They also have literary cachet: he is a famous novelist, and she is one of his most devoted and, it would seem, insightful readers.

Vampires, pale and seductive, have enjoyed literary cachet for nearly two centuries.

AS Southern cities go, Knoxville, Tenn., doesn't have the literary cachet of, say, Oxford, Miss., William Faulkner's hometown.

Perhaps Mr. Carcaterra, whose last book was the best-selling "Sleepers" (made into a movie starring Robert De Niro), was trying to acquire some literary cachet.

Whatever literary cachet SF had laboriously earned evaporated overnight.

He says there are obvious trends in Oscarology that favor historical epics, "the A-list productions" and "movies that have literary cachet."

They gave the press a certain literary cachet, though most of the titles were along the lines of "Until She Screams" and "There's a Whip in My Valise."

As do Katie Roiphe, Ted Heller and David Updike, along with numerous others whose last names have built-in literary cachet.

Uncanny as it may seem, and perhaps a touch ironical as well, Joyce Carol Oates has added enormously to her already enormous literary cachet with these tiny - mostly exquisite - gems.

Everybody was there, except maybe Matthew Scudder, the hard-drinking ex-cop who gave the place its literary cachet.