Ms. Case has an endearingly casual stage presence: she's a honky-tonk heroine by temperament, even if her lyrics reveal literary designs.
These are not literary constructions, designed for the archives.
Chabon, the writer of books including The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policemen's Union, said: "Great literature respects no borders or boundaries, and it's a thrill to be part of the first literary prize designed to honour that crucial disrespect".
(For a good primer on the literary critic and design historian, I recommend the incredible 1974 Visconti film "Conversation Piece" — the Burt Lancaster character is based on Praz).
Highly designed "literary" work is given preference over science fiction, with some comics designated "worthy" while others are trashed as disposable pop.
Or as John Updike recently put it, literary biographies seem designed "to reduce celebrities to a set of antics and ailments to which we can feel superior".
But in keeping with Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, written as part of a short story in 1942, many literary robots are designed to avoid harming humans; consider the lovable odd couple R2-D2 and C-3PO in George Lucas's "Star Wars" movies.
This paper intends to present the literary translation workshop designed according to the guiding principles of the "social constructivist" approach, which are "collaborative learning", "scaffolding" and "professional self-concept".
One, that Truman's persona and literary career were designed to provoke, and two, that Perry Smith became an alter ego for Capote, precluding the need for a Capote character in this book.
At least it may be among a swath of the New York art, design and literary worlds.
