fictioneer

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Recent Examples of fictioneer The British science-fictioneer has, as a screenwriter and director, staked out a particular genre of galaxy-brain theater. James Poniewozik, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fictioneer
Noun
  • The internet is already a part of us, inside of us; and maybe what remains for the digital novelist is to get outside, to gather up the whole snarled mess of tubes and plunk it down on an examination table.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
  • Cosby is a gifted novelist whose passionate writing about the modern South has garnered him much critical praise and the admiration of President Obama.
    Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • The Visionary Tribute is designed to recognize boundary-pushing work that will inspire the next generation of storytellers.
    Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2025
  • The collaboration will also inform the development of new AI tools, ensuring that emerging technologies align with the needs of storytellers.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 May 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
Noun
  • This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The works of African American novelist and essayist John Edgar Wideman were read by WORDTheatre members Gary Dourdan, Chris Chalk and Ronald Guttman at the Players Club.
    Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025
  • Lucky for us, the Chicago Humanities Festival has paired her with another fabulous genre-bending essayist — Evanston’s own Eula Biss.
    Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025

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“Fictioneer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictioneer. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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