prosaist

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Noun
  • The main point of contention seemed to be identifying Timothy Leary as a poet (seven minutes) or a prophet (half an hour).
    Dennis McNally, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
  • What To Know Pike was a lawyer, poet and writer who played a major role in developing the judiciary in Arkansas before the Civil War.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In 2024, Miranda collaborated with fellow playwright Eisa Davis on the musical project Warriors, a concept album themed after the 1979 film The Warriors.
    Katie Labovitz, People.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Closely | Opinion The celebrated Lebanese composer and playwright Ziad Rahbani, son of the iconic singer Fairuz, died suddenly on July 26.
    Alia Brahimi, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025
Noun
  • The screenwriters, Gabriel Dalla Torre and Lucia Bracelis, along with producers Cecilia Agüero and Gisela Levin, aim to create a narrative that blends dark humor and tension.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Martin Scorsese, Mike Nichols and I’m Still Here Oscar winner Walter Salles were attached to direct at various points, while scribes involved including Jeff King and Ransom screenwriter Richard Price.
    Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Six Days of the Condor author — whose book became the Robert Redford film Three Days of the Condor and the current Max Irons TV series Condor — has published more than a dozen novels and three times that many short stories, and has also worked as a journalist and a scriptwriter for TV and film.
    Lizz Schumer, People.com, 16 July 2025
  • The growing awareness of feminism in the ’70s spurred Houlihan’s transformation from caricature to real person, but a lot of the change was due to Swit’s influence on the scriptwriters.
    Mark Kennedy, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • Conrad Earp, Asteroid City Of the three dramatists on this list, Earp is obviously the most developed.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
  • Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Jessica Kiang Film critic, essayist and programmer with bylines in Variety, Sight & Sound, Criterion, Mubi, The New York Times, The LA Times, The Washington Post, Film Comment and Rolling Stone, among other outlets.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 June 2025
  • The essayist and Transcendentalist kingpin was impressed.
    James Marcus, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Featuring a costume from each of the bard’s 38 plays, produced over the past six decades, the storied Shiva Theater is all decked out with drag worn by the greatest of the greats.
    Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
  • But Mothers, the latest novel from a reigning bard of women in crisis, Brenda Lozano, looks to be more thrilling than silly.
    Literary Hub July 1, Literary Hub, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • IndyStar's newsroom internships are an important tradition that benefits readers, the news industry and aspiring journalists.
    Tory Basile, IndyStar, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Where relevant, the BBC will look to incorporate its journalists on the show, too — especially if there is a news angle to be discussed.
    Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
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“Prosaist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosaist. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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