1. Dyer and Bargen spread word of their project mainly to friends with a literary bent and people in academia. 2. Gaines tried to give the magazine a literary bent, Lapham said, assigning work to writers like George Plimpton, John Updike and Chip McGrath. 3. He had a literary bent and an infallible faith in the human imagination, which was one of his great subjects. 4. He encounters other lonely sailors, including some with a striking literary bent. 5. His father, a doctor, had a literary bent. |
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