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Recent Examples of novelist
Case in point: Woody Allen’s comic Wild Strawberries riff, in which Allen plays a novelist.
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Katie Rife, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Four Mothers James McArdle stars in uplifting comedy Four Mothers as Edward, a Young Adult novelist and carer of his non-verbal mom Alma (Fionnula Flanagan), who gives him orders via an iPad.
—Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2025
The plutocrats and anarchists of the Gilded Age The novelist who explored the edges of normalcy
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If current trends hold, each generation in Korea will be a third the size of the previous one.
—Hannah Jocelyn, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025
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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Katie Rife, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Four Mothers James McArdle stars in uplifting comedy Four Mothers as Edward, a Young Adult novelist and carer of his non-verbal mom Alma (Fionnula Flanagan), who gives him orders via an iPad.
—Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 25 Feb. 2025
The plutocrats and anarchists of the Gilded Age The novelist who explored the edges of normalcy
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If current trends hold, each generation in Korea will be a third the size of the previous one.
—Hannah Jocelyn, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for novelist
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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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Bridging the Gap Huemer believes the climate conversation needs a new kind of leadership—one that brings together artists, storytellers, engineers, and industrialists.—
Kody Boye,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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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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Lilly Milman is an essayist based in Boston, Massachusetts.—
Lilly Milman,
Vox,
6 Feb. 2025
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This was true for autobiographers and for belletristic authors.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
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Most Black autobiographers never even planned to publish (or thought about publishing) their books commercially.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Dec. 2024
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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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Historians and biographers work around archival gaps to delicately stitch together suppressed histories, but fiction writers can take more creative liberties to reconcile the past.—
Lauren LeBlanc,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2025
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In the decades since, critics and biographers have pushed back on this dim view of Frost.—
Maggie Doherty,
The New Yorker,
24 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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In addition to Othello, several other shows were in previews: Purpose, the new play from Appropriate playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Phylicia Rashad, began previews at the Helen Hayes, taking $300,892 for seven performances, filling 94% of seats.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
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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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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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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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/novelist. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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