His literary table talk pricks up your ears.
Six literary "table hosts" — writers who sit with guests — have declined to attend in light of the award.
So, no resting on laurels; let's keep pushing, every year, to make sure the that the count does work, and to expand the potential benefits to every underrepresented group clamoring for a place at the literary table.
With cultural conversations increasingly focused on women's issues, from the "war on women" waged during the 2012 American election cycle, hand-wringing over whether women can "have it all," and books saluting or decrying the end of men, this misplaced generation of female crime writers deserves, more than ever, to take their place at the literary table.
In the lobby restaurant, famous for its literary round table, lunch for two with wine costs about $60.
The literary round table of the hotel will be discussed over tea by Jim Pappas, an actor and radio personality, and Karen Kincaid, a hotel staff member.
Within a year or two, Mr. Gregorian recalled, The Washington Post had ranked the sponsorship of a Literary Lions table No. 2 in social cachet, just after an invitation to a private dinner with Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace.
On Sunday from 3 to 4 30 p.m., the 92nd Street Y will sponsor a tea and a talk at the Algonquin Hotel, 59 West 44th Street, about the literary round table at the hotel.
A literary round table in September titled "Is Literature a Provocation?" had the writers Sorokin and Viktor Yerofeyev, among others, throwing around references to Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dante, Flaubert, Céline, Hitler, Mel Gibson and Salman Rushdie, and inevitable ruminations on the nature of Russia.
One can also stay at the Algonquin Hotel on West 44th Street, home of the famed literary Round Table of the 1920's, or have a drink at Chumley's (temporarily closed due to a recent fire next door) in Greenwich Village, which was frequented by John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Edna Ferber, Simone de Beauvoir and Jack Kerouac.
Writing non-fiction won't get you onto any literary high tables, but it is still a noble calling: your words could instill lifelong curiosity in your readers.
