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Literary Philosophy and Philosophical Literature
On philosophers who wrote novels and novelists inspired by philosophy
Nov 25
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Lincoln Michel
93
27
18
Short Little Difficult Books
Novels that challenge with style, story, or form that you can read in a day.
Nov 18
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Lincoln Michel
469
76
110
The Counter Craft Halloween Horror Writing Guide
🚨New book announcement! 🚨Plus, unlocking bone-chilling articles from the archives
Oct 31
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Lincoln Michel
71
10
6
The Age of Genre Bending, Blending, and Juxtaposing
Thoughts on the most important literary trend of the last 25 years, and novels that juxtapose different genres side by side.
May 6
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Lincoln Michel
174
29
31
The Strange Shadow of Kafka's Parables and Paradoxes
On fiction that blurs the line between aphorisms, fables, kōans, and jokes.
Apr 29
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Lincoln Michel
71
8
14
What We Write About When We Write About Writers
Novels about writing groups, literary movements, and secret artistic societies
Mar 27
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Lincoln Michel
106
26
10
Novels in Unusual Forms
On excellent novels that upend expectations of form and structure
May 28, 2024
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Lincoln Michel
221
60
31
The Novel as Shaggy Dog Joke
On Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine and novels whose pleasures are in denying our expectations
Feb 1, 2024
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Lincoln Michel
121
24
10
Some Surreal Books from Around the World
A reading list for fans of the dreamlike, nightmarish, and downright bizarre
Sep 26, 2023
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Lincoln Michel
105
30
17
A Literary Fairy Tale Syllabus
Books that meld fairy tales with the Gothic, the surreal, the postmodern, and the sublime
Feb 9, 2023
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Lincoln Michel
63
5
1
Dumb yet Brilliant Books
Your best idea is probably your weirdest, silliest, or most impossible one.
Mar 10, 2021
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Lincoln Michel
18
1
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