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Tribute Fatigue, not Elite Overproduction
The real explanation for why everything is falling apart.
Sep 14
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Michael O. Church
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You Can Do Worse Than Brainfuck
I watched a talk recently in which I heard someone describe Brainfuck as “the worst programming language in the world.” It’s not.
Sep 11
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Michael O. Church
2
August 2025
On the Audra Winter Debacle—Yes, You Can Hire "the" Editor of the Hunger Games and Still Launch a Bad Product
Caveat scriptor
Aug 17
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Michael O. Church
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GPT-5's "Failure" Is Good News for the Arts
GPT-5 was released on August 7 in one of the most amateurish demos I have ever seen, with bad graphs and proofs-of-concept that proved nothing.
Aug 16
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Michael O. Church
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Blues and Reds—Good Writing Advice and Bad Corporate Advice
Or maybe the reverse?
Aug 14
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Michael O. Church
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Men, Women, Money, and Blood Meridian
A tradleft manifesto?
Aug 3
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Michael O. Church
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The Real Reason Literary Men Are Disappearing Has Nothing to Do With Books
As a very mediocre man once said, "It's the economy, stupid."
Aug 1
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Michael O. Church
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July 2025
What My Infamous 200-Agent Study Did and Did Not Prove
In June, to test whether literary agents actually read queries, I conducted a now-infamous signs-of-life study, to my knowledge the largest ever, in…
Jul 26
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Michael O. Church
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AI Threatens Publishing's #1 Rule
AI can, if you know what you’re doing, read literary work for quality, up to a point.
Jul 23
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Michael O. Church
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Traditional Publishing's Problem Isn't Gender—It's That No One Leads
All this other shit? Just distractions.
Jul 20
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Michael O. Church
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Literary Substack Has No Future Unless It Creates One
... and I Wish I Knew How to Do That
Jul 19
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Michael O. Church
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Publishing's Reddit Antics and the Questions Raised
The story became weirder, less silent, and more interesting.
Jul 17
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Michael O. Church
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