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Style Is More than Sentences
In defense of style and the infinite possibilities of storytelling
 • Lincoln Michel
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Processing: How Mads Gobbo and Miles Klee Wrote Double Black Diamond
The authors on literary collaboration, small press publishing, hooking readers with unusual sentences, and the need to “speak other futures into…
 • Lincoln Michel
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The Grand Ballroom Theory of Literature
On literature as an unending conversation, genres as dialogues, and writing as adding your voice to the chat
 • Lincoln Michel
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Why You Should Still Build Your Raft of Art in the Sea of Slop
A little cri du coeur about working on your work and avoiding all the noise
 • Lincoln Michel
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Processing: Why Benjamin Percy Is Writing a Novel as a Newspaper with Stephen King
The author on writing across mediums, the appeal of physical objects, and working with the legendary Stephen King
 • Lincoln Michel
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Processing: How Mattie Lubchansky Wrote and Illustrated Simplicity
The author and illustrator on utopian fiction, science fiction satire, and "skepticism for how things are done and how things can be different"
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Why Boredom Is Good (for Writers)
And a little bit more on Substack and the state of books
 • Lincoln Michel
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Brooks, Books, and the Imagined Realties of Publishing
One last post on "decline of literature" discourse...
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