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Recent Examples of essayist For Sinno, who is also a novelist, essayist, and translator, this question could not be more personal, reaching into the very core of her identity. Leslie Camhi, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025 James, written by author and professor Percival Everett and narrated by Dominic Hoffman took home the award for Best Literary Fiction & Classics, while There's Always This Year written and narrated by poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib took home Best Non-Fiction. Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025 More than a decade later, there’s still an essayist’s economy in Hunter’s writing. Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 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
  • The novelist, screenwriter and series creator is set to debut in summer 2025 Alien: Earth, a prequel for FX to the 1979 film by director Ridley Scott, with Hawley showrunning the sci-fi horror series set to bow on Hulu.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2025
  • Over the course of his more than 20-year career, Hawley’s work as a novelist, screenwriter, series creator, showrunner and director has garnered acclaim – winning an Emmy, Writers Guild, PEN, Critics’ Choice, and Peabody Awards – and passionate response from audiences.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • In the late 2010s, while carving out her path as a playwright in New York, Celine Song found herself with a somewhat peculiar side hustle.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 2 May 2025
  • As a playwright, McLeod has worked with The Playwrights Realm, No Guarantees Productions, Goodman Theatre, Ashland New Plays Festival, IAMA Theatre Company, and many more.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 2 May 2025
Noun
  • Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
  • White is simply too gifted a dramatist, and too acute an observer of human foibles, for these concerns to feel forced.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Feb. 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
  • The boy who had once listened to enslaved storytellers had become a virtuoso yarn-spinner.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The two-day event is expected to bring together more than 550 storytellers across seven outdoor stages and 15 indoor venues.
    Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • As beginnings go, the filmmaker offers up a hilarious theme-setting blind date that even a premier satirist like George Saunders would envy.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Greg Gutfeld, Fox News’s late-night satirist, scoffed at the idea that Mr. Newsom and Mr. Walz were trying to define masculinity for the Democratic Party.
    Laurel Rosenhall, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Written by Academy Nicholl fellowship finalist screenwriter Victoria Male, the story follows Sweetin as Olivia Hughes, a woman who appears to have it all.
    Kelsie Gibson, People.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The minds behind Hocus Pocus 3 are brewing up a fresh potion of sisterly magic, screenwriter Jen D'Angelo exclusively tells EW.
    EW.com, EW.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Irishman — long and boring, based on the self-serving memoirs of a fabulist and a creep — was supposed to be the film of the year.
    Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The infamous Long Island fabulist needs revenue from the podcast to pay the $205,000 in forfeiture cash that would be due a month before sentencing, his lawyers wrote in a letter to Federal Court Judge Joanna Seybert.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025

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