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

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Magical Realism and Fabulism

Mar 8 • Thaddeus Thomas

The Secret of Literary Style

Dec 19, 2024 • Thaddeus Thomas

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

Jan 20 • Thaddeus Thomas

The Origin of Originality

Jan 27 • Thaddeus Thomas

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Literary Salon #7

A Substack Week-in-Review

Jul 2 •

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Literary Salon #6

A Substack Week-in-Review

Jun 25 •

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Literary Salon #5

A Magazine for Readers and Writers

Jun 18 •

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Literary Salon #4

A Magazine for Readers and Writers

Jun 11 •

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Literary Salon #3

A Magazine for Readers and Writers

Jun 4 •

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Short Stories

The Sphinx and Ernest Hemingway

Apr 22 •

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Such was the Epiphany of Theodore Beasley

Mar 21 •

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Ship and Sighting

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

Jan 30 •

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Daddy's Will: A rewrite

With little running steps in Robert’s shadow, Becky de Jong struggled to match her fiance’s pace. Her feet went tap, tap, tap at the sidewalk, like…

Jan 12 •

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Sometimes, even an android’s back is turned, and among the dead there lies a child, half devoured.

Aug 27, 2024 •

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Re:Read

Frida Kahlo in Wonderland

From The Diary of Frida Kahlo

Jun 14 •

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Joy and Resentment in the Public Library

Our reading of All The Pretty Horses

Apr 30 •

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The Failure of Analyzing Cormac McCarthy

Our reading of All The Pretty Horses

Apr 18 •

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"The Sisters" by James Joyce

Dubliners--on my first stackiversary.

Apr 17 •

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The Failure of Cormac McCarthy

Our reading of All The Pretty Horses

Mar 20 •

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Substack Authors

Tochi Onyebuchi, Championed by Tom Schecter

The Champion Series

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Tom Schecter, Championed by Simpulacra

The Champion Series

Jun 13 •

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T. P. Kaaos, Championed by Edward Marlo Ruiz

The Champion Series

Jun 8 •

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Zachary Dillon, Championed by Amanda Coreishy

The Champion Series

May 30 •

Amanda Coreishy

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Pablo Báez, Championed by Dylan Bosworth

The Champion Series

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Serials

Recent posts

Literary Salon #7

A Substack Week-in-Review

Jul 2 •

Thaddeus Thomas

Reviewstack: Four Book Openings

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

Jul 1 •

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Literary Salon #6

A Substack Week-in-Review

Jun 25 •

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Reviewstack: Andy Futuro’s Vaquera

By M. P. Fitzgerald

Jun 23 •

M.P. Fitzgerald

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The Maverick: Music as Metaphor

On the art of being heard for being different

Jun 19 •

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