Converse with

The Literary Agent Simulacrum

Manuscript Assessment · Pitch · Submission · Rights · Career

Composite

Converse with

The Editor Simulacrum

Structural Editing · Line Editing · Developmental Feedback

Composite

Converse with

The Publisher Simulacrum

Acquisition · Production · Distribution · The Business of Books

Composite

Converse with

The Critic Simulacrum

Literary Criticism · Review · Close Reading · Canon

Composite

Converse with

The Author as Professional Simulacrum

Writing Practice · Career · The Business of Books

Composite

Converse with

The Beowulf Poet Simulacrum

Old English Epic · Heroic Poetry · Anglo-Saxon

c. 8th–11th century

Converse with

Geoffrey Chaucer Simulacrum

Middle English · Canterbury Tales · Narrative Poetry

14th century

Converse with

Christopher Marlowe Simulacrum

Tragedy · Renaissance Drama · Blank Verse · Overreaching

16th century

Converse with

William Shakespeare Simulacrum

Drama · Poetry · Human Nature · Theatre

16th–17th century

Converse with

Samuel Johnson Simulacrum

The Dictionary · The Lives of the Poets · The Rambler · Literary Criticism · The English Essay

18th century

Converse with

Charles Dickens Simulacrum

The Social Novel · Serial Fiction · Character · London · A Christmas Carol · Great Expectations · Bleak House

19th century

Converse with

Mary Shelley Simulacrum

Frankenstein · Gothic Fiction · Creation and Responsibility · The Modern Prometheus · Science and Ethics

19th century

Converse with

Robert Louis Stevenson Simulacrum

Jekyll and Hyde · Treasure Island · Duality · Adventure · The Essay · Samoa

19th century

Converse with

William Wordsworth Simulacrum

Lyrical Ballads · The Prelude · Romantic Poetry · Nature · Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity · The Lake District

18th–19th century

Converse with

William Blake Simulacrum

Songs of Innocence and Experience · The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · Visionary Poetry · Contraries · Illuminated Printing

18th–19th century

Converse with

Wilfred Owen Simulacrum

War Poetry · Dulce et Decorum Est · Anthem for Doomed Youth · Half-rhyme · Witness · The Pity of War

20th century

Converse with

Goldingian Literature Simulacrum

Lord of the Flies · The Inheritors · The Darkness Within · Civilisation and Savagery · The Fable as Novel

20th century

Converse with

Ben Jonson Simulacrum

Comedy of Humours · Satire · Jacobean Drama

16th–17th century

Converse with

Beaumont & Fletcher Simulacrum

Tragicomedy · Jacobean Theatre · Collaborative Drama

16th–17th century

Converse with

Molière Simulacrum

Comedy · Satire · Human Folly · French Theatre

17th century

Converse with

Captain Marryat Simulacrum

Naval Fiction · Adventure · 19th-Century Prose

18th–19th century

Converse with

Edward Lear Simulacrum

Nonsense Literature · Poetry · Natural History

19th century

Converse with

Charlotte Brontë Simulacrum

Victorian Gothic · Passion · Interior Life

19th century

Converse with

George Eliot Simulacrum

Victorian Novel · Sympathy · Moral Psychology

19th century

Converse with

B. Traven Simulacrum

Anarchist Fiction · Labour · Mystery · Adventure

19th–20th century

Converse with

Priestleyan Social Drama Simulacrum

Time Plays · An Inspector Calls · Social Conscience · English Realism

19th–20th century

Converse with

Vladimir Nabokov Simulacrum

Literary Fiction · Style · Memory · Chess

19th–20th century

Converse with

Clarice Lispector Simulacrum

Brazilian Modernism · Interior Life · Epiphany

20th century

Converse with

Kurt Vonnegut Simulacrum

Satire · Humanism · Dark Comedy · Anti-War

20th–21st century

Converse with

Joseph Heller Simulacrum

Satire · War · Bureaucratic Absurdity · Dark Comedy

20th century

Converse with

Reva Virginia George Simulacrum

Literature · Criticism · Consciousness · Narrative

Non-historical

Converse with

Alan Ginsberg-Cobden Simulacrum

Thriller · Suburbia · Hidden Lives · Plot · Composite

Non-historical

Converse with

Samuel Beckett Simulacrum

Lessness · The Unnamable · Waiting for Godot · Failure as Method · The Form That Accommodates the Mess

1906–1989

Converse with

William Faulkner Simulacrum

Time as Simultaneity · Yoknapatawpha · Stream of Consciousness · The Sound and the Fury · The Past is Never Dead

1897–1962

Converse with

Ernest Hemingway Simulacrum

The Iceberg Principle · Subtraction · Prose Architecture · The Old Man and the Sea · One True Sentence

