Soft Skull publisher and all-around NYC belletrist Richard Nash recently posted a scathing opinion piece on this site about Book Expo America's decision to limit floor hours (and effectively cancel an opening night party) at BEA 2010. ❋ Unknown (2009)
David Duchovny reprises the role of Moody, the bawdy, cocksure and terminally lovesick belletrist transplanted from his native New York to Venice Beach. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A PERI-palooza of other groups with a leg up on stardom: Rock Bottom Remainders: Dave Barry, Stephen King and Amy Tan lead belletrist bar band. ❋ Unknown (2008)
One of the five he named is philosopher and belletrist Brandon Watson of Siris who, declining to use the delightfully ego-stroking graphic offered to us, has in turned memed me. ❋ Mike L (2007)
Peter Riis, proprietor of The New Companion and a "shameless and hardened belletrist," noticed the recent renaissance of hat-related posts here and sent me a link to a glorious advertisement he had posted a couple of years ago:THE PRICE OF FRIENDSHIP. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Today belles lettres both in French and English, is used rather rarely and the noun “belletrist” and the adjective “belletristic” have assumed a faintly derisive shade of frivolity and incon - sequence. ❋ REN (1968)
Bond-like hero than erudite belletrist, alluding as nonchalantly to Rage Against the Machine and Bart Simpson as he does 19th century radical French mathematician évariste Galois and René ❋ Unknown (2011)
But writers who overtly seek political change through fiction rarely succeed, according to British belletrist Ferdinand Mount, former editor of the Times Literary Supplement. ❋ John Barber (2011)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an essayist, belletrist, and researcher. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Nicholas Taleb is an essayist, belletrist, and researcher. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This quixotic, savage, shambolic literary provocateur may be the only remaining representative of that dying breed, the Australian belletrist. ❋ Peteranderson (2010)
Thinking about the economy, black swans and becoming a belletrist ❋ Unknown (2009)
However I do like the sound of belletrist more so than essayist or, well, blogger. ❋ Unknown (2009)
For example: "NNT is an essayist, belletrist, & researcher only interested in one single topic, chance (particularly extreme & rare events, the" Black Swans "i.e. outliers)". ❋ Unknown (2009)
Thinking about the economy, black swans and becoming a belletrist Boing Boing. ❋ Unknown (2009)
