Berlin in Lights, which ran for 17 days in November 2007, contextualized a Berlin Philharmonic residency with a healthy sampling of other musical styles associated with the city, as well as a clutch of related visual-arts and literary presentations.
Or, at least, there will be literary presentations, a bus tour of Roth-honored localthoughaltheugh the site of the burlesque house where the young Alexander Portnoy sat in panicky awe alongside his graying, grim-faced companions seems, for some reason, not to be on the itinerary), an "invitation only" party at the Newark Museum, and a show of Roth-related photographs at the Newark Public Library.
Watching Orson Welles's film adaptation (with Anthony Perkins as K) is no substitute for experiencing what one critic memorably described as "not the literary presentation of a nightmare, but its literal transcription".
In Celebration The 75th Anniversary Africana Heritage Festival, a weeklong series of concerts, film screenings, forums and performing, literary and visual presentations that explore and celebrate the global African experience, begins at 7 tonight at Riverside Church in Morningside Heights.
Sincere and literary in its presentation of themes — "Animal House" it ain't — the movie aims for quirky comedy but mostly settles for broad.
The book world revolves around book launches, literary societies and the presentation of prizes, all of which take place in central London.
The Norske Selskab, which lasted until 1812, not only was a forum for literary discussion and the presentation of new works but also was a nationalistic affirmation of Norway's cultural, if not political, independence of Denmark.
Both the book and the essay lack perspective on the Murdochization of media since Evans's London triumphs; his pioneering Condé Nast Traveler's muckraking in a travel magazine, and its presentation of literary contributors in a field that sorely lacked them; and shakeups that aided both U.S. News & World Report and Random House at the time.
Aside from the fact that liking different baby names hardly seems like an egregious red flag, there's also the possibility that the wife was a little too busy, you know, cooking this guy's baby to prepare a Powerpoint presentation of literary names.
And yet I dimly understood that his vague self-presentation as a literary character was symbolic, metaphoric: somehow he was the ghostly transposition of the old journalist to whom I bid my last farewell.
Since passive presentation of historical, literary, or philosophical pictures must be avoided, the instructor must strive to bring peoples and persons of the past to the fore as living people: practice in recognizing many human types sharpens the pupil's "ethical eye", securing the child from dangerous surprises in life (SW II: 50).
