Recent Examples on the WebHis great achievement, and Moses’s and Neugebauer’s, lies in the fact that such an effusion — hardly the only one in The Ally — feels not only truthful but real, earned and human, an expression not of writerly grandiosity but of character need.—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2024 Ruth, as a character, alternates frustratingly between writerly perceptiveness and more stereotyped neuroses.—Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024 Books Jonathan Franzen shares some secrets, sort of, in his first public appearance for ‘Crossroads’
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Hill works through this, with some success, through sheer writerly grace.—Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023 In addition to his writerly endeavors, Tortorella recently appeared in the Apple TV+ series City on Fire, based on the bestselling novel by Garth Risk Hallberg.—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2023 Ultimately, the most writerly creation is Dora herself.—Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023 Buyers at the very high end of the market may romanticize an aura of writerly brilliance but are less likely to pay much for it.—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 31 Jan. 2023 Kuang’s narrative palpates the nuances of cultural performance and writerly ethics, finally concluding that all authors steal for material anyway.—Zoe Hu, Washington Post, 12 May 2023 Few rappers are more writerly.—Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2021
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