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Jessica Kiang Film critic, essayist and programmer with bylines in Variety, Sight & Sound, Criterion, Mubi, the New York Times, the LA Times, the Washington Post, Film Comment and Rolling Stone, among other outlets.
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 June 2025
Lewis had always brought an essayist’s sensibility to the art of editing.
—Donovan Hohn
june 13, Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
Theatre, as every essayist turned performer discovers, depends less on elegance of expression than on character, context, and event.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 14 May 2025
The works of African American novelist and essayist John Edgar Wideman were read by WORDTheatre members Gary Dourdan, Chris Chalk and Ronald Guttman at the Players Club.
—Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 June 2025
Lewis had always brought an essayist’s sensibility to the art of editing.
—Donovan Hohn
june 13, Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
Theatre, as every essayist turned performer discovers, depends less on elegance of expression than on character, context, and event.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 14 May 2025
The works of African American novelist and essayist John Edgar Wideman were read by WORDTheatre members Gary Dourdan, Chris Chalk and Ronald Guttman at the Players Club.
—Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025
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The headphones allowed Saenz de Viteri to speak to each audience member directly, as a writer speaks to each reader, and alternate points-of-view from omniscient distance one minute to character interiority the next, like a daring novelist.—
Brian Schaefer
July 7,
Literary Hub,
7 July 2025
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That story is about two men, one an up-and-coming-actor and the other a want-to-be novelist, who fall into a deep brotherhood while sleeping with the same woman.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 July 2025
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Over the ensuing decades, Giard photographed writers working across many genres—playwrights, poets, novelists, theorists, memoirists, critics, even cookbook authors.—
Chris Wiley,
New Yorker,
28 June 2025
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Five years later, playwright and producer Vanessa Lynn filed a lawsuit against TPS, accusing the mogul of idea theft over his TV series The Have and Have Nots.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
27 June 2025
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Conrad Earp, Asteroid City Of the three dramatists on this list, Earp is obviously the most developed.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2025
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Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 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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Star Wars books From the days of the High Republic to the Rise of the First Order, storytellers from across the Star Wars galaxy offer behind-the-scenes stories.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 July 2025
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Hill, the son of Stephen King, is an enthralling storyteller.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
10 July 2025
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The earliest American comedy news dates back to radio in the 1930s and the rise of political satirists like Will Rogers in the 1950s.—
Allison Jiang,
The Hill,
10 June 2025
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One thing that’s been a challenge to satirists in the last 10 years is that reality has become so absurd, with the dumbest possible things happening every day, that there doesn’t always seem to be another level for satire to go to.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
28 May 2025
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Adapted from the novel by Jordan Harper by screenwriters Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, the crime thriller involves a man (Egerton), newly released from prison, attempting to protect his daughter (Heger) from the violent gang who is now after them both.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 July 2025
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Erotic Lives Of The Superheroes (France) written and produced by Eric Dupont, accompanied by screenwriters Nadya Todorova and Ruddy-Williams Kabuiku.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
8 July 2025
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Many of the hustlers and fabulists who populate Crews’s fiction are typical American strivers.—
Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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Playing in the space between social realism and fabulist storytelling, Kezilahabi’s novel asks moral questions about parents’ responsibilities and the effects of women’s liberation, sparing no one but withholding final judgment.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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