literary
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Given the practical realities of production, honoring a literary source and its fan base can have its challenges.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
The thefts targeted rare Russian classics worth millions of euros in total, including by 19th-century literary greats Pushkin and Nikolai Gogol.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
Fame brought her introductions to such literary heavyweights as Carson McCullers, Carl Sandburg, Jean-Paul Sartre, Edith Sitwell and Dylan Thomas, all of whom came to regard her with respect and affection.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Rowbottom’s husband, the novelist Jon Lindsey, pointed to her instinct for subjects that literary fiction has historically dismissed — either as unserious, feminine or culturally overexposed.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
Through the narrative, he’d made a kind of literary peace with his phantom father.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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