Tag: internet

  • Writers and thinkers I most respect

    On a run this morning, while listening to Dwarkesh interview Tyler Cowen, I came up with what I think is my modern canon of writers and thinkers whose work I most consume. Here it is: Hopefully I’ll add more, but the list being short gives me lots to take in from a few Good People…

  • Is now the best time to write a novel?

    From this post, “The Cultural Decline of Literary Fiction.” I think the most important conclusion is that all of this is actually good news for aspiring writers: it’s not that the philistine dopamine-addled masses will never be capable of giving you the praise you deserve, it’s just that (1) basically no one is writing literary…