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As Beth, Louis-Dreyfus is filled with surface confidence and performs her writerly role with ease—until the smallest crack appears and her sense of self begins to quietly unravel.
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Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Manuel took in this contrast with one writerly glance as the two of them chatted eagerly, catching up, not having seen each other for quite some time, with a lot of water under the bridge for them both.
—Suzanne Jill Levine
june 30, Literary Hub, 30 June 2025
Other parts of the world where politics got in the way of writerly unity—for instance, every nation colonised by Europe—was of much less interest.
—Kamila Shamsie
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Exuberance and dreaminess, writerly sophistication and technical ambition, drugs and madness: Wilson’s exquisite craft captured all of it, with his band the Beach Boys leaving behind a singularly inventive and exultant body of work, one that scripted and embodied California to the world.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
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Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Manuel took in this contrast with one writerly glance as the two of them chatted eagerly, catching up, not having seen each other for quite some time, with a lot of water under the bridge for them both.
—Suzanne Jill Levine
june 30, Literary Hub, 30 June 2025
Other parts of the world where politics got in the way of writerly unity—for instance, every nation colonised by Europe—was of much less interest.
—Kamila Shamsie
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Exuberance and dreaminess, writerly sophistication and technical ambition, drugs and madness: Wilson’s exquisite craft captured all of it, with his band the Beach Boys leaving behind a singularly inventive and exultant body of work, one that scripted and embodied California to the world.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
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“Writerly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/writerly. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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