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Why You Should Read Gene Wolfe (and Where to Start)
On the science fiction author that even literary snobs will love
Jan 8
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Thoughts on Publishing a Novel in 2025
Plus, the Counter Craft Year-End Round-Up
Dec 23, 2025
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Processing: How Brandon Taylor Wrote Minor Black Figures
The author on embodied characters, writing process, and how “a novel should show people fighting and striving against and with and for and alongside…
Dec 20, 2025
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Turning Off the TV in Your Mind
Dec 12, 2024
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No, Most Books Don't Sell Only a Dozen Copies
Sep 4, 2022
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Three Thoughts on the NYT Top 100: Missing Millennials, Fading Autofiction, the Genre-Bending Era
Jul 13, 2024
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What Lasts and (Mostly) Doesn't Last
Aug 21, 2024
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Yes, People Do Buy Books
Apr 25, 2024
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Short Little Difficult Books
Nov 18, 2025
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The Best Books I Read in 2025 (That Weren't Published in 2025)
On Homer, Iris Murdoch, Jun’ichiro Tanizaki, and other authors I loved reading this year.
Dec 12, 2025
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Books as Art Projects
On books you want to hold in your hand or slip in your pocket
Dec 5, 2025
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Literary Philosophy and Philosophical Literature
On philosophers who wrote novels and novelists inspired by philosophy
Nov 25, 2025
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Short Little Difficult Books
Novels that challenge with style, story, or form that you can read in a day.
Nov 18, 2025
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Interview: Fisher the Bookseller Explains How Bookstores Decide Which Books to Sell
The ins and outs of how books are bought and sold in bookstores
Nov 6, 2025
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The Counter Craft Halloween Horror Writing Guide
🚨New book announcement! 🚨Plus, unlocking bone-chilling articles from the archives
Oct 31, 2025
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Processing: How Erin Somers Wrote The Ten Year Affair
The author on comic writing, reading drafts aloud, and being "lower than a worm" while writing
Oct 21, 2025
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Processing: How Dan Chaon Wrote One of Us
The author on historical fiction, writing villains, and the darkness of older children's literature
Oct 16, 2025
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Shirley Jackson and the Eerie Omniscient Narrator
Some thoughts on the horror classic The Haunting of Hill House
Oct 8, 2025
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