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Recent Examples of essayist
In print, the author and essayist has written about Banu Mushtaq’s literary rebellion.
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Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
Both of them were writers—Lowell a poet, Hardwick an essayist and novelist.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2026
The latter book was Straub's favorite piece of work from the late director and essayist.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 7 Apr. 2026
One of the first people to strongly encourage Crane to write the book was Joe Queenan, a prolific essayist and columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
—Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026
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Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
Both of them were writers—Lowell a poet, Hardwick an essayist and novelist.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2026
The latter book was Straub's favorite piece of work from the late director and essayist.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 7 Apr. 2026
One of the first people to strongly encourage Crane to write the book was Joe Queenan, a prolific essayist and columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
—Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for essayist
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The travelers are the famous novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Hüller), who is serving on this trip as her father’s assistant, driver, editor, and barber.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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The screenplay is co-written by Annila and Rachelle Atalla, a Scottish-Egyptian novelist and screenwriter.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
15 May 2026
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But one thing that grew up in this production of playwright Luis Alfaro’s Chicano trilogy that the theatre began two years ago was Three Bone.—
Zach Dennis,
Charlotte Observer,
15 May 2026
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It was later renamed in 1959 for playwright Eugene O'Neill, widely considered the father of modern American drama.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
15 May 2026
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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.—
Charlie Tyson,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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The debate centers on alternate theories proposing that Shakespeare was a front for the real dramatist (or dramatists).—
Gitanjali Roy,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2026
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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.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
12 Jan. 2026
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And this is the director in him, the storyteller in him.—
Sheena McKenzie,
CNN Money,
18 May 2026
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The winners in this next phase will be the companies that can build around human storytellers who have earned genuine trust at scale.—
Lin Cherry,
Fortune,
17 May 2026
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 2026
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But satire, as a rule, falls flat when the satirist has so little to say.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
12 May 2026
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The musical marks the latest major project for Yankovic, whose career as America's foremost musical satirist has stretched more than four decades.—
Dave Quinn,
PEOPLE,
12 May 2026
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Colbert is co-writing the script with his son, and Philippa Boyens, screenwriter on the original trilogy.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
12 May 2026
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His dad, inspired by Barker, recently quit his job as a psychiatric nurse practitioner to become a full-time screenwriter.—
Alex Barasch,
New Yorker,
11 May 2026
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