary author.

Presiding over Pantheon for almost three decades beginning in the 1960's, he oversaw the publication of a roster of mostly highbrow, left-leaning authors including Studs Terkel, Noam Chomsky, R. D. Laing and Art Spiegelman.

Ms. Taymor had brought in Mr. Berger, a respected author of highbrow plays, as her writing partner in 2005 on the "Spider-Man" script.

In a cash-strapped publishing industry, which is culling more and more resources from their highbrow, midlist, low-selling authors – the Booker's traditional constituency – would it not be better to highlight the work of some of those authors, in order to save them from oblivion?

Perhaps the same may be said of Wallace.Another English writer whose popularity abroad is greater than it is in England is Lawrence Norfolk, author of a highbrow literary novel entitled "Lemprière's Dictionary".

Q: Although you're known best as the author of the highbrow murder mystery "The Name of the Rose," you're also a prolific political commentator whose essays have now been collected in a book, "Turning Back the Clock," in which you warn against the dangers of "media populism". How would you define that term?

Q: Although you're known best as the author of the highbrow murder mystery "The Name of the Rose," you're also a prolific political commentator whose essays have now been collected in a book, "Turning Back the Clock," in which you warn against the dangers of "media populism".