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• n  creative writing valued for esthetic content

• Even editors of noncommercial novels and belles-lettres feel the pressures to score with a Merv missile, a work that will get its author on a TV talk show, the most powerful .
• Louis Edward Sissman, 48, poet and essayist who was able, he said, to "compartmentalize" his mind and alternate between writing belles-lettres and advertising copy; after a ten .
• The world of belles-lettres is subject to cyclical hysteria, some of it fairly predictable, and it seems likely that Ross Macdonald (whose new novel carries a wistfully .

• belles lettres

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• Paris hotels attempt to lure customers by playing up literary links | theguardian.com
  Exploiting cultural connections has become a profitable marketing ploy for hoteliers in the French capital. The rise of the belles-lettres establishment, celebrating France's literary culture, and even that of its neighbours, is the latest marketing sensation in the French capital, as hoteliers come up with ever more innovative – or desperate – ways to attract guests.
  Aug. 26, 2013 - Hospitality Net