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April 2025

Who's the winner: Hawthorne or the transcendentalists?
Hawthorne is the 19th-century American writer that I like the most.
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Naomi Kanakia
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An interview with one of the most generous critics on Substack
It’s been such a privilege getting to know John Pistelli over the last year.
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Naomi Kanakia
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Genius isn't rare
Closely allied to the question of taste is the question of genius.
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The average man can speak for himself
Darren had tried for the last several years to write a novel about an average dude.
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Naomi Kanakia
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Taste doesn't matter
In the last year, two articles about taste have circulated widely in my corner Substack.
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Have you heard of this book that sucks? It's called The Great Gatsby
I was also at Gatsby's big parties.
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Naomi Kanakia
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A writer's career can be rooted in real power or in fake power. Real power is better.
A few weeks ago, Compact published an article—“The Vanishing White Male Writer”—about how there’s no white men writing literary fiction anymore.
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On Mars, everyone truly finds their level
Growing up, my hero was Gaal Kodell, the space-man.
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One guy who proves that literary genius and 'pleasing the market' are not mutually exclusive
When I first started publishing short stories, back in 2010, I was newly out of college, and my vision of the world was very much structured by…
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