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True, Your Honor
Reality has a strange defense.
A true-or-false quiz of bizarre legal rulings. Some happened. Some are invented. You decide.
Open the docketCOMING SOON
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Forthcoming books by Dilettante.
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His writing has been described as “unpublishable but necessary.”
Stories, arguments, and the next good sentence.Explore the writing room.
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Browse all 24 pagesThe earlier pages.
The complete books.
An archive of writing, images, and detours.
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NEW ON THE DESK 01 / 08
PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER · SATIRICAL HORROR
An FBI investigator follows missing women to a professor’s estate. Captivity is disguised as conversion.
Outline V3
FROM THE WRITING ROOM 02 / 08
FICTION · COMIC PREMISE
Left at the altar. Fired from Uber. Shane’s search for a fresh start takes a very strange turn.
Premise & opening beats
FROM THE WRITING ROOM 03 / 08
ESSAY · SHORT BOOK
A plainspoken case against libertarian free will, and an inquiry into consciousness as a “ride-along.”
Arguments & outline
FROM THE WRITING ROOM 04 / 08
SATIRE · MANUSCRIPT
Identity becomes a running joke. Then the joke starts looking back. Read the uploaded satire manuscript.
Manuscript uploaded
FROM THE WRITING ROOM 05 / 08
EARLIER FICTION IDEA
An unnamed narrator, Alice, and a secret obsession. An earlier romance idea with another page still to find.
Scenes & an earlier premise
FROM END OF NOVELTY 06 / 08
END OF NOVELTY · COMPLETE BOOK
Dilettante
A complete 151-page PDF, preserved with its original cover in the End of Novelty archive.
151-page PDF
FROM END OF NOVELTY 07 / 08
END OF NOVELTY · COMPLETE BOOK
Glaucoma
A complete 91-page PDF, preserved with its original cover in the End of Novelty archive.
91-page PDF
FROM END OF NOVELTY 08 / 08
END OF NOVELTY · COMPLETE BOOK
The Early Works
A complete 93-page PDF, preserved with its original cover in the End of Novelty archive.
93-page PDF