A noble (literary) death

The beauty of being the last of a breed

May 16 • ARX-Han

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You will not escape the permanent underclass

Featured in Anthony Marigold's Magazine Non Grata

May 9 • ARX-Han

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/newwave/ book review - Cairo Smith's Scenebux

Appearing in The Metropolitan Review

May 2 • ARX-Han

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April 2026

Slop is a kind of genius: Midwit savants and wildly successful literary mediocrity

literary metastructure, cognitive resonance, and the alphabetical basilisks that are yet to come

Apr 25 • ARX-Han

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Holllow men and hollow women: the problem of Asian-American literary culture

show me your substrate and I'll show you the art

Apr 18 • ARX-Han

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January 2026

Sometimes I wish I had it in me

Poverty, suffering, and fiction-writing as a character-building exercise

Jan 17 • ARX-Han

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An artist's resolution for 2026: To be moved by beauty

A return to sincerity as the new literary meta

Jan 2 • ARX-Han

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December 2025

Is the short novel the optimal length for the indie literary writer?

Thinking about success in the simplest possible terms

Dec 15, 2025 • ARX-Han

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October 2025

The importance of being deranged

An author is a reflection of themselves, staring into the manuscript as if it were a mirror.

Oct 25, 2025 • ARX-Han

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Decentralized Fiction and the inherent tradeoff between censorship-resistance and distribution

Expat Press, New Ritual Press, and the question of inherent tradeoffs for the outsider artist

Oct 12, 2025 • ARX-Han

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More INCEL coverage on the stack

My favorite part about being a novelist is that novels have a long tail

Oct 5, 2025 • ARX-Han

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Facedoxing at my first literary reading in New York City

Back from hiatus!

Oct 4, 2025 • ARX-Han

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