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The answer may or may not be English novelist Frances Brooke’s The History of Emily Montague, the story of an epistolary friendship between several characters, including the book’s namesake.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Oct. 2025 -
By Emily Bazelon The novelist anticipated our bizarre present.—
Astead W. Herndon Astead W. Herndon Emily Bazelon Parul Sehgal Andrew Ross Sorkin Kwame Anthony Appiah Lisa Donovan Julian Brave NoiseCat John Hodgman,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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This might compel me to reshape the narrator’s style and tone in hopes of conjuring a more engaging storyteller.—
Vauhini Vara,
The Atlantic,
16 Oct. 2025
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Colleagues saw her as a yenta, a mentor and a storyteller who was always tough and true to herself.—
NPR,
NPR,
16 Oct. 2025
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Trouble doubles down with the arrival of Baroness Eloise Bosquet de Wagner Wehrhorn (Ana de Armas), a big-talking fabulist who arrives on the island like a Real Housewife of Floreana, with dreams of building a luxury hotel on the island.—
Adam Graham,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Aug. 2025
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Many people do not know when LLMs are lying to them, which is unsurprising given that the chatbots are very convincing fabulists, serving up slop with unflappable confidence to their unsuspecting audience.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
15 Aug. 2025
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Baggot, who will also serve as executive producer, is a novelist, essayist, poet and associate professor at Florida State University’s College of Motion Picture Arts.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
9 Oct. 2025
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Robin Myers is a poet, translator, essayist, and 2023 NEA Translation Fellow.—
Ganesh Marín,
The Dial,
7 Oct. 2025
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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
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The long poems pose an additional problem for a biographer: in these retrospective works, written in the seventies and eighties, Schuyler became a late-breaking autobiographer.—
Dan Chiasson,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
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“Fictionist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fictionist. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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