Sentence examples for literary hack from inspiring English sources

Was Bronson a genius misunderstood by a mercenary world or a narcissist whose financial fecklessness drove his daughter into domestic labor and literary hack work?

Stendhal, Rossini's contemporary biographer, didn't let his personal friendship with Berio restrain his comments about the "boring inanity" of the adaptation by this "literary hack".

For more than a decade, she had earned a good living with what she considered literary hack work for the San Francisco Bulletin, its rival, the Call, various magazines, and the Red Cross Publicity Bureau.

"I couldn't write a poem to save my life," he declared aged 35, when a "literary hack" of minor biographies and travel memoirs, struggling to support a wife and three children.

New Grub Street contrasts the career of Edwin Reardon, a gifted but impoverished author of proven literary merit, with that of Jasper Milvain, a materially successful reviewer and literary hack.

Wollstonecraft was successively a resentful daughter, a strong sister, a teaching drudge, a menial governess, a literary hack, a lovelorn nuisance, a doleful political radical, a rapturous sexual liberationist, a literary star, an enterprising businesswoman, a protective and frustrated mother.

So, EA's epic literary hack-n-slasher is out today, and already Dante's Inferno producer Jonathan Knight has his heart set on a conversion of Macbeth.

Grub Street, the world of literary hacks, or mediocre, needy writers who write for hire.

"There are no pensions for literary hacks," he wrote in Enemies.

Such a rise was possible because Goldsmith had one quality, soon noticed by booksellers and the public, that his fellow literary hacks did not possess the gift of a graceful, lively, and readable style.

In the open letter, he bemoaned the idea that their falling-out could be "gleefully interpreted as literary fratricide by hacks who couldn't care a hoot for the real subject".