The meal can come from Elaine's ("would that be literary enough food for you?").
Who would be your literary problem solver of choice?
Espiridiona Cenda would be our literary star of the moment.
But even if he weren't Archbishop of Canterbury, he would be a literary critic worth publishing, and this is a review worth reading anyway.
His writings would be a literary contribution, even if there were others who may differ with the material and style of his expression … We conclude by observing this: 'Let the author be resurrected to what he is best at.
Plays by T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and Jean Genet have been presented at the Y. Another possibility would be a literary cafe so writers and those introducing them could talk with the audience before and after readings.
It's no stretch to suggest that without Achebe we would be a literary culture with fewer voices, less engagement, less of a sense of how wide a world writers can (and should) engage.
They awkwardly get up to leave, Leithauser and Batmanglij, little and large, two would-be literary raconteurs in moth-eaten overcoats, their names in dimming neon lights: indie's odd couple, off to search for new futures.
There are actual marketing hazards to making your book look too enjoyable — I wrote sixty-thousand-some words of prose, but because I threw in half a dozen cartoons and put a funny drawing on the cover, my would-be literary essays often get shelved in Graphic Novels or Humor.
With a few clicks — O.K., more than a few — on his electric typewriter, Mailer essentially created a new genre for a generation of would-be literary philosophers covering politics (most of whom, sadly, lacked for anything approaching Mailer's gift for social commentary).
Marry that with his portrait of two would-be literary artists as young men in mid-80s London, and you have an audacious scenario that, on my reading, falls slightly short of the high expectations with which some readers might approach a Warner novel.
