Word: litterateur
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...innovation is not enough. The department is currently considering a plan to reduce its concentration requirements and eventually to eliminate its introductory literature surveys, English 10a and 10b, “Modern British Writers”—“the bane of many an aspiring Harvard litterateur,” as one Crimson news article helpfully explained...
English 10a and 10b, the long-standing surveys of canonical works (and bane of many an aspiring Harvard litterateur), will cease to be taught within the next two years, according to two English professors familiar with the department’s discussions...
...WHITE His mother wasa psychologist. "I must have been eight," White tells us, "when [she] gave me my first Rorschach." He survived her many attempts to analyze him, well enough to become a lyrical novelist (A Boy's Own Story) and a shrewd biographer of the French convict-litterateur Jean Genet. Life takes White through New York and Paris as well as through lovers, hustlers and the shopworn theatrics of S&M. The chapters that detail his forays into sexual abjection don't always work, but in the end, his book bears out the line he quotes from...
Hankering for a hot page-turner in the new year? Check out Escape to Hell, a tour de force without remorse, penned originally in Arabic by Libyan strongman and litterateur MUAMMAR GADDAFI. The volume's 20-page preface, by PIERRE SALINGER, the former J.F.K. press secretary and international oddball, presents Gaddafi as a multifaceted Arab and Islamic figure too long typecast as a one-dimensional thug in the West. The book delivers an eclectic mix of Gaddafi essays and short stories. You can curl up with The Suicide of the Astronaut, the dictator's winsome tale of a space traveler...
...same sense of irony enlivens the author's view of American writing. In a history of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he describes a long forgotten poet and overstuffed shirt. Appointed permanent secretary of the Academy, the litterateur wrote a formal acceptance to himself, signed: "Very respectfully yours, Robert Underwood Johnson...