The CCF built editorial strategies for each of these literary outposts, allowing them to control the conversation in countries where readers might otherwise resist the American perspective.
The CIA developed several guises to throw money at young, burgeoning writers, creating a cultural propaganda strategy with literary outposts around the world, from Lebanon to Uganda, India to Latin America.
Sweden has some 3,000 runic monuments; Norway and Denmark, perhaps 400 each; while Iceland has remarkably few, apparently in inverse proportion to the literary flowering in that colonial outpost.
I pray this will not be the case with Politics & Prose, an outpost of intellectual and literary vitality that the nation's capital can ill afford to lose.
Marks Place in 1977 by Contant, Terry McCoy, and three other men, the store in its heyday was a literary headquarters for punks, and an outpost for St . Marks Poetry Project poets.
Die brandwag ("The Outpost"), a magazine, had a literary section from 1910.
The bookstore has a full schedule of author readings, lectures and other literary events — and there's a small outpost of the local, fair and direct trade coffee shop Café Cultor.
Over the years, the store has drawn such literary figures as J. D. Salinger, Saul Bellow and Edward Gorey to its anomalous location, an outpost in the heart of the thriving diamond district.
The two, he argues, are not unalike: A literary café was a cesspool, an insane asylum, but also an oasis of sanity and an outpost of liberty.
