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Touching Snow
There is nothing more clarifying—and more terrifying—than a health scare.
Dec 21
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Tom Beck
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Fiction in the Age of the Phone
Why no one reads fiction on their phone and what fiction writers can do about it
Dec 4
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Tom Beck
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Melville and His MFA by Sea
On the stepping stones to greatness (and why they look like failure)
Nov 22
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Tom Beck
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Why You Should Not Set Goals
Instead of focusing on objectives, search for what's interesting
Nov 13
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Tom Beck
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The Daemon in the Machine
On writing platforms, genius, egregores, and AI
Nov 6
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Tom Beck
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Enter the Dollhouse—The Stories of Thomas Ligotti
Puppets and manikins; the horror of unliving objects; the infinite, inhuman cosmos; artificial intelligence; the uncanny valley; Ligotti, Lovecraft, and…
May 22, 2024
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Tom Beck
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Against the Creator Economy
A Manifesto for Failure
Mar 9, 2024
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Tom Beck
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