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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for essayist
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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The boy who had once listened to enslaved storytellers had become a virtuoso yarn-spinner.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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