The Essay Desk
Charles Dodd WhiteEssays about Literature, Philosophy, Nature, and Culture.
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Promotion and the Idea of the Book
I’m going to try something a little different this week, which involves self-promoting my next novel, The World Itself, published next June by Regal House. But because this is Substack, I wanted to do it with something of a twist, and if it...
How Writers Learn
Earlier this week, The New York Times published a guest essay by the Canadian professor Matt Dinan. In it he detailed his experience in teaching The Brothers Karamazov despite never having read it himself. It’s a thoughtful and earnest piec...
What is Literary Citizenship?
A few weeks ago, there was a fair amount of engagement farming about the idea of literary citizenship making the Substack rounds. Much of it was critical of the idea, falsely claiming that it meant “playing nice” with other writers and gene...
Jonathan Miles and the New Prestige of the Short Novel
Brevity is having a moment in the book world. The critic Ron Charles noted in a Substack post last week that 6 of the 13 novels that appear on this year’s Booker Longlist are under 250 pages. One of my favorites from last year’s Booker Long...
Evan S. Connell
This week I’m up teaching a nonfiction workshop at the Hindman Settlement School, which is always a blast, but it has resulted in a serious shortage of writing time. So instead of a fresh post this week, I want to boost a link to an essay I...
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Award-winning novelist and naturalist in east Tennessee. Marine veteran. Next novel, THE WORLD ITSELF, forthcoming in 2027 from Regal House.
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