how to expand the market for literature (and literary criticism)
the personal and social function of criticism ✦ and why the humanities are not dead, thank you very much| www.personalcanon.com
the personal and social function of criticism ✦ and why the humanities are not dead, thank you very much| www.personalcanon.com
short fiction and photography inspired by 1970s conceptual art ✦ and how to get started with flash fiction!| www.personalcanon.com
the (almost) definitive ranking of Ernaux's books ✦ everything I read in March, April, and May 2025| www.personalcanon.com
on poptimism and literary snobs ✦ and why taste is cultivated through love, not education| www.personalcanon.com
3 novels and 2 films on love, despair, and loss ✦ and how to read Hannah Arendt for the first time| www.personalcanon.com
on copying, technique and taste ✦ plus 6 close readings of great essay intros| www.personalcanon.com
including novels, nonfiction, short stories and essays ✦✧| www.personalcanon.com
one year, 34 posts, and 8,000 subscribers later ✦✧| www.personalcanon.com
a bad reading month and a good film-watching month ✦ feat. anime classics, Vietnamese & Iranian slow cinema, and Sean Baker's Anora| www.personalcanon.com
on delusional fantasies and self-respect ✦ feat. Elsa Morante, Didion, Flaubert and Tolstoy| www.personalcanon.com
the case for reading Flaubert, going to raves, emailing your crush, and losing control| www.personalcanon.com
perfection is impossible, but I'm chasing it anyway ✦ plus Flaubert, Proust, and that one Ira Glass quote| www.personalcanon.com
design power couples and the art of living| www.personalcanon.com
not anti-AI, not pro-AI, but a secret third thing ✦ and 13 propositions for AI as an aleatory art| www.personalcanon.com
fake news in fiction ✦ and how novels let us transcend our epistemological limitations| www.personalcanon.com
13 books about art, psychology, gender, and gradient descent ✦ and 3 films about women's labor, family, and love| www.personalcanon.com
welcome to the Virginia Woolf–Anne Carson–Merve Emre fan club| www.personalcanon.com
my favorite form of entertainment is downloading PDFs ✦ plus favorite Fluxus artists and early programs| www.personalcanon.com
every writer begins as a poseur ✦ on Kafka, Proust, philosophy, and trying very hard| www.personalcanon.com
how I use Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies in writing and designing ✦ Žižek's notetaking advice| www.personalcanon.com
I read 94 books this year and now I'm cruelly picking my favorite (novels, nonfiction, autofiction)| www.personalcanon.com
how to write about conspiracy theories ✦ and the process of revising an essay| www.personalcanon.com
