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Central Florida — a place where Arnett’s writerly claim is now as firm as Flannery O’Connor’s was to rural Georgia — is increasingly unlivable: expensive housing, low-paying jobs, unchecked gentrification.
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Sam Worley, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
Eighty years ago, the Jewish American novelist Laura Z. Hobson was contemplating her next writerly move and was seeking a little help from her friends.
—Rachel Gordan, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2025
Of the new cast additions, only Ayoade is doing anything funny, but Xeni’s pretentious banter could have used a writerly punch-up from somebody like Richard Ayoade.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
His cheerful admission of this writerly tactic presages not only the friendly tone of the entire book but also one of its shortcomings.
—Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
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Sam Worley, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
Eighty years ago, the Jewish American novelist Laura Z. Hobson was contemplating her next writerly move and was seeking a little help from her friends.
—Rachel Gordan, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2025
Of the new cast additions, only Ayoade is doing anything funny, but Xeni’s pretentious banter could have used a writerly punch-up from somebody like Richard Ayoade.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
His cheerful admission of this writerly tactic presages not only the friendly tone of the entire book but also one of its shortcomings.
—Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
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“Writerly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/writerly. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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