The third time I retrieved my copy from my daughter's bedroom — a tween lair crammed with bobblehead turtles, Tootsie Roll-scented lip balms and shells from every beach she's ever visited — I realized this book was the first of my literary possessions she's ever truly coveted.
A lifelong bachelor, known by his friends as a loveable curmudgeon, outspoken to a fault, Pforzheimer was never happier than when he was at home, surrounded by his literary possessions, with a bottle of whisky and a fellow 'old boy' for company, musing about Yale, his beloved alma mater, his days at the CIA or the latest spy book.
Mr. LaBute was convinced that adapting "Possession" was a literary mystery he could solve.
Christabel LaMotte, whose unsuspected love affair with Randolph Ash is discovered in the course of the novel, has been made the possession of feminist literary criticism, which is the special target of Byatt's satire.
Her book is part of a minitrend of literary memoirs based on longtime possessions.
For a 2010 Talk of the Town piece, Ian Frazier wrote about a trip he took to the New York Public Library to view the annotated former possessions of various literary luminaries.
Australia's National Library has a surprise hit on its hands in an exhibition of rare books, letters, manuscripts, writers' possessions and other literary treasures borrowed from 42 collections in 24 countries.
He believed the possession of a deep literary culture was a prerequisite for being taken seriously as an artist in England, regardless of one's field.
IN A. S. Byatt's masterly "Possession," a pair of literary scholars untangle old documents to rewrite the biographies of two Victorian poets.
On the Guardian book club website, Possession stirred readers to unusually literary responses, some of which were like mini-critical essays.
