Jared Shurin

strategist, book lover, occasional editor

Oct 12, 2026

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5 min read

An Old Friend

Upcoming event, an unexpected discovery, recent reads

Jared Shurin

Sep 26, 2026

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6 min read

Contentment and Annoyance

From the London Library to rural Devon (by way of Twitter)

Jared Shurin

Reviews

Aug 27, 2026

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6 min read

Start of Term

Dark Academia lunch day, sticky stories, Silence, bananas

Jared Shurin

Dark Academia

Aug 24, 2026

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3 min read

The Elements of Dark Academia

Table of Contents and other details

Jared Shurin

Horror

Aug 21, 2026

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5 min read

Darkness falls (imminently)

Next week's release, reading challenges, tradwife horror, Parsec

Jared Shurin

Aug 7, 2026

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6 min read

The wolves deserve a better meal

Bullying, Silicon Valley weirdos, reading challenges and BBQ extremism

Jared Shurin

Further Corruption

Jul 17, 2026

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6 min read

Summer break

Plus, new Dark Academia events - and the (extremely brief) mystery of A. Syeram!

Jared Shurin

Further Corruption

Jul 7, 2026

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4 min read

Tenebrae

A saga of art, rock and mediocre poetry

Jared Shurin

Further Corruption

Jun 25, 2026

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7 min read

Here comes Bradford!

Stadiums, BBQ, Further Further Corruption

Jared Shurin

Further Corruption

Jun 12, 2026

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8 min read

Further Corruption

Sometimes the answers find you

Jared Shurin

Dark Academia

Apr 17, 2026

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6 min read

Why dark academia?

Why this genre? Why now? Plus: A FREAKIN' SHARK

Jared Shurin

Dark Academia

Apr 3, 2026

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8 min read

The Elements of Dark Academia

ACAD EMIA IS ANNO UNCED!

Jared Shurin

Mar 21, 2026

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9 min read

The to-do list

Pitch / rejected / pitch / delivered / pitch / ghosted / pitch / ...

Jared Shurin

Reviews

Dec 5, 2025

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26 min read

2025 Recommended Reading List

Forty books to spice up your holiday season. Also, pickles!

Jared Shurin

Nov 28, 2025

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11 min read

What Good Is

Kansas City BBQ, obviously.

Jared Shurin

Strategy

Oct 21, 2025

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7 min read

BBQ x Everything

Crossing the streams was inevitable.

Jared Shurin

Sep 12, 2025

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12 min read

End of the end of an era

A moderately fond farewell from the last Typepad user

Jared Shurin

Fantasy and Science Fiction

Aug 29, 2025

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11 min read

Publications and Power Plays

Welcome to the midnight leech party

Jared Shurin

Jun 26, 2025

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11 min read

Signal Failure

Newsletters, Nick Clegg, bacon and Bradford.

Jared Shurin

Mar 28, 2025

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7 min read

Update on Project V

Well, that's awkward.

Jared Shurin

Strategy

'Nowhere to go but further in' by Paul Graham Raven

Mar 22, 2025

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10 min read

'Nowhere to go but further in' by Paul Graham Raven

A hypothesis of fandom intensity

Jared Shurin

Strategy

Mar 14, 2025

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12 min read

Leave it to Toilet

Why is nothing controversial any more?

Jared Shurin

Fantasy and Science Fiction

Mar 7, 2025

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8 min read

Humans are weak.

Agent Smith says so.

Jared Shurin

Feb 28, 2025

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10 min read

Weaponised Incompetence

Democratic decline and the chainmail bikini

Jared Shurin

Strategy

Feb 21, 2025

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20 min read

Lessons of The Kitschies

How to run a tentacular, spectacular literary award

Jared Shurin