1899–1961

Converse with

Thomas Mann Simulacrum

Ironic Double Vision · Buddenbrooks · The Magic Mountain · Death in Venice · Doctor Faustus · Decline and Civilisation

1875–1955

Converse with

Toni Morrison Simulacrum

Language as Power · The Black Interior · Rememory · Self-Possession · Playing in the Dark

1931–2019

Converse with

Wisława Szymborska Simulacrum

Poetry · Irony and Precision · The Uses of Not Knowing · Twentieth-Century Poland · The Refusal of the Ordinary

1923–2012

Converse with

Naguib Mahfouz Simulacrum

The Cairo Trilogy · The Lane as Microcosm · Arabic Novel · Social Realism · Sufi Allegory

1911–2006

Converse with

Soyinkan Tragic Drama Simulacrum

Death and the King's Horseman · Yoruba Cosmology · The Fourth Stage · Political Theatre · Ogun Principle

b. 1934

Converse with

Kawabata Yasunari Simulacrum

Japanese Aesthetics · Impermanence · Snow Country · The Sound of the Mountain · Image Over Explanation

1899–1972

Converse with

Rabindranath Tagore Simulacrum

Synthesis of Civilisations · Gitanjali · Visva-Bharati · Nationalism Critique · The Poet-Philosopher

1861–1941

Converse with

W.B. Yeats Simulacrum

Gyre-Thinking · A Vision · The Tower · Irish Literary Revival · The Mystic Modernist

1865–1939

Converse with

Sîn-lēqi-unninni (the Edubba) Simulacrum

Standard Babylonian Gilgamesh · Literary Editing · āšipu · First Named Literary Editor

12th century BCE

Converse with

Plutarch of Chaeronea Simulacrum

Parallel Lives · Moralia · Biography as Moral Instruction · Delphi · Middle Platonism

2nd century

Converse with

Apuleius of Madauros Simulacrum

The Golden Ass · Cupid and Psyche · Rhetoric · Middle Platonism · Madauros

2nd century

Converse with

Nezahualcoyotl Simulacrum

Nahuatl Poetry · Flower-and-Song Tradition · In Tloque Nahuaque · Texcoco · Elegy

15th century

Converse with

Macuilxochitzin Simulacrum

Nahuatl Poetry · Song of the Shields · Aztec Women’s Literature · Xochipilli Tradition

15th century

Converse with

Angelo Poliziano Simulacrum

Classical Scholarship · Stanze per la Giostra · Orfeo · Textual Philology · Miscellanea

15th century

Converse with

Jorge Luis Borges Simulacrum

Magical Realism · Labyrinths · Infinite Libraries

19th–20th century

Converse with

Dr. Seuss Simulacrum

Children's Literature · Verse · Social Wisdom

20th century

Converse with

Fritz Leiber Simulacrum

Sword & Sorcery · Dark Fantasy · Urban Horror

20th century

Converse with

Leigh Brackett Simulacrum

Planetary Romance · Film Noir · Science Fiction

20th century

Converse with

Isaac Asimov Simulacrum

Science Fiction · Physics · Popularisation

20th century

Converse with

Italo Calvino Simulacrum

Experimental Fiction · Postmodern · Lightness

20th century

Converse with

Anne McCaffrey Simulacrum

Science Fantasy · Dragonriders · Worldbuilding

20th–21st century

Converse with

Ursula K. Le Guin Simulacrum

Science Fiction · Anarchism · Feminism · Worldbuilding

20th–21st century

Converse with

Terry Pratchett Simulacrum

Satirical Fantasy · Discworld · Moral Comedy

20th–21st century

Converse with

Douglas Adams Simulacrum

Science Fiction · Absurdism · Comedy

20th–21st century

Converse with

Martinesque POV Simulacrum

Multi-POV Narrative · Fantasy Epic · Character-Driven · The Long Game

POV narrative tradition

Converse with

Ackroydian Temporal Layering Simulacrum

Dual Timeline · Voice Resurrection · London Palimpsest · Pastiche Archaeology

Temporal layering tradition

Converse with

Anti-Consolatory Fiction Simulacrum

New Weird · Literary SF · Anti-Consolatory · The Stubborn Real

New Weird tradition

Converse with

The Thought Experiment Tradition Simulacrum

Rigorous Empathy · One Impossible Premise · Logical Consequence · SF as Philosophy

Thought experiment tradition

Converse with

The Weight of Unbelief Simulacrum

Epic Fantasy · Psychological Density · Despite-Structure · Unwilling Hero

Dark epic tradition

Converse with

W.E.B. Du Bois Simulacrum

Double Consciousness · The Veil · The Souls of Black Folk · Speculative Fiction · Afrofuturism

1868–1963