Clare was for some time one of the most fated and celebrated '
literary lions' of the Regency, and his impact lasted in the circles of the chattering classes.
None of this would have been too bad had Roth, befitting of writers of his modest ambitions and capabilities, taken his place in the second or third row of American
literary lions. Instead, his intoxicating admixture of solipsism and lust made him the patron saint of a new generation of American Jewish authors, for whom writing is a torrent of self-obsessions, hang-ups, and put-ons, mitigated by nothing more than a thin veneer of intellectualism.
While
literary lions such as Milan Kundera continued to publish from abroad long after the reasons for their exile had disappeared, those who had stayed through the bad times--most of them contemporaries of Vaclav Havel, born in 1936--found themselves "forced to re-explain the communist period to younger readers who have no persona] memories of political repression."
Many, including a number of
literary lions, adored Baudelaire's works.
"Keys to the City of Asheville: History: Meet Asheville's
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These qualities drew the handsome, firm-jawed figure into the circle of beautiful actresses, among them Greta Garbo, Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr;
literary lions and movie moguls with hairy chests, most notably the director John Huston and the macho-man himself, Ernest Hemingway.
Its praises have been sung by many
literary lions over the years--but we were delighted to learn that others in the business of publishing illustrated history value its qualifies as highly as we do: as you can read on the opposite page, the prize money for our picture researcher of the year award is being donated to the London Library to help it continue in its unique manner.
(Here's hoping you're already familiar with living gay
literary lions such as Alan Hollinghurst, Felice Picano, Andrew Holleran, Edmund White and others.)
The reader ambles from place to place with Rifbjerg, meeting the
literary lions of the past and present (Tom Kristensen, Villy Sorensen, William Heinesen, Jorgen-Frantz Jacobsen, Thorkild Bjornvig, Tove Ditlevsen), rubbing shoulders with the great and near-great who are sometimes brought down a peg or two by the irreverent Rifbjerg.
Horizon later became home to such
literary lions as T.S.
Evelyn wants the club to have a more sophisticated name, something literary like The Left Bank
Literary Lions or The Literary Doyennes of Center City.
Part of his fun is referencing nearly all of the
literary lions who've said something about consumer culture, borrowing styles and dropping names along the way.
Work by
literary lions Frank McCourt, John Updike and Grace Paley has appeared in its pages.
gallery of portraits and profiles of African-American
literary lionsThe book describes the life that Toklas and Stein lead in Paris, including their at-homes with such artists,
literary lions, and intellectuals as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Henri Matisse, and Georges Braque.