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Recent Examples of essayist
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold chronicles the life of the essayist, novelist, screenwriter and critic Joan Didon through personal stories from behind the influential work.
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Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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The Emperor of Gladness, Ocean Vuong (May 13)
Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong’s third novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is a big-hearted ode to second chances.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 17 Dec. 2024
But any list like this has to include George Orwell, the English essayist and the author of two of the most famous political novels of the 20th century: 1984 and Animal Farm.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Aug. 2024
Ideas By Donovan McAbee October 28, 2024 7:00 AM EDT
McAbee is a poet, essayist, and theologian, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Hudson Review, The Sun magazine (U.S.), Garden & Gun, and elsewhere.
—Donovan McAbee, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
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Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
Buy Now: Second Life on Bookshop | Amazon | Barnes & Noble
The Emperor of Gladness, Ocean Vuong (May 13)
Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong’s third novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is a big-hearted ode to second chances.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 17 Dec. 2024
But any list like this has to include George Orwell, the English essayist and the author of two of the most famous political novels of the 20th century: 1984 and Animal Farm.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Aug. 2024
Ideas By Donovan McAbee October 28, 2024 7:00 AM EDT
McAbee is a poet, essayist, and theologian, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Hudson Review, The Sun magazine (U.S.), Garden & Gun, and elsewhere.
—Donovan McAbee, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for essayist
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When the teens travel to Capri for a summer getaway, Parthenope develops a chance bond with one of her favorite authors, real-life novelist John Cheever, played by Gary Oldman.—
Mike Miller,
EW.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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On Boxing Day, 2022, Kureishi, a novelist and screenwriter, experienced an accident that left him tetraplegic.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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The Book of Will, in CCA’s Black Box Theatre, written by one of America’s most celebrated contemporary playwrights, Lauren Gunderson, takes the audience to thepost-Shakespearean world of Elizabethan England.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Feb. 2025
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The comedy by American playwright Joseph Kesserlring, opened on Broadway Jan. 10, 1941.—
Kay Johnson,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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The authority has invested in developing the island’s talented artists, dramatists, songwriters, dancers and filmmakers, as well as in establishing a year-round calendar of vibrant cultural events, including the unmissable Tobago Carnival in October.—
Tobago House of Assembly,
Miami Herald,
6 Jan. 2025
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That looks set to continue with a new play from the veteran dramatist Howard Brenton set in 1942 and telling of a clandestine meeting at the Kremlin between Churchill and Stalin.—
Matt Wolf,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 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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All grifters are storytellers, weaving fictions more seductive than reality.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
6 Feb. 2025
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He is remembered most for being organized, a very hard worker, and a great storyteller.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
6 Feb. 2025
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Ladbroke's, in London…The Committee, a smart little group who do a revue of often funny, frozen improvisations, smashing head-on into politics…The wily, eighteenth-century satirist.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
2 Feb. 2025
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Jules Feiffer, the provocative satirist, cartoonist, playwright and 1960s counterculturist who wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols‘ classic Carnal Knowledge and Robert Altman‘s Popeye, has died.—
Chris Koseluk,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Jan. 2025
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Watch the Trailer for Laverne Cox's Clean Slate, The Last Show From a Late Sitcom Legend The series is the last one from the late Norman Lear, a pioneering screenwriter and producer known for creating socially relevant sitcoms.—
James Factora,
Them,
6 Feb. 2025
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Stone’s mother was an actress, screenwriter, and newspaper columnist who wrote under the name Spellman Stone, so pseudonyms were a family tradition.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Feb. 2025
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With his distinct style, business sense and comedy that’s been steadily consumed by the masses for over a quarter of a century, the comic has developed a fabulist folklore around his rise to fame akin to his favorite things outside of stand-up — videogames and professional wrestling.—
Nate Jackson,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Jan. 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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