A great post this week on Jane Friedman's blog got me thinking, as I often do, about the word "literary."

It's everywhere:  Literary festival.  Literary agent.  Literary success. Literary web site or blog.

Maybe I'm an anachronism, but when I hear the word "literary," my former-French-literature-major mind skips immediately to titles by authors like Tolstoy, Dickens, Voltaire and Sartre.  Or on the contemporary side, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Annie Proux.  I don't f...