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funny 48 expressive 48 descriptive prose 48 witty acerbic 48 equanimous 48 gifted storyteller 48 irresistibly charming 48 piercingly 48 cobra tweeting 48 Cusk 48 Thought provoking 48 unmannered 48 charming 47 cuttingly 47 towering intellect 47 musicianly 47 captivating 47 thinker 47 affectionate 47 engrossing 47 uncynical 47 lacerating wit 47 wry observational 47 wit 47 poetic 47 beautifully nuanced 47 populariser 47 wickedly funny 47 thoughtful considerate 47 witty self deprecating 47 boiled boilerplate 47 unjaded 47 unflinching candor 47 lyrical prose 47 biting wit 47 astute observer 47 impeccably researched 47 sardonic wit 47 poetic sensibility 47 tactful 47 self dramatizing 47 Vendler 47 poetic prose 47 aphorist 47 intellectually nimble 47 fascinating 47 unadorned prose 47 witty erudite 47 likable 46 searingly 46 describer 46 eminently likable 46 intellectually rigorous 46 boundless imagination 46 utterly beguiling 46 cerebrally 46 irenic 46 wonderfully readable 46 literal minded 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condescends 43 devilish wit 43 gifted raconteur 43 Alfred Kazin 43 guileless 43 David Pittu 43 subversively funny 43 pedantic 43 riveting 43 Candia McWilliam 43 Goldengrove 43 dialogue crackles 43 wittier 43 beautifully wrought 43 charming raconteur 43 conversational prose 43 absorbingly 43 Thoroughly researched 43 Comme une Image 43 Kenneth Tynan 43 vivid 43 communicative 43 curmudgeonly 43 utterly charming 43 funny 43 ruminative 43 resonant 43 unexcitable 43 Susannah Clapp 43 Roiphe 43 subtextual 43 mordantly 43 unflinching gaze 43 tautly constructed 43 Brutally honest 43 inspiringly 43 armchair philosopher 43 solipsistic 43 lucid exposition 43 exquisitely nuanced 43 obituarist 43 dry wit 43 wordsmith 43 splenetic 43 pellucid 43 self mythologising 43 arrestingly 43 Barbara Pym 43 charmingly self deprecating 43 refreshingly straightforward 43 influentially 43 subtle 43 novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne 43 Anthologist 43 Adam Gopnik 43 touchingly vulnerable 43 succint 43 linguistic inventiveness 43 temperamentally 43 nicest kindest 43 politically savvy 43 Orlandersmith 43 enduringly 43 sweet natured 43 allusive 43 spellbinder 43 childlike awe 43 Prodigiously 43 unfailingly 43 witty sarcastic 43 trenchant wit 43 Beinhart 43 caustic wit 43 Hemingwayesque 43 unassuming demeanor 43 Philip Lopate 43 mordantly witty 43 conscientious 43 Gaitskill 43 Widow Story 43 Dostoevskian 43 Heidi Julavits 43 sardonic humor 43 Michael Dirda 43 unworldliness 43 broadminded 43 observantly 43 eloquence 43 Walter Pater 43 wry humor 43 Shaun de Waal 43 Jonathan Yardley 43 self absorbed 43 Andre Gide 43 autobiographer 43 soft spokenness 43 witty raconteur 42 protean 42 Mary Gaitskill 42 Theodore Roszak 42 slightly dotty 42 Anita Silvey 42 immensely likeable 42 willfully obtuse 42 Stanley Meisler 42 wonderfully wry 42 Caryl Phillips 42 Nixon Agonistes 42 epiphanic 42 de Bellaigue 42 Introspective 42 poignantly captures 42 ironist 42 warmhearted 42 articulateness 42 Eloquently 42 lyric poetry 42 minutely observed 42 fogeyish 42 Puckish 42 novelistic 42 sensualist 42 gentle 42 Buruma 42 disarmingly frank 42 Richard Brookhiser 42 wonderfully droll 42 scriptwriter Rafael Azcona 42 acutely attuned 42 unknowability 42 coruscating 42 