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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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“Essayist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/essayist. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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essayist
noun
es·say·ist
ˈes-ˌā-əst 
: a writer of essays
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