Category: Criticism
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true imagination: Indignity by Lea Ypi
Sometimes the idea of a book far outshines the book itself.
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the real reason you’re not selling out in 2026
… if you’re not paying to play, you’re likely not playing at all—unless you’re playing on the platforms, in which case you’re still paying, only with something far closer to your soul than the record labels of old ever asked for.
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building up against the left wall
Some notes on an interview with hyperproductive sff author Adrian Tchaikovsky on his writing practice, with plenty of good stuff about worldbuilding.
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The Good Soldier
Some thoughts on the novel by Ford Madox Ford.
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whatever circuits of vanity underlie the original impulse
I’d been planning to stop doing criticism, but it was essentially a triage decision: drop the writing that seems to be achieving the least, you know.