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James, written by author and professor Percival Everett and narrated by Dominic Hoffman took home the award for Best Literary Fiction & Classics, while There's Always This Year written and narrated by poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib took home Best Non-Fiction.
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Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025
More than a decade later, there’s still an essayist’s economy in Hunter’s writing.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
Our essayist challenges that notion and encourages us to embrace ennui as a time to rest and rekindle the spirit.
—Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2025
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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Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025
More than a decade later, there’s still an essayist’s economy in Hunter’s writing.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
Our essayist challenges that notion and encourages us to embrace ennui as a time to rest and rekindle the spirit.
—Robert Klose, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for essayist
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The movie, based on the 2016 by the same name, imagines a fictional pope's death and the subsequent election with characters and twists created by novelist Harris.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Apr. 2025
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At the Old Stone House, the three people who showed up to join the venue’s director of education, Maggie Weber, were all female Brooklynites: a political-science student, an attorney turned novelist, and a middle-school teacher.—
Henry Alford,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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Toward the end of our lunch, Henry mentions how one of his favorite playwrights is Tony Kushner.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
22 Apr. 2025
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Some playwrights are as musical with their words as jazz musicians.—
Jeryl Brunner,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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White is simply too gifted a dramatist, and too acute an observer of human foibles, for these concerns to feel forced.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
11 Feb. 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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And that’s the vision these storytellers are modeling.—
Stephanie Long,
Essence,
17 Apr. 2025
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Tribeca Studios has partnered with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Miranda Family Fund to launch Colectivo, a fellowship and filmmaking program created to support the next generation of Latino storytellers.—
Lauren Coates,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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Greg Gutfeld, Fox News’s late-night satirist, scoffed at the idea that Mr. Newsom and Mr. Walz were trying to define masculinity for the Democratic Party.—
Laurel Rosenhall,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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In 2012, Kilmer poured himself into Citizen Twain, a one-man play which saw the actor transformed — in a white suit, wig and shaggy mustache — into America’s greatest satirist, Mark Twain.—
Tom Tapp,
Deadline,
1 Apr. 2025
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But Wright and screenwriter Deborah Moggach rediscovered a youthful vitality that had always been present in the original book, bringing it out in unexpected fashion.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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The irony is that the film’s screenwriter, Sam Stefanak, came from the world of comedy.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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The Irishman — long and boring, based on the self-serving memoirs of a fabulist and a creep — was supposed to be the film of the year.—
Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 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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