anthologist
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Mr. Hoffman, who cultivated gay authors as an editor and anthologist, was also celebrated as the librettist of composer John Corigliano’s opera “The Ghosts of Versailles.”
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2017
One anthology to look up this fall comes from master anthologist Ellen Datlow, who takes on H.P.
From The Verge ● Sep. 1, 2016
Lummis is an ideal guide for this endeavor — poet, anthologist, long-time L.A. literary booster — although perhaps the most essential aspect of the book is her generosity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2015
It’s easy to bully an anthologist for not including one’s favorites.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2012
This last entry was written in red ink and decorated with a border of green-ink stars; the anthologist wished to emphasize its “personal significance.”
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
In her preface to “Inhabit the Poem,” she writes that the “popular belief that ‘gatekeepers’—publishers, university lecturers, anthologists, and advertisers—create the longevity of the authors we call ‘canonical’ is false.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
The anthologists are another reason for excitement: Ann VanderMeer is one of the best-regarded editors in the field – she’s a former editor-in-chief for Weird Tales who now acquires titles for Tor.com.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2016
As a poet, however, she is virtually forgotten – ignored even – by the 20th century anthologists dedicated to the recovery and re-evaluation of neglected women poets.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2010
The haughty little magazines and the anthologists never knew him, and would have ignored him if they had.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now more than twelve hundred fans, authors, editors, artists, publishers, agents, anthologists, reviewers and readers of science fiction and fantasy registered for the Labor Day Weekend gathering of the clans, a conclave of the slans.
From Out of This World Convention by Ackerman, Forrest J.
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