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The Last Five Years follows the demise of a relationship between a rising novelist named Jamie (Jonas, 32) and a struggling actress named Cathy (Warren, 37), across two different timelines.
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Dave Quinn, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
The late 19th century was a hotbed of political violence, with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, the Phoenix Park murders in 1882 and the 1894 Greenwich Observatory bombing, among many other incidents, inspiring novelists on both sides of the Atlantic.
—Max Chapnick, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2025
The Indelible Lessons of Erasure Lavelle Porter December 27, 2023
A Percival Everett fan weighs in on the novelist’s approach to racial satire and considers the translation of Erasure to the big screen in American Fiction.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 31 Jan. 2025
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The novelist is 75.
—Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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Dave Quinn, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
The late 19th century was a hotbed of political violence, with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, the Phoenix Park murders in 1882 and the 1894 Greenwich Observatory bombing, among many other incidents, inspiring novelists on both sides of the Atlantic.
—Max Chapnick, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2025
The Indelible Lessons of Erasure Lavelle Porter December 27, 2023
A Percival Everett fan weighs in on the novelist’s approach to racial satire and considers the translation of Erasure to the big screen in American Fiction.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 31 Jan. 2025
Right Now Winter Reads for Cold Nights 10 Best Books of 2024
21st Century’s Best Books
The novelist is 75.
—Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for novelist
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Instead, Larson will win it behind the strength of Hendrick Motorsports, the New York Yankees of NASCAR — setting him up for another championship-contending Cup season and leaving all motorsport storytellers despondent, wondering what could’ve been.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Feb. 2025
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The writer of the issue was Peter David, a prolific genre storyteller whose own father fled the Nazis and who would later take to his website to compare the first Trump administration to Hitler.—
Darren Franich,
Vulture,
14 Feb. 2025
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Lilly Milman is an essayist based in Boston, Massachusetts.—
Lilly Milman,
Vox,
6 Feb. 2025
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In 2019, essayist Sarah Chihaya had a nervous breakdown that coincided with a bout of the titular anxiety disorder, which causes someone to have an intense and irrational fear of books and writing.—
Shannon Carlin,
TIME,
31 Jan. 2025
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This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
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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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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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Marshall is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer who specializes in trailblazing American women, including 19th-century journalist Margaret Fuller and midcentury poet Elizabeth Bishop.—
April Austin,
The Christian Science Monitor,
11 Feb. 2025
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The Party was targeting a biographer, an investigative reporter, a political commentator, and a legal correspondent.—
Ruth Margalit,
The New Yorker,
16 Jan. 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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At the same time, depicting a hijabi, a Muslim woman who wears a head covering, or a hijab, also posed challenges, even for screenwriter Marianna Ölmez, herself a Muslim, Verhoef added.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
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On November 19, 1977, the five finalists of the show’s first — and, ultimately, only — Anyone Can Host contest took the stage in Studio 8H alongside the evening’s host, actor and screenwriter Buck Henry, and introduced themselves to America.—
Sandra Gonzalez,
CNN,
14 Feb. 2025
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