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Brandon Taylor

Novelist and critic whose Sweater Weather Substack publishes long, essayistic posts on contemporary fiction, craft, and reading.

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updates (plus a story)

new story and UK publication of minor black figures

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american symbolism

an insane year (already)

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writing with your eyeballs

cuskian realism

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get good

my training arc at the tennis camp

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why i played tennis on book tour

book tour tennis journal + writing hack

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LAX > SFO

tour diary 2

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are you excited

plus: ideology in fiction, o'connor vs flaubert

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tour updates!

going on tour, where's my bag

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how i be revising

plus muscle man!

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unfortunately novak djokovic fixed my serve

i went to the us open and it made me better at tennis, booo

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two requests

they are for good things

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i make my students spoil their novels

feedback strategies, or how i run my workshops

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summer writing

missives from the youngly middle-aged

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amateur hour

research for amateurs

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savonarola was right about florence

what i've been up to lately

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On Glass Century

The Contemporary Historical Novel

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Goku vs Jesus: ideology in fiction

Ideology is good, actually

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Story Basics #3: Scenes

where all the stuff happens

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minor black figures

my next novel

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Story Basics #2: Situation

why your story shouldn't be arbitrary

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