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Creative-writing programs are designed on the theory that students who have never published a poem can teach other students who have never published a poem how to write a publishable poem.
And there's been books that couldn't be published - I would get informed by a publisher that they would like to publish X but, you know, in whatever country this was not considered publishable.
Perhaps Mr Donohue's spring audit of America's overreaching prosecutors will yield publishable results.
It soared to the top of bestseller lists and Hillary Clinton described Miss West, at her 90th birthday party, as "a national treasure".Miss West's message was still controversial but now publishable.
The author, a professor of law at Yale, had written seven non-fiction books, including "The Dissent of the Governed", "God's Name in Vain" and "The Culture of Disbelief", but not a single word of publishable fiction.
I thought of this recently while I was shearing a piece on black voters into something approaching publishable (or at least file-able) shape.The Congressional Black Caucus exists, according to its mission statement, "to promote the public welfare through legislation designed to meet the needs of millions of neglected citizens".
A Protestant to his bones, Mr Updike toiled at his typewriter, writing three publishable pages a day, a book a year, working in an office each morning from 9am until lunch, convinced that everything around him, however mundane, had a deeper significance.In this cascade of words, some work was inevitably pedestrian.
TURBO-CAPITALISM: WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY.By Edward Luttwak.HarperCollins; 290 pages; $26Weidenfeld & Nicolson; £20SHORT works of fiction are eminently publishable ; a novella by Ian McEwan won the Booker prize last year.
Some New Journalists freely admitted to using those techniques, arguing that they made their stories readable and publishable without sacrificing the essential truthfulness of the tale.
Moreover, literature publishable at one time often lost favour later; although nominally acceptable, it was frequently unobtainable.
A generation of brilliant writers have done this, from EM Forster (with Maurice, whose publication he resisted in his lifetime: "publishable – but worth it?" he asked) to Edmund White, Armistead Maupin and the earlier works of Alan Hollinghurst, in which homosexual is not incidental – it can't be – it has to be the heart of the story.
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The word "publishable" functions primarily as an adjective . It modifies a noun to indicate that something is suitable, ready, or of sufficient quality to be published. Ludwig AI confirms it is grammatically correct and usable in written English.
Expression frequency: Very common
