The new dramas and literary adaptations fall thick and fast at this time of year, like fallen leaves they pile up around my TV planner.
"What Would Napoleon Do? Historical, Fictional, and Counterfactual Characters". New Literary History (Fall 2011), 42: 315-336.
Literary genres fall in and out of favour and the ghost story has happily seen a resurgence in recent years, not least through the efforts of the Hammer imprint at Random House.
Buccaneering Roger Straus and bookish Robert Giroux, the odd couple who had made Farrar, Straus and Giroux America's most illustrious literary publisher, fall out over what Giroux says about Straus in his introduction to an anthology marking his 25 years at FSG.
(Though a literary curtain falls over the act itself).
'Every budding literary kid fell on Thomas Wolfe [Look Homeward, Angel] with a passion.
"Every so often, the city's twentysomething literary crowd falls in love with a foreign writer, who for a period becomes a sort of talisman, a sign that their aspirations go higher than the current domestic-realist model will allow".
ACE said that "historically, there has been an assumption that literary fiction fell within the sphere of commercial publishing, and therefore required little in the way of direct intervention from the Arts Council".
This is why, every so often, the city's twentysomething literary crowd falls in love with a foreign writer, who for a period becomes a sort of talisman, a sign that their aspirations go higher than the current domestic-realist model will allow.
And without a great plot, any thriller — even a beautifully written and very literary one — falls apart.
