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
SELECTED WORK / 08 THREADS TO FOLLOW
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
FICTION · ESSAYS · SATIRE · WORKS IN PROGRESS
His writing has been described as “unpublishable but necessary.”
Stories, arguments, and the next good sentence.Explore the writing room.
FROM END OF NOVELTY
Browse all 24 pagesThe earlier pages.
The complete books.
An archive of writing, images, and detours.
END OF NOVELTY / VIDEO
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The video side of End of Novelty.
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DilettanteA story.
An argument.
Another angle.
This room brings the writing together.
Fiction that starts with a life coming apart. Essays that question how choices happen. Different projects, with space to follow each one.
The literary shelf includes conversations about David Markson, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, and J. D. Salinger—writers with very different ways of getting a thought onto the page.
FROM THE EARLIER IDEAS
An unnamed narrator, a secret obsession, and a romance to return to.
IN THE PIPELINE
20 cover designsComing soon.
Books in the pipeline, with their cover designs.
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Forthcoming books by Dilettante.
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