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Recent Examples of essayist 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 Tendler can’t square how to both love men and live under patriarchy — something writers, philosophers, and essayists have long been pondering. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for essayist 
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Noun
  • The novelist was catapulted to worldwide fame when her spicy fantasy novel Fourth Wing — the first of five in her Empyrean series — became a bestselling sensation and one of the hottest reads of 2023.
    Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Each year, Austenites flock to locations all across southwest England, where the novelist spent most of her life.
    Cat Sposato, AFAR Media, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The story gained massive popularity following a stop-motion animation film by Henry Selick, and was later adapted as a musical by the playwright Zinnie Harris and the composer Louis Barabbas, and was set to be helmed by Leeds Playhouse’s Artistic Director James Brining.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Each actress is given a singular story by the playwright, a tall order to pull off in the midst of the central focus – a man entirely devoted to life as a dog.
    Michelle F. Solomon and, Miami Herald, 28 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
  • As a dramatist, Baker has long excelled at conveying complex emotion with something as simple as a pause, and the silences of Janet Planet are just as powerful on the big screen.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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  • The filmmaker, who has amassed an impressively diverse resume that spans genres, budgets and blockbusters, made the most of his time in the spotlight by retracing his festival roots and delivering a call to action to all of the storytellers in the room.
    Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Correspondent Lee Cowan talked with actor Robert Redford, founder of the non-profit Sundance Institute, about the history of the festival, and of the filmmakers' labs that help up-and-coming cinematic storytellers hone their craft.
    David Morgan, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The red carpet show hosted prior to the event on ITV 2 will be presented by DJ Harriet Rose alongside satirist and comedian Munya Chawawa.
    Thomas Smith, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2025
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  • Lionsgate announced the biopic in February 2022, at which time the estate already signed off and Logan was already attached as screenwriter with King as a co-producer.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2025
  • With Ashton directly involved in the creative process and Bong Joon-ho adapting the book himself as the sole screenwriter, expectations are high for this one, which seems to be an expert mix of accessible adventure and black comedy.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Then there are the fabulist reimaginings, like the Coen Brothers classic O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 24 Dec. 2024

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