Where are we going?
Everything written for this site can be read in any order.
Read any article at random.
It’ll lead somewhere.
If it makes sense, keep going.
If it almost makes sense, keep going.
If it doesn’t make sense at all, you’re exactly where you should be.
Keep going.
Or…If you want things to make sense quicker…
Things make a lot more sense when you start reading those first.
If you’re not sure why any of this matters, start here.
Or start here. This is closer to what it feels like.
If you’re wondering what this is, this is where it starts.
If you want to get somewhere in a hurry…
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Read Everything
For those that don’t need categories: All essays, stories and ideas — in one place.
More Fun with Franzen and Oprah: False perceptions of the Perceived Reader
With a lack of evidence of real readers to draw on, all we are left with is assumptions of who we perceive a reader to be. This is where I coined the phrase, "Perceived reader."
Fun with Franzen
There was and maybe still is a marketing and publishing blindness to the idea that you could start publishing novels that will appeal to male readers. Where’s our new Fight Club? Or Catcher in the Rye? Or Catch-22? In the world I see you’re reading these books, perhaps in a carpool lane of some abandoned superhighways, regardless of your gender.
Project Dudes Don’t Do Fiction An Introduction
We don’t define books by what they are.
We define them by who we think will read them.
And that’s the problem