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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.
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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
Tendler can’t square how to both love men and live under patriarchy — something writers, philosophers, and essayists have long been pondering.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
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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
Tendler can’t square how to both love men and live under patriarchy — something writers, philosophers, and essayists have long been pondering.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
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The novelist was catapulted to worldwide fame when her spicy fantasy novel Fourth Wing — the first of five in her Empyrean series — became a bestselling sensation and one of the hottest reads of 2023.—
Maggie Fremont,
EW.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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Each year, Austenites flock to locations all across southwest England, where the novelist spent most of her life.—
Cat Sposato,
AFAR Media,
17 Jan. 2025
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Movies are the great compensatory art, the creative redemption for people who are novelists, poets, musicians, playwrights, painters, photographers, or even philosophers at heart but not in practice—or those who have artistic souls but no preferred art form at all.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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Signing on for privacy Related Articles Saratoga Symphony makes ‘Impressions’ with free concert Pianist/playwright breaks his own box office record at TheatreWorks Milpitas residents started the new year with a new tool to protect their privacy and property rights.—
Anne Gelhaus,
The Mercury News,
12 Jan. 2025
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As a dramatist, Baker has long excelled at conveying complex emotion with something as simple as a pause, and the silences of Janet Planet are just as powerful on the big screen.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
9 Dec. 2024
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But great dramatists recognize that our lives exist largely in gray zones, and that no ideology can contain our contradictory humanity.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Dec. 2024
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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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The filmmaker, who has amassed an impressively diverse resume that spans genres, budgets and blockbusters, made the most of his time in the spotlight by retracing his festival roots and delivering a call to action to all of the storytellers in the room.—
Chris Gardner,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Jan. 2025
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Correspondent Lee Cowan talked with actor Robert Redford, founder of the non-profit Sundance Institute, about the history of the festival, and of the filmmakers' labs that help up-and-coming cinematic storytellers hone their craft.—
David Morgan,
CBS News,
24 Jan. 2025
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Jules Feiffer, the provocative satirist, cartoonist, playwright and 1960s counterculturist who wrote the screenplays for Mike Nichols‘ classic Carnal Knowledge and Robert Altman‘s Popeye, has died.—
Chris Koseluk,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Jan. 2025
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The red carpet show hosted prior to the event on ITV 2 will be presented by DJ Harriet Rose alongside satirist and comedian Munya Chawawa.—
Thomas Smith,
Billboard,
16 Jan. 2025
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Lionsgate announced the biopic in February 2022, at which time the estate already signed off and Logan was already attached as screenwriter with King as a co-producer.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
24 Jan. 2025
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With Ashton directly involved in the creative process and Bong Joon-ho adapting the book himself as the sole screenwriter, expectations are high for this one, which seems to be an expert mix of accessible adventure and black comedy.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
23 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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Then there are the fabulist reimaginings, like the Coen Brothers classic O Brother, Where Art Thou?—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
24 Dec. 2024
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