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Example sentences for: literary

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Perhaps the most surprising revelations are left to the end when, in a passage of acknowledgements, Jesus reveals that he has a wife called Norris and a literary agent called Andrew Wylie.
Defenders call it a "largely episodic collection of great moments that aren't all causally linked in that comforting way we're used to" (Yahlin Chang, Newsweek ). Tom Wolfe, who attacked the book in the literary magazine Biblio on the basis of its title--without having read a word of the manuscript--draws a stinging retort from Kirn in the latest issue of Tin House , in which he writes a lovely parody of a negative review for his own book: "I consider it my duty as the author of this offensive work, to carry even further Wolfe's condemnation in hopes of neutralizing, from the start, a potentially harmful literary contagion."
Literary reportage ought to make up the bulk of the list.
Yardley adds that when he said eight years ago that Tobias Wolff's memoir was not as good as his brother Geoffrey's, that was also a purely literary judgment.
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