perfectionistic 42 nonspecialists 42 delphic 42 Calasso 42 Leavis 42 Josipovici 42 untutored 42 uncurious 42 nuanced portrayal 42 disarming directness 42 le Carre 42 Wieseltier 42 genial 42 challengingly 42 Gopnik 42 Adrian Searle 42 Alan Cheuse 42 amiable 42 talkative 42 Eric Hoffer 42 studious 42 mordant wit 42 dialogic 42 doubleness 42 Sybille Bedford 42 mordantly funny 42 heartrendingly 42 Steven D. Greydanus 42 diffident 42 eggheaded 42 digresses 42 unlikable character 42 Acclaimed poet 42 witty lyrics 42 Donald Barthelme 42 Terrence Rafferty 42 Bryggman 42 esthete 42 bracingly 42 Erudite 42 thoroughly engrossing 42 Le Carré 42 wheelchair TAO 42 Herzogian 42 Richard Rorty 42 amusing 42 Elshtain 42 wry asides 42 self reflexive 42 Alexander Woollcott 42 Janet Maslin 42 Ryszard Kapuscinski 42 Antonya Nelson 42 extraverted 42 Constance Congdon 42 Kore eda 42 teacherly 42 touchingly 42 compassionate 42 attentive listener 42 scatty 42 headstrong 42 cleverly constructed 42 instructive 42 discomfiting 42 verbal dexterity 42 instantly likable 42 slyer 42 wickedly satirical 42 quippy 42 irascibility 42 elegaic 42 fastidious 42 vibrantly alive 42 endearing trait 42 intellegent 42 Bernard DeVoto 42 candid 42 enlightened 42 subtly nuanced 42 articulacy 42 Javier Marías 42 persuasively 42 Schooling Giacomo 42 farseeing 42 caustically funny 42 sly humor 42 apercus 42 Kleinzahler 42 comedic undertones 42 convincingly conveys 42 coolheaded 42 Achingly 42 bleakly comic 42 fictionalized memoir 42 demandingly 42 Stephen Spender 42 colleague Marshalette Wise 42 unputdownable 42 clearheaded 42 trenchantly 42 mannered 42 Bright Sided 42 eminently quotable 42 consummate newsman 42 Collected Stories 41 loquacious 41 dazzlingly 41 orotund 41 discerns 41 AE Houseman 41 self deprecatory 41 autobiographical essays 41 Beckettian 41 intellectually deficient 41 explicates 41 cogitations 41 gifted communicator 41 Ursula Le Guin 41 ambivalences 41 visually ravishing 41 omniscient 41 verbose 41 Introverted 41 polemic 41 verbal repartee 41 subtly shaded 41 Whitney Balliett 41 UA Fanthorpe 41 Edmund Gosse 41 disarming honesty 41 Michiko Kakutani 41 bitingly witty 41 Eliot Weinberger 41 biographer 41 extraordinarily gifted 41 innate musicality 41 quotable 41 playful 41 MacNeice 41 SN Behrman 41 mannerly 41 filmable 41 master storyteller 41 digressive 41 defter 41 attuned 41 Harold Nicolson 41 essayistic 41 frank 41 Ari Shavit 41 refreshingly frank 41 unpretentiously 41 disarming candor 41 Don Konkey 41 heartfelt 41 ineloquent 41 wholly believable 41 When Sexes Collide 41 laconic wit 41 quick wittedness 41 JR Ackerley 41 discerning 41 unerring 41 cheery disposition 41 streetsmart 41 Cosmo Landesman 41 caustic 41 humanises 41 darkly comic 41 vivid imagination 41 writes movingly 41 humoristic 41 Dave Kehr 41 compulsively readable 41 Pugnacious 41 introverted 41 hauntingly lovely 41 tactically astute 41 wonderfully inventive 41 unselfconscious 41 pragmatic 41 characterisations 41 devastatingly 41 undemonstrative 41 beautifully modulated 41 omnivorous reader 41 unshowy 41 Batuman 41 expositor 41 extroverted 41 billet doux 41 Empathetic 41 Wystan 41 J. Hoberman 41 cultured despisers 41 Renata Adler 41 innately 41 enigmatic 41 Essayist 41 maladroit 41 Max Beerbohm 41 Keith Uhlich 41 William Hazlitt 41 famously loquacious 41 irrepressibly 41 emotionally resonant 