Category: Criticism
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nothing proves this essential paralysis more clearly
I work actively to abolish substantive regrets, but one in particular gets no easier to suppress as the years pass: I wish that, during the years when I there was time to spare for reading and writing, I had read more widely and written more freely.
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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.