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Kerr has imagined any game might be his last with pal Popovich on the opposite bench.

From Washington Times • Apr. 1, 2023

Alderman’s books have expressed a kind of alternative vision to that of Atwood, who has imagined the worst in “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Oryx and Crake” among others.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2022

And yet Field, bringing a 16-year absence from filmmaking to a well-deserved end, has imagined Lydia’s inner and outer worlds with a clarity and rigor that makes 158 minutes fly by like a dream.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2022

Her name is Lydia Tár, and in the world Field has imagined — one that exists at an oblique angle to our own — it’s a household name.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022

It is not that he has imagined so large an army of characters, it is that he manages to give them such freedom, such an obvious latitude of movement in the open world.

From The Craft of Fiction by Lubbock, Percy