essayist

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The author is a Los Angeles–based novelist and essayist.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

What the French essayist offers us “shall smack of the earth and of real life, sweet, or smart, or stinging.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Critics, including a guest essayist for the New York Times, have called his Oval Office remodel a "Gilded Rococo Nightmare".

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

Felsenthal is a fiction writer, poet, critic and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, the Atlantic and other publications.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

“Are you really? Well, you know what they say—God will not look you over for medals or diplomas, but for scars. That’s Elbert Hubbard, an American essayist, if you’re interested.”

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx