Sentence examples for hold literary from inspiring English sources

I sincerely hope that more small independent bookshops, libraries and literary societies follow LSE's lead and start to hold literary speed-dating events.

Ostensibly, their purpose is to hold literary events to discuss crime fiction and give fans more opportunities to connect to their work.

Of his children, Fante held literary aspirations for his son Daniel.

But when Bennett's Queen starts holding literary soirees, it's she who is awestruck and lost for words.

When he died, Jane was left with little but her own wiles, and so she moved from Dublin to London, where she held literary soirees in Chelsea.

While Kim Il-sung's son and successor, Kim Jong-il, was famously a cinephile — he went as far as kidnapping his favorite South Korean actress and director — and his grandson, Kim Jong-un, is known to have a taste for modern pop music, North Korea's first dictator held literary fiction in particularly high regard.

The Bulgari connection is certainly the most highly visible episode yet in an ongoing courtship pairing authors and publishers desperate for marketing support with companies eager to capitalize on the power of a reader's immersion in a book, from organizing children's books around the names of well-known candy or cereals to holding literary readings in fancy boutiques.

She held literary salons at her home in this way she introduced new writers to publishers.

Beginning as early as 1865 in San Francisco, Coolbrith held literary meetings at her home, hosting readings of poetry, and topical discussions, in the tradition of European salons.

Author Gertrude Atherton and Coolbrith's Bohemian Club friends helped set her up again in a new house, and she resumed writing and holding literary salons.

Our collective book may not hold much literary water (3 A.M. musings rarely do) but it took time and effort.