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Recent Examples of essayist The works of African American novelist and essayist John Edgar Wideman were read by WORDTheatre members Gary Dourdan, Chris Chalk and Ronald Guttman at the Players Club. Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025 Lucky for us, the Chicago Humanities Festival has paired her with another fabulous genre-bending essayist — Evanston’s own Eula Biss. Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025 So should Senator Schumer, by Mariel Garza, guest essayist, The New York Times. Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 27 Mar. 2025 Our essayist challenges that notion and encourages us to embrace ennui as a time to rest and rekindle the spirit. Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for essayist
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Noun
  • Wolfe, an inventive novelist and the father of New Journalism, is still widely read seven years after his death at the age of 88.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 24 June 2025
  • Protect the Mütter created a petition—signed by more than thirty thousand people, including Roach, the magician Penn Jillette, and the novelist Neil Gaiman—that called for the dismissal of Irons and Quinn, among other measures.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • She was frequently caught short by the playwright’s winking ambush.
    Han Ong, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
  • Hamilton was married to poet and playwright Frank Jenkins (Driving While Black in Beverly Hills) from 1964 until his death in 2014.
    Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • Conrad Earp, Asteroid City Of the three dramatists on this list, Earp is obviously the most developed.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
  • Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • By Timothy O'Grady July 8, 2024 Belfast: city of riveters, inventors, linen mill girls, boxers, pamphleteers, revolutionaries, Lambeg drummers, Irish bagpipers, mission hall preachers, and mustachioed burghers with pocket watches.
    Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024
  • However Elena’s modelling career takes off, while Eddie spends his days wandering the streets of New York getting into fights with pamphleteers.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 May 2024
Noun
  • Director Giovanna Sardelli is a terrific storyteller, and in this case, her artistry works hand-to-glove with Nina Ball’s beautifully rustic scenic design.
    David John Chávez, Mercury News, 28 June 2025
  • Since then, he’s opted to help provide a platform for newer indie storytellers, and Ponyboi star-screenwriter River Gallo is the latest example of that intention.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Created by English writer and satirist Charlie Brooker, the Netflix anthology series weaves our anxieties over technology's growing ubiquity with sci-fi and horror elements, as well as a bit of comedy.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • House Bill 1277 could have been written by the satirists at The Onion.
    Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Brooks and Bancroft had one son together, Max, now a screenwriter himself.
    Alex Apatoff, People.com, 28 June 2025
  • With Villeneuve onboard, the search is now underway for a screenwriter, and eventually, the next famous face brave enough to accept the mission of playing the suave super spy.
    EW.com, EW.com, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Many of the hustlers and fabulists who populate Crews’s fiction are typical American strivers.
    Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • Playing in the space between social realism and fabulist storytelling, Kezilahabi’s novel asks moral questions about parents’ responsibilities and the effects of women’s liberation, sparing no one but withholding final judgment.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 16 June 2025

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