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[rahy-ter] / ˈraɪ tər /


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Mr. Masko is an orchestra conductor and writer in New Hampshire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The publisher of Haitian-Canadian writer Thelyson Orelien said on Wednesday it would keep his novel "It was Either That or Die" in bookstores, after the author denied he had used AI to write the book.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

So my message to your letter writer is to be careful about turning a lesson in spending too much into a judgment of people who haven’t hit the same milestones.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Former Times staff writer Alejandra Reyes-Velarde contributed to this report.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

One writer marveled at Osage girls who attended the best boarding schools and wore sumptuous French clothing, as if “une très jolie demoiselle of the Paris boulevards had inadvertently strayed into this little reservation town.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Times staff writers David Zahniser and James Queally contributed to this report.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

“The Storytellers” considers these writers and others of the 19th century with large helpings of narrative summary but always with insight and intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Kings said there was concern in the writers room about “Cupertino” being too much of a straight-ahead law show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

"That's a clumsy thing to say in an industry where he's got writers and artists and it specifically affects people, they're the first to take the blow," Davies told BBC Radio 4's The Media Show.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

He had read somewhere that, for true writers, nothing was more important than their art, not even love.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


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