In short, Bolaño's imaginary writers cover the same breadth of ground as any selection of writers.
She explained her change of direction, from the self-consciously arty singer-songwriterisms of her 2010 debut The Family Jewels – with its similarities to Sparks and Lene Lovich – to the more straightforward pop approach of Electra Heart, an album assembled by a selection of writers and producers for hire who have previously turned out hits for Ronan Keating, Dido, Katy Perry and Britney Spears.
The beefed-up Literature & Fiction section projects something of a salon feel, with a stimulating selection of writers naming their favorites books of the year.
Among the recipients named by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, acting on nominations by a selection committee of writers, literary scholars and editors, were five fiction writers, three poets, one nonfiction writer and one playwright.
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, here is a selection of eight writers on photographs that they are thankful for.
For Mr. Zwick and Mr. Herskovitz, the road to such a distinctive style starts with the selection of staff writers.
JAIPUR, Rajasthan — Amid much controversy, the Jaipur Literature Festival opened with a large selection of Pakistani writers on Thursday.
What's Wrong with the World represents an extrapolation of Chesterton's original response to a query posed in so many words by the Times to a selection of eminent writers and thinkers of the day.
Intended to be a biennial, it was three years before the next festival, "Travel in Words," took place, and by 2006 the set-up was sleeker and the program tighter, with an impressive selection of travel writers, including William Dalrymple, Dervla Murphy, Geoff Dyer and Colin Thubron, holding forth.
The two decided to pool resources and call on a selection of their writer-friends -- eight Asian-American (among them, Ping Chong, Philip Kan Gotanda and David Henry Hwang) and eight non-Asian-American (among them, Constance Congdon, Maria Irene Fornes, Jose Rivera and Mac Wellman).
If the selection of French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio as the 2008 Nobel literature laureate has anything to tell us, it's that Horace Engdahl means what he says.
