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His 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.
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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’
April 24, 2022
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
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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’
April 24, 2022
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
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“Writerly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/writerly. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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