Jared Shurin

strategist, book lover, occasional editor

Mar 21, 2026

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9 min read

The to-do list

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

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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.

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Strategy

Oct 21, 2025

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7 min read

BBQ x Everything

Crossing the streams was inevitable.

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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

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Fantasy and Science Fiction

Aug 29, 2025

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11 min read

Publications and Power Plays

Welcome to the midnight leech party

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Jun 26, 2025

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11 min read

Signal Failure

Newsletters, Nick Clegg, bacon and Bradford.

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Mar 28, 2025

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7 min read

Update on Project V

Well, that's awkward.

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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

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Strategy

Mar 14, 2025

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12 min read

Leave it to Toilet

Why is nothing controversial any more?

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Fantasy and Science Fiction

Mar 7, 2025

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8 min read

Humans are weak.

Agent Smith says so.

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Feb 28, 2025

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10 min read

Weaponised Incompetence

Democratic decline and the chainmail bikini

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Strategy

Feb 21, 2025

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20 min read

Lessons of The Kitschies

How to run a tentacular, spectacular literary award

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Feb 14, 2025

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10 min read

WWCD (What Would Cato Do?)

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

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Feb 7, 2025

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8 min read

Hot Grill Summer

Well, that escalated quickly.

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Jan 31, 2025

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11 min read

Winners and losers

Righteousness and perspective

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Jan 24, 2025

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8 min read

Home in your inbox

This is content

Jared Shurin

Jan 17, 2025

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8 min read

Project V

Let's try something new

Jared Shurin

Dec 13, 2024

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17 min read

Snippets

Busting in the weekend

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Fantasy and Science Fiction

Blade Runner and other famously satisfactory endings

Nov 29, 2024

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6 min read

Blade Runner and other famously satisfactory endings

Plus: a Black Friday LIFEHACK

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Strategy

Nov 22, 2024

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10 min read

Double Winstead

Contested spaces and short menus

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Reviews

Oct 22, 2024

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13 min read

Reddit, what is best in life?

Besides a delicious meal at Angus Steakhouse

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Strategy

Sep 20, 2024

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9 min read

Shelfies and the Quiet Internet

Hush, this is a library.

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Reviews

100 More Books from the 21st Century (Part 2)

Aug 23, 2024

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21 min read

100 More Books from the 21st Century (Part 2)

It is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.

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Reviews

100 More Books from the 21st Century (Part 1)

Aug 16, 2024

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21 min read

100 More Books from the 21st Century (Part 1)

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.

Jared Shurin