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Senna is a novelist and essayist.
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Time,
27 May 2026
Gabrielle Glancy is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Poetry Review.
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Gabrielle Glancy,
Rolling Stone,
9 May 2026
As a poet, novelist, and essayist, Wendell Berry is one of the great modern voices of agrarian values.
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René Ostberg,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
7 May 2026
Economist and essayist David Oks argued in an influential, widely read Substack post that most of this ATM story is just half the tale.
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Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
4 May 2026
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Time,
27 May 2026
Gabrielle Glancy is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Poetry Review.
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Gabrielle Glancy,
Rolling Stone,
9 May 2026
As a poet, novelist, and essayist, Wendell Berry is one of the great modern voices of agrarian values.
—
René Ostberg,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
7 May 2026
Economist and essayist David Oks argued in an influential, widely read Substack post that most of this ATM story is just half the tale.
—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
4 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for essayist
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Walden, at just 30 years of age, is already an accomplished graphic novelist with several award-winning books to her name.
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Steve Carell, who shockingly has never won an Emmy despite 11 nominations, should earn his 12th nod for playing a middle-aged novelist and concerned father in the heartfelt college comedy Rooster, which did surprisingly well for HBO.
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Use a playwright as company in a room that had previously seemed uninhabitable.
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The Tony-winning playwright, whose works include Take Me Out and The Assembled Parties, died of cancer in 2025 at 67.
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The theater was built by songwriter, dramatist and playwright Arthur Hammerstein to honor his father, Oscar Hammerstein I, and opened as Hammerstein’s Theater in 1927.
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In transcripts of hearings of the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Garber finds an upwelling of voices from the literary past, among them Christopher Marlowe, the revenge dramatist Thomas Kyd, and, from first to last, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare.
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To be a good poet or pamphleteer, like Thomas Paine or Samuel Johnson, requires a kind of day-to-day daring, with triumphs made in conversation and correspondence; a good banker or stockbroker makes his in columns of numbers.
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Even when insulted or thwarted – by Spanish intrigues on the Florida frontier, by British seizures in the Caribbean, by pamphleteers accusing him of being a monarch in disguise – Washington’s tone remained measured.
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Far from lumps of rock, the trojans, along with DJ and Dinkinesh (which is the Ethiopian name for the Lucy fossil), are windows into the past, and the storytellers of the Earth's most ancient history.
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Sun Yi is an award-winning personal brand strategist, storyteller, TEDx speaker, podcaster, and founder of Night Owls and Night Owl Nation.
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.
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For a satirist or a cynic, Esperantists are easy fodder.
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But satire, as a rule, falls flat when the satirist has so little to say.
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But despite some good moments and sharp dialogue in places (Ana Nogueria is the screenwriter), something feels a bit off.
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Sure, there’s a new director (Aaron Sorkin, the screenwriter of the original, is taking over for David Fincher) and a new actor is playing Mark Zuckerberg (Jeremy Strong replaces Jesse Eisenberg, who turned down the project).
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