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June 2025

What I Want In an Ideal Publisher
What traits make a book publisher an ally of the artist rather than a corporate warden holding you back?
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Blake Butler
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2x (Hotel Invasion, A Desert)
Getting back into posting more personally behind the paywall with a transcript of last night's nightmare and the film before bed that probably posted it
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What is an 'Internet Novel'? 2 (b/w Povel)
Ten notes on Geraldine Kim's 2005 work of hybrid memoir, poetry, and fiction that remains unlike anything you've read
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REALISTIC STORY / UNREALISTIC STORY
"This is a realistic story about terrorism and human suffering and human fear!" b/w "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out…
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What is an 'Internet Novel'? (b/w The Sluts)
Thoughts on what makes an 'internet novel' and why our literary landscape can't seem to see itself, leading into why DC's The Sluts = one of the GOATs
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Birthing
Free writing while not listening to the new Swans album because it has too much language
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Postmodernism Isn't Scary: David Markson's Reader's Block
An hour's lecture on Markson's style and affect as it pertains to boundary-making and bending narrative possibility.
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Blake Butler
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May 2025

The Top 10 Worst Beatles Songs
How did everything get so bad? Maybe because a panty-wetting UK boy band was allowed to become the corporate ideal for all artistic expression to come
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4 Blurbs for 2025
A roundup of some recent blurbs I've written with passing thoughts on blurbs in general
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Maximizing Time for Writing - Part 2: Creating and sustaining motivation
Broad-eyed notes toward thinking about the short steps and modes of thinking that make up a long path into the arts
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Blake Butler
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Maximizing Time for Writing - Part 1
Macro-level thoughts about creating and sustaining a writing practice over time
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Blake Butler
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