A PERI-palooza of other groups with a leg up on stardom: Rock Bottom Remainders: Dave Barry, Stephen King and Amy Tan lead belletrist bar band.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rock 'N' Roll Fantasies] Reference

One of the five he named is philosopher and belletrist Brandon Watson of Siris who, declining to use the delightfully ego-stroking graphic offered to us, has in turned memed me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

Today belles lettres both in French and English, is used rather rarely and the noun “belletrist” and the adjective “belletristic” have assumed a faintly derisive shade of frivolity and incon - sequence.    From Wordnik.com.  [LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES] Reference

Peter Riis, proprietor of The New Companion and a "shameless and hardened belletrist," noticed the recent renaissance of hat-related posts here and sent me a link to a glorious advertisement he had posted a couple of years ago:THE PRICE OF FRIENDSHIP.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: DON'T FORGET PERRING'S HATS.] Reference

Nicholas Taleb is an essayist, belletrist, and researcher.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Thinking about the economy, black swans and becoming a belletrist.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Name is Kate] Reference

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an essayist, belletrist, and researcher.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Financial News] Reference

Thinking about the economy, black swans and becoming a belletrist Boing Boing.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Name is Kate] Reference

However I do like the sound of belletrist more so than essayist or, well, blogger.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Name is Kate] Reference

For example: "NNT is an essayist, belletrist, & researcher only interested in one single topic, chance (particularly extreme & rare events, the" Black Swans "i.e. outliers)".    From Wordnik.com.  [My Name is Kate] Reference

From All Movie Guide: Compelling, controversial, multifaceted belletrist Amiri Baraka endured a series of lifestyle changes and a dramatic intellectual and creative evolution over time, but ultimately came to symbolize the perfect union of personal literary expression and racially-charged political activism.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

William Roscoe as “a mere belletrist” (Masson, XI.    From Wordnik.com.  [LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES] Reference

Nassim Nicholas Talem PhD is an essayist, belletrist, & researcher only interested in one single topic, chance (particularly extreme & rare events, the "Black Swans" ie outliers); but it falls at the intersection of philosophy/epistemology (skepticism; knowledge about the dynamics of history; inferential claims), philosophy/ethics (stoicism facing random events; theories of nonhedonic happiness), mathematical sciences (probability theory, statistical physics), social science/finance (opacity & decision making under incomplete information), and cognitive science (the mental biases making us "fooled" by randomness).    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Poe to the “belletrist.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES] Reference

With this conviction I cannot be a belletrist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epistle Dedicatory] Reference

A writer of belles-lettres is a belletrist.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Name is Kate] Reference

"belletrist".    From Wordnik.com.  [My Name is Kate] Reference