quite useless

Fine Japanese graph paper

& other quotidian accoutrements for high literary life

Nov 25 • 

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(Pre)order it MEDIUM RARE

the copy, the cover, the first page, all the links

Nov 2 • 

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October 2025

You’ve got mail

some notes on epistolary novels

Oct 14 • 

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September 2025

“Take your choice!”

connecting a few novel threads

Sep 14 • 

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August 2025

The 2025-26 ANJ syllabus

"Whip out your dictionary and hang on tight"

Aug 28 • 

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How to read like a novelist

*reread

Aug 21 • 

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July 2025

Materialists' math doesn’t math

you asked, I’m answering

Jul 26 • 

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Literary author or publicly traded company?

on the quarterly returnification of textual art

Jul 3 • 

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June 2025

People would rather have prestige than babies

it’s not Netflix, it's positional status strategy

Jun 3 • 

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May 2025

The best fake novels not coming out this year

a response to market demand

May 23 • 

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The Austen Math cumulative report

a grande finale chart extravaganza

May 20 • 

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MEDIUM RARE: A Novel

coming March 2026 from Melville House

May 7 • 

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