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Other parts of the world where politics got in the way of writerly unity—for instance, every nation colonised by Europe—was of much less interest.
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Kamila Shamsie
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Exuberance and dreaminess, writerly sophistication and technical ambition, drugs and madness: Wilson’s exquisite craft captured all of it, with his band the Beach Boys leaving behind a singularly inventive and exultant body of work, one that scripted and embodied California to the world.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
Huston could recognize the ways of that brood: her own renowned and eccentric family inhabited that domestic world of privilege, power, infidelity, and intrigue that became Christie’s writerly milieu.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
Central Florida — a place where Arnett’s writerly claim is now as firm as Flannery O’Connor’s was to rural Georgia — is increasingly unlivable: expensive housing, low-paying jobs, unchecked gentrification.
—Sam Worley, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
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Kamila Shamsie
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Exuberance and dreaminess, writerly sophistication and technical ambition, drugs and madness: Wilson’s exquisite craft captured all of it, with his band the Beach Boys leaving behind a singularly inventive and exultant body of work, one that scripted and embodied California to the world.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
Huston could recognize the ways of that brood: her own renowned and eccentric family inhabited that domestic world of privilege, power, infidelity, and intrigue that became Christie’s writerly milieu.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
Central Florida — a place where Arnett’s writerly claim is now as firm as Flannery O’Connor’s was to rural Georgia — is increasingly unlivable: expensive housing, low-paying jobs, unchecked gentrification.
—Sam Worley, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
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“Writerly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/writerly. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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