41 Lydia Millet 41 strong willed 41 Zoe Heller 41 squirmingly 41 naturally inquisitive 41 speechmaker 41 poignantly 41 sparkling repartee 41 unflaggingly 41 technically astute 41 Lasdun 41 nonspecialist 41 deliriously funny 41 wistful 41 rigorously researched 41 perseverant 41 sphinxlike 41 immensely likable 41 Personable 41 unsayable 41 De Bellaigue 41 realist 41 Pamela Hartzband 41 Shakespearean verse 41 endlessly watchable 41 Garet Garrett 41 book Outliers 41 Feiffer 41 preternaturally gifted 41 Sean Wilentz 41 snappy repartee 41 sarcastic 41 good humored 41 virtuosic 41 utterly unconvincing 41 emotionally detached 41 Markandaya 41 wittiness Squire 41 lovely chap 41 admonitory 41 Whiggish 41 Margaret Drabble 41 subtleties 41 gimlet eyed 41 wry observation 41 Anatole Broyard 41 skilfully weaves 41 Spallen 41 humor pathos 41 meta theatrical 41 temperamentally unsuited 41 cripplingly shy 41 Alphonse Karr 41 bracingly honest 41 Zoë Heller 41 Cioran 41 Gautam Malkani 41 chatty 41 electrifyingly 41 artful 41 serio comic 41 scathingly 41 judgmental 41 Wineapple 41 Harold Brodkey 41 admirably restrained 41 songful 41 sardonically funny 41 stony hearted 41 Mozartean 41 Lionel Trilling 41 suspenseful tale 41 boundless curiosity 41 reviser 41 disarmingly 41 Braindead Megaphone 41 Annie Dillard 41 lively 41 inimitably 41 Rereading 41 Ashbery 41 Stefan Collini 41 self reflexivity 41 wildly imaginative 40 frankest 40 Acerbic 40 Michael Herr Dispatches 40 rivetingly 40 masterful storyteller 40 Camera Lucida 40 Sittenfeld 40 apt summation 40 wonderfully understated 40 gentlemanly demeanor 40 lyric tenor voice 40 keenest 40 thoroughly unlikable 40 hyperarticulate 40 Lucy Kellaway 40 Iris Murdoch 40 literary allusions 40 Nussimbaum 40 Imperfect Birds 40 introspections 40 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hagiographical 40 Neil Genzlinger 40 elusively 40 Chekhovian 40 Ruth Scurr 40 Pigeon Feathers 40 intertextual 40 fertile imagination 40 shticky 40 Astrov 40 Lavinia Greenlaw 40 instincts 40 philosopher Roger Scruton 40 philosopher Hannah Arendt 40 Carli Whitwell 40 evocative 40 intuits 40 terrifically funny 40 arrestingly beautiful 40 shrewder 40 poetic musings 40 Rabbit Angstrom 40 meticulous craftsman 40 succinctness 40 Lucy Grealy 40 felicitous phrase 40 acerbic wit 40 Eda Holmes 40 harmonic vocabulary 40 sympathetic 40 unstarry 40 farsighted 40 Madame de Staël 40 Outliers Malcolm Gladwell 40 Dispassionate 40 unflinching 40 extroverted personality 40 gorgeously sung 40 cantankerousness 40 Unassuming 40 Pulitzer Prizewinning 40 smartest funniest 40 musically literate 40 Brooding 40 invigoratingly 40 informatively 40 Brawne 40 hothouse flower 40 descriptive passages 40 Declan Kiberd 40 Nigel Farndale 40 Lisa Loomer 40 Tom Nelis 40 Abstinence Teacher 40 eidetic memory 40 praiseful 40 Reckless Moment 40 formidable debater 40 Geoffrey Wheatcroft 40 culturally literate 40 cheerful disposition 40 rhapsodic 40 unforthcoming 40 ingenuous 40 argumentative 40 hysterically funny 40 Tóibín 40 Enobarbus 40 portraitists 40 gentlest 40 achingly sad 40 uncannily accurate 40 unerring knack 40 refreshingly unpretentious 40 Garry Wills 40 Andrew Sarris 40 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre 40 attraction repulsion 40 Juliet Nicolson 40 Night Draws Near 40 Constructive criticism passionate 40 annoyingly smug