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The Publishing Industry Hates Conservatives
No, It’s Not About Writing Quality
Sep 15
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My Heart Still Belongs to Holden Caulfield
What Rereading The Catcher in the Rye in My Late 20s Taught Me About Nostalgia, Authenticity, and Growing Up
Sep 10
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The Forgotten Value of a Literary Education
Why English departments have lost their way—and how rediscovering Arnold, Trilling, and Frye can save them.
Sep 8
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Joshua Fagan
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Your Kink Isn't Art
Why serious literature demands beauty rather than degradation
Sep 1
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August 2025
Carnival
Coney Island | March 2024
Aug 29
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The Case for Writing Love Poems
How I Learned to Stop Pleasing Academia and Write the Poems That Actually Matter
Aug 25
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The Great Works of Literature Would Not Be Published Today
Arbitrary Submission Rules Are Killing Literature
Aug 18
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Masha Gessen’s Gross Betrayal of the Russian-Jewish Legacy
The Russian-Jewish Convictions That Survived the USSR—and Why Some Are Forgetting Them
Aug 7
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Tertius Lydgate and the Birth of the Modern Doctor
How George Eliot’s Middlemarch Bridged Victorian Medicine and Scientific Modernity
Aug 4
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Illicit Kingdom
Chicago | January 2024
Aug 1
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July 2025
Literature & Zionism | Ted Goldstein
The Pens and Poison Podcast EP 10
Jul 31
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No, Cartman, Wokeness Isn’t Dead
Rainbow capitalism may have vanished, but the ideology is stronger than ever.
Jul 28
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