When Jack first got the house...| www.woman-of-letters.com
Substack summer has begun| www.woman-of-letters.com
Professional writers and passionate amateurs are using the platform to experiment with new forms.| The New Yorker
A review of Daniel Falatko's 2025 novel, and some notes on Substack's self-published author scene.| bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com
Closely allied to the question of taste is the question of genius.| www.woman-of-letters.com
On Daniel Falatko's 'The Wayback Machine'| www.metropolitanreview.org
William T. Vollmann's Battle to Publish an American Epic| www.metropolitanreview.org
Last year I wrote a series of posts about my dissatisfaction with contemporary literary fiction: I wrote about the literary hype-machine, about literary short stories, about Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain and Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, about the lack of moral vision in contemporary novels| www.woman-of-letters.com
on copying, technique and taste ✦ plus 6 close readings of great essay intros| www.personalcanon.com
“Universal love,” said the cactus person. “Transcendent joy,” said the big green bat. “Right,” I said. “I’m absolutely in favor of both those things.…| Slate Star Codex
