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Recent Examples of essayist
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
Athena Nassar is an Egyptian American poet, essayist, and short-story writer.
—Athena Nassar, The Atlantic, 3 May 2026
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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
Athena Nassar is an Egyptian American poet, essayist, and short-story writer.
—Athena Nassar, The Atlantic, 3 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for essayist
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Repetition is composed of a novelist’s remembrances of her teenage girlhood, a tumultuous time no matter what.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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The 2021 All Her Fault became the first book by Irish crime novelist Mara to get a screen adaptation when Peacock made it into a limited series with Gallagher, Carnival Films and UIS, a division of Universal Studio Group.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
11 June 2026
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On stage, Marvel has collaborated with playwrights and directors Edward Albee, Caryl Churchill, Jon Robin Baitz, and Ivo van Hove.—
Erik Hayden,
HollywoodReporter,
12 June 2026
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Besides all the people who make sacrifices to care for someone in poor health or in need, the inspirations for OnWord Theatre’s first staged musical were actress/playwright Anna Deavere Smith and playwright Lynn Nottage.—
David L. Coddon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 June 2026
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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.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
22 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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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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Her approach of looking at the world through the lens of a non-linear storyteller felt not only timely but essential to understanding a global cultural landscape outside traditional institutional frameworks.—
Thomas Rom,
ARTnews.com,
8 June 2026
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My life, my choices and roles, my skillsets as a producer, director, writer, comic book creator, vodcaster, storyteller of the year, my politics, my company, Color Farm Media, the impact, my partnerships, my collaboration, my future all speaks to this.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
6 June 2026
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Jan. 2026
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For a satirist or a cynic, Esperantists are easy fodder.—
Katie Thornton,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 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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Authorities have identified the hiker who suffered a fatal medical emergency in Runyon Canyon as 78-year-old screenwriter William Hasley.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
10 June 2026
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Lehane is a novelist, most recently of Small Mercies, and screenwriter.—
Time,
Time,
10 June 2026
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