Word: essayist
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Phillips' interest in California is pervades other areas of her life as well. Her doctoral dissertation is about Helen Hunt Jackson, a nineteenth-century Californian poet, essayist, novelist and reformer. Jackson was one of the first to portray the bleaker side of life in California...
...TRUE THAT "DEMONBOY" IS AS young as essayist Ehrenreich seems to believe, is it ethical to print his screen name in a national magazine? LINDA ANGELOFF SAPIENZA, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania...
...Night Music and Follies were soon to come. This revival provides a useful vantage for surveying the second half of a venturesome, glittering career. Among those American artists today whose livelihood is linked to words and wordplay, Sondheim holds a unique preeminence. There's no contemporary novelist, poet or essayist who is so indisputably at the top of his or her field as Sondheim is of his. As a song lyricist, he has no plausible peer...
...MEMOIR CAN BE A DANGEROUS literary form, especially when it is the work of a gifted writer embarked on a voyage to discover some elusive personal truth. In Heart: A Memoir (Warner Books; 323 pages; $22.95), Lance Morrow, a writer and essayist for TIME since 1965, does not shrink from the realization that the surest path toward self-discovery is self-disclosure. In an effort to heal body and spirit following a second coronary-bypass operation at the relatively young age of 52, he was determined to seek out the sources of the internalized anger that had twice threatened...
Vidal is a first-rate essayist, one of America's finest, though a rather more pedestrian novelist and playwright. His memoir lacks the sharp, confident voice of his essays, while the characters, like those in his novels and plays, often come across as wooden and two dimensional. He complains over and over to the reader of his frayed memory, his disinclination to look backward, his lack of a diary (he relies altogether too much on other people's memoirs instead). As a result, Palimpsest has a kind of haphazard feel, with the present frequently intruding upon the past...