The Literary Salon with Thaddeus Thomas | Substack

Lessons on Prose Style, Literary Theory for Fiction and Non-Fiction, and Literary Analysis

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Revolutionize Literature and use Substack to Do It

Jul 19, 2025 • Thaddeus Thomas

The Secret of Literary Style

Dec 19, 2024 • Thaddeus Thomas

The Literary Theory Series: Prose Percussion, Winds, and Strings

Jan 20, 2025 • Thaddeus Thomas

Jan 15, 2025 • Thaddeus Thomas

Recent posts

The Four Rs of Story Meaning

Putting Meat on Beautiful Story Bones

Mar 27 • Thaddeus Thomas

Never Let Roald Dahl Keep You From Understanding How Stories Build Meaning

On writing a story with punch.

Mar 22 • Thaddeus Thomas

Three Lessons that Don't Apply to Writing

Unless you squint really hard.

Mar 6 • Thaddeus Thomas

Day of the Comeback Writer

Breathe deep and find perspective.

Mar 3

Old Truths for a Best Day

A literary apocalyptic; a short story; 1900 words,

Feb 26 • Thaddeus Thomas

Serials

Table of Contents: Warp & Woof

A completed serial: sci-fi.

Feb 19, 2025 • Thaddeus Thomas

Table of Contents: The Last Temptation of Winnie-the-Pooh

A completed serial: The Passion comes to the Hundred Acre Wood

Feb 14, 2025 • Thaddeus Thomas

Table of Contents: Kraken in a Coffee Cup

A completed serial, this story takes chunks of Moby Dick, mixes them up, and blends them with new material.

Aug 24, 2024 • Thaddeus Thomas

Short Stories

Old Truths for a Best Day

A literary apocalyptic; a short story; 1900 words,

Feb 26 • Thaddeus Thomas

Jan 13 • Thaddeus Thomas

The Sphinx and Ernest Hemingway

Apr 22, 2025 • Thaddeus Thomas

Such was the Epiphany of Theodore Beasley

Mar 21, 2025 • Thaddeus Thomas

Ship and Sighting

She calls to me, raising paths of desire like a labyrinth, but he who chases is lost.

Jan 30, 2025 • Thaddeus Thomas

Re:Read

Meet Haley Stone

In which my editing proves a writer's grace and patience.

Sep 12, 2025 • Thaddeus Thomas

Frida Kahlo in Wonderland

From The Diary of Frida Kahlo

Jun 14, 2025 • Thaddeus Thomas

Joy and Resentment in the Public Library

Our reading of All The Pretty Horses

Apr 30, 2025 • Thaddeus Thomas

The Failure of Analyzing Cormac McCarthy

Our reading of All The Pretty Horses

Apr 18, 2025 • Thaddeus Thomas

"The Sisters" by James Joyce

Dubliners--on my first stackiversary.

Apr 17, 2025 • Thaddeus Thomas

Substack Authors

Joshua Lavender, Championed by The Pneumanaut

Champion Series

Jul 17, 2025 • C. J. W. Armstrong and Thaddeus Thomas

A Worldbuilding Expert Speaks of Horror

Real Worldbuilding with Haly

Jul 16, 2025 • Thaddeus Thomas

Tochi Onyebuchi, Championed by Tom Schecter

The Champion Series

Jun 27, 2025 • Tom Schecter and Thaddeus Thomas

Tom Schecter, Championed by Simpulacra

The Champion Series

Jun 13, 2025 • Slater Henatay and Thaddeus Thomas

T. P. Kaaos, Championed by Edward Marlo Ruiz

The Champion Series

Jun 8, 2025 • Edward.Marlo.Ruiz and Thaddeus Thomas

Reviewstack

Short not Sweet: Cherry Soda by Haley Stone

A reading, writing, and editing journey in three parts.

Sep 15, 2025 • Thaddeus Thomas

Reviewstack: Four Book Openings

Norwegian Wood, The Unmapping, Empire's Daughter, and Why Teach?

Jul 1, 2025 • Thaddeus Thomas

Reviewstack: Andy Futuro’s Vaquera

By M. P. Fitzgerald

Jun 23, 2025 • M.P. Fitzgerald and Thaddeus Thomas

Reviewstack: The Cosmonaut by Stefan Baciu

An Open Critique

May 20, 2025 • Thaddeus Thomas

Reviewstack: Cavadonga by Pablo Baez

An Open Critique

Mar 19, 2025 • Thaddeus Thomas

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