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Recent Examples of essayist
The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor recognizes individuals who have had an impact on American society in ways similar to novelist and essayist Samuel Clemens, colloquially known as Mark Twain.
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Paul Grein, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2025
Previous Picks Aflame by Pico Iyer (Riverhead) Nonfiction For more than three decades, Iyer, an essayist and a novelist, has spent several weeks a year at a silent retreat in a monastery in Big Sur, California.
—The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2025
The courtly Time-magazine essayist who described the American Century with wit, outrage, and wry wisdom
By Roger Rosenblatt
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—airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024
Mann was aiming at his brother Heinrich, a novelist and an essayist of nearly equal renown, whose liberal politics led him to support Germany’s enemies, France and Britain.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Paul Grein, Billboard, 16 Jan. 2025
Previous Picks Aflame by Pico Iyer (Riverhead) Nonfiction For more than three decades, Iyer, an essayist and a novelist, has spent several weeks a year at a silent retreat in a monastery in Big Sur, California.
—The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2025
The courtly Time-magazine essayist who described the American Century with wit, outrage, and wry wisdom
By Roger Rosenblatt
Read On
The Seasoned Traveler
Enrique Olvera The Mexican chef behind Cosme and Pujol reveals his travel routine
Read On
Going Anywhere Soon?
—airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024
Mann was aiming at his brother Heinrich, a novelist and an essayist of nearly equal renown, whose liberal politics led him to support Germany’s enemies, France and Britain.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for essayist
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Hadi Matar was found guilty on Friday of attempting to murder the novelist Salman Rushdie in an onstage stabbing attack at a New York arts institute in 2022.—
Aleksandra H. Michalska and Jonathan Allen,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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The attack left the 77-year-old prize-winning novelist blind in one eye.—
Carolyn Thompson,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Wilde was outraged by the Lord Chamberlain’s denial of his and other English playwrights’ right to free creative expression.—
E.R. Zarevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Mar. 2025
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There are references to a 16th-century Venetian playwright, an old American folk song, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.—
Simon Vozick-Levinson,
Rolling Stone,
4 Mar. 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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Anna Fiorentino is a storyteller focused on outdoors, adventure, and travel.—
Anna Fiorentino,
AFAR Media,
28 Feb. 2025
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Like many of the comics on this list, Slay is a great storyteller, able to both keep the narrative engaging and make jokes about himself and the very act of telling.—
Will DiGravio,
TIME,
21 Feb. 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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Jules Feiffer, a cartoonist, author, playwright, and political satirist who documented and defined a particular strain of 20th century Jewish-American experience in a career that extended over nine decades since the 1940s, died today at his home in upstate New York.—
Rob Salkowitz,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Each year, several largely unacquainted, disparate-minded luminaries from across the film world—directors, screenwriters, actors, and, on occasion, critics—are brought together to manufacture the illusion of consensus.—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
27 Feb. 2025
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House of Talkies is connected to Jain’s The Story Ink, which specializes in book-to-screen adaptations, represents over 500 stories, 200 authors, and 100 screenwriters.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
27 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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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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