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How to review books for the New York Times
It's the most powerful ideology of the last two hundred years, but it will fail eventually.
This working-class writer has turned into a symbol of elitism
Highbrow literature has acquired a fandom. To succeed, writers need to manage it.
Somebody will have to pay for this
Even studio executives have ambition. We should be thankful for it.
The Samuel Richardson Prize For Best Self-Published Literary Novel (or Story Collection)
The college students who can't read good anymore
All of my literary success is due to reading this one classic text
How to live well on a $100,000 advance
The New Yorker reviewed my self-published novella
Women's fiction still gets ignored
Prestige is what separates writing from content
An interview with one of the most influential writers in this corner of the internet
The trauma plot has lost faith in itself
Who's the winner: Hawthorne or the transcendentalists?
An interview with one of the most generous critics on Substack
The average man can speak for himself
Have you heard of this book that sucks? It's called The Great Gatsby
A writer's career can be rooted in real power or in fake power. Real power is better.
On Mars, everyone truly finds their level
One guy who proves that literary genius and 'pleasing the market' are not mutually exclusive
Can fiction writers repress their knowledge of "the current political situation"?
Now that I'm a Hindu, I probably have to post about the caste system.
I've learned to respect my comments section
Literary short stories don't perform well online. There's a reason for that.
The most overrated writer in America
Uncle Tom's Cabin is the Great American Novel
Most commercial fiction relies on the reader's belief in the spiritual power of goodness
I am fond of sentimental literature
Making a literary career during Trump's second term
Moby-Dick is a novel that is mostly about whales
Rob Vlock is driving new readers to an often-overlooked Melville title
Social class in American literature
Afro-pessimism produced at least one good novel
The best way to improve your writing is to share it online
Updates to "Which publisher has the best line of classics reprints?"
English class teaches students to be afraid of literature
Is literary criticism just a school of sophistry?
James Fenimore Cooper is a more honest writer than Mark Twain
The Mahabharata has reached whole new levels of inaccessibility
Which publisher has the best classics line?
Is it possible for a novel to have a good story, but a bad style?