Sitemap - 2024 - Josh Spilker

Just go watch "The Holdovers"

Notes on reading/watching (12/28/24)

Things to share this weekend (12/14/24)

Books I Read This Year (2024)

Writers aren't heroes

Things to share this weekend (11/30)

I’ll say the quiet parts about writing out loud so you don’t have to

Things to share this weekend (11/23)

Things to share this weekend (11/16)

I fed 700 articles into ChatGPT to find my "voice"

Things to share this weekend (11/9)

On buying some pencils

Things to share this weekend (10/26/24)

Things to share this weekend (10/19/24)

College kids don't read long books

Things worth sharing this weekend (10/11/24)

Things worth sharing this weekend (10/5/24)

The right books will find you

Things worth sharing this weekend (9/28/24)

5 reasons why current culture is great

Things worth sharing this weekend (9/21/24)

Open-ended stories changed reality more than fiction

Things worth sharing this weekend (9/14/24)

One year in New York

5 things worth sharing this weekend (8/31/24)

Magazines are dead. Long live magazines.

6 things worth sharing this weekend (8/24/24)

5 things worth sharing this weekend

Writing a novel was not a good financial decision

6 things worth sharing this weekend

Audiobooks are a complement, not the main thing

5 things worth sharing this weekend

5 things worth sharing this weekend

5 things worth sharing this weekend

Best books of the current century

5 things worth sharing this weekend

Off-brand books

5 things worth sharing this weekend

how i journal now

kanye's house, unreliable narrators, physical stuff, tao lin in NYC

intellectual obesity, keep going to college, unusually formed novels, books i don't read

Books I don't read

authors turned artists, great wave, virtue of slow writers

Saying hello

writer math, attention cottage, doodle a droodle

All my favorite novelists have day jobs

Productivity tips from fairy tales, YouTube vs Hollywood, & too many books?

7 things worth sharing this weekend

My 2nd screen is a book

7 things worth sharing this weekend

Skills give you options, not obligations

7 things worth sharing this weekend

spiraling out, slow writers, reading books in the day time?!?

What I bought my kids (that made me a hipster? or practical?)

create a solution, keeping up with books, working w/ your hands

Unexpectedly effective note-taking habit + writing w/ kids

revolutionary notes, life shortcuts, photos of simulacra, AI-generated punk rock song

This NYTimes profile on an "outsider" musician is really about...?

productivity as part of creativity, beautiful image fatigue, Gen-Z beowulf

Why mediocrity may be your gateway to greatness

funniest novels, safety net, pseudo-intellectualism, haslam's bookstore

Bookstores can sell whatever they want

great amer novels, classics as clickbait, what indy bookstores sell

It's hard for art to be good & popular

less serious, reading every day, scaling marshmallows

We need more writing about "work"

Artist as office drone, you're all fired, sometimes you do need to hustle

Am I a worse writer than I was 10 years ago?

State of culture, vice, amateur writers

literary rivals

Make things complicated

“Nothing I like to do pays well” part 2

Nothing I like to do pays well

Where is your sting

Things to read this week

A mile away in your shoes

Meetings of the mind

Reading goals