literary
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The editorial director and senior vice president of Catapult is widely known in literary circles for his meticulous and thoughtful approach to editing and for his support of the authors he works with.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
A campaign for a reprieve was supported by leading political and literary figures, including W B Yeats and George Bernard Shaw, but ultimately failed.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
With his first book, John Crow’s Devil, a religious drama about two small-town Jamaican preachers competing for leadership, James faced a literary hazing of sorts while trying to sell the manuscript.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
I wanted to make it a bit more literary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Although not reaching the virtuosic literary heights of incarceration essays penned by writers such as Thoreau or Martin Luther King Jr., the document was an oddly compelling account of the execrable details of his experience.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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