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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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The Denver horror novelist was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and endured a lumpectomy, four rounds of chemotherapy and a double mastectomy.
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The 2025 Laureate in Literature, the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, made no mention of humanity’s future.
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Christina Anderson is a playwright, tv writer, screenwriter, and educator.
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The collaborative rehearsal process allowed the actor, playwright and director to shape the work together.
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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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Because the alcohol drives the storytellers toward vernacular expression, these pieces can seem more alive and authentic, more relatable, than big-budget, big-screen productions.
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Mallaby, a longtime financial journalist, is a nimble storyteller, and his portrait of one of the single-minded personalities plunging the world into an uncertain future is also an engaging drama of discovery.
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As an auto-fictionist or a minimalist—whatever.
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Comedian and political satirist Bill Maher, center left, applauds for John Mellencamp during the 27th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Celebrating Bill Maher.
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For a satirist or a cynic, Esperantists are easy fodder.
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Brooks and Bancroft had one son together, Max, now a screenwriter himself.
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Her work as a screenwriter has been supported by The Black List, SFFILM, Women in Film Los Angeles and The Gotham Week Project Market.
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