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Recent Examples of essayist
Meg Bernhard is a journalist and essayist based in Las Vegas.
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Meg Bernhard, Hazlitt, 4 Jan. 2025
Ladies first? Phoebe Robinson The Everything’s Trash star and essayist finished the marathon in 6:06:52.
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
The great editor and essayist and I shared some similar interests, particularly in history, as well as a distrust of conventional wisdom and an appreciation of the absurd.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
Bob Brody, a consultant and essayist, is author of the memoir Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes of Age.
—Bob Brody, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2025
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Meg Bernhard, Hazlitt, 4 Jan. 2025
Ladies first? Phoebe Robinson The Everything’s Trash star and essayist finished the marathon in 6:06:52.
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
The great editor and essayist and I shared some similar interests, particularly in history, as well as a distrust of conventional wisdom and an appreciation of the absurd.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
Bob Brody, a consultant and essayist, is author of the memoir Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes of Age.
—Bob Brody, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for essayist
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Perhaps most directly influenced by the novelist was Fielding, whose novel Bridget Jones’s Diary is a retelling of Austen’s seminal 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Her social calendar included lunches with the novelist Ray Bradbury and the screenwriter Ivan Moffat, and Dodgers games with the agent Irving Lazar.—
Nathan Taylor Pemberton,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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The acclaimed playwright died Monday following a battle with pneumonia, Finn's literary agent, Ron Gwiazda, confirmed to USA TODAY on Tuesday.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
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Image Set in Brooklyn in the summer of 2022, the action takes place in the apartment of Emmy, a playwright freshly cognizant of the danger of being too broke to afford health insurance.—
Laura Collins-Hughes,
New York Times,
7 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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Ackermann, like Ford, is one of fashion’s dramatists, deftly wielding strong shoulders, sinuous draping, and an audacious use of rich color in both his women’s and men’s work, an approach that garnered him the adoration of the likes of Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet—and, clearly, Mr. Ford.—
Mark Holgate,
Vogue,
6 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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Planes, rockets, and the spaces in between (2018) – at the time, the largest painting executed by Amy Sherald – was some three years in the making after the master painter and storyteller of the contemporary African American experience in the United States stretched the massive canvas.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Still, memory is the theme of several poetic passages of dialogue between Ren and her lover, and, as a professional storyteller, her personal experiences inevitably shape her work.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
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With a style that blends hip-hop culture with the surrealism of satirists like Terry Gilliam and Michel Gondry, this comedy takes no prisoners.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2025
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Since his brief stint with the band Fleet Foxes, Tillman has built out existential concept records that span folk, big-band jazz, soft rock, and indie pop, with a satirist’s eye for the disturbingly absurd.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2025
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Feldman and Green joined Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen and the film’s screenwriter, Chris Columbus, for Ke Huy Quan’s hand and footprint ceremony in front of the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on Feb. 3.—
John Russell,
People.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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Zoe Saunders An aspiring screenwriter and filmmaker, Saunders has been involved in her school’s theatre productions.—
Alexa Dikos,
Baltimore Sun,
4 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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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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