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✨ Experimental Form

Writing that treats structure itself as meaning, bending or shattering conventional narrative architecture to create something readers must actively inhabit.
Multiple Choice
by Alejandro Zambra • 2014
A multiple-choice test on love, family, and Chile's dictatorship. No correct answers.
3.90
7k+
🧪 Experimental Fiction🧩 Fragmentary Narrative📏 Oulipian Constraints
Multiple Choice Summary
Multiple Choice 88%
A multiple-choice test on love, family, and Chile's dictatorship. No correct answers.
by Alejandro Zambra 2014
3.90
7k+ ratings
🧪 Experimental Fiction🧩 Fragmentary Narrative📏 Oulipian Constraints
Julio Cortázar
by Robert Brody • 1976
The novel that made the reader an accomplice: its mechanisms and meanings, fully decoded.
4.37
8k+
🥁 Latin American Boom📕 Postmodern Literature🔬 Experimental Fiction
Julio Cortázar Summary
Julio Cortázar 88%
The novel that made the reader an accomplice: its mechanisms and meanings, fully decoded.
by Robert Brody 1976
4.37
8k+ ratings
🥁 Latin American Boom📕 Postmodern Literature🔬 Experimental Fiction
About Writing
by Samuel R. Delany • 2006
The sentence, not the world, is science fiction's true unit of meaning. A master explains why.
4.26
459
🚀 Science Fiction Craft📚 Genre Theory🌊 New Wave Sf
About Writing Summary
About Writing 88%
The sentence, not the world, is science fiction's true unit of meaning. A master explains why.
by Samuel R. Delany 2006
4.26
459 ratings
🚀 Science Fiction Craft📚 Genre Theory🌊 New Wave Sf
Nonbinary
by Genesis P-Orridge • 2021
Genesis P-Orridge died twice: once by accident, once to become an experiment in erasing gender.
4.00
577
🎸 Industrial Music📖 Countercultural Memoir🏳️‍⚧️ Gender Fluidity
Nonbinary Summary
Nonbinary 87%
Genesis P-Orridge died twice: once by accident, once to become an experiment in erasing gender.
by Genesis P-Orridge 2021
4.00
577 ratings
🎸 Industrial Music📖 Countercultural Memoir🏳️‍⚧️ Gender Fluidity
Dhalgren
by Samuel R. Delany • 1975
No memory, no name, no exit: a wanderer in a city where reality rewrites itself daily.
3.77
12k+
📖 Experimental Narrative📝 Metafiction🧠 Amnesiac Protagonist
Dhalgren Summary
Dhalgren 87%
No memory, no name, no exit: a wanderer in a city where reality rewrites itself daily.
by Samuel R. Delany 1975
3.77
12k+ ratings
📖 Experimental Narrative📝 Metafiction🧠 Amnesiac Protagonist
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
by Kenneth O. Stanley • 2015
Ambitious objectives blind you to the very discoveries that make them obsolete.
3.98
1k+
💡 Innovation Studies🚫 Goal Skepticism✨ Serendipity And Discovery
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned Summary
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned 87%
Ambitious objectives blind you to the very discoveries that make them obsolete.
by Kenneth O. Stanley 2015
3.98
1k+ ratings
💡 Innovation Studies🚫 Goal Skepticism✨ Serendipity And Discovery
Sound Within Sound
by Kate Molleson • 2022
A microtonal Mexican, an Ethiopian nun, and eight more composers the classical canon erased.
4.34
181
🧪 Experimental Music🗓️ 20th Century Music👩 Women Composers
Sound Within Sound Summary
Sound Within Sound 87%
A microtonal Mexican, an Ethiopian nun, and eight more composers the classical canon erased.
by Kate Molleson 2022
4.34
181 ratings
🧪 Experimental Music🗓️ 20th Century Music👩 Women Composers
Água Viva
by Clarice Lispector • 2012
A painter writes, chasing the instant that is always now and already gone.
4.25
26k+
🖋️ Prose Poetry🌊 Stream Of Consciousness🧘 Philosophical Meditation
Água Viva Summary
Água Viva 87%
A painter writes, chasing the instant that is always now and already gone.
by Clarice Lispector 2012
4.25
26k+ ratings
🖋️ Prose Poetry🌊 Stream Of Consciousness🧘 Philosophical Meditation
Hertzian Tales
by Anthony Dunne • 1999
Electronic objects are behavioral scripts and portals to a hidden electromagnetic world.
4.26
125
🔮 Critical Design📦 Poetics Of Objects👆 Aesthetics Of Use
Hertzian Tales Summary
Hertzian Tales 87%
Electronic objects are behavioral scripts and portals to a hidden electromagnetic world.
by Anthony Dunne 1999
4.26
125 ratings
🔮 Critical Design📦 Poetics Of Objects👆 Aesthetics Of Use
Glitch Feminism
by Legacy Russell • 2020
The glitch is not a mistake to fix; it’s a weapon against the binary body.
3.76
3k+
🤖 Cyberfeminism🌈 Queer Theory💻 Digital Embodiment
Glitch Feminism Summary
Glitch Feminism 87%
The glitch is not a mistake to fix; it’s a weapon against the binary body.
by Legacy Russell 2020
3.76
3k+ ratings
🤖 Cyberfeminism🌈 Queer Theory💻 Digital Embodiment
The Strength to Dream
by Colin Wilson • 1962
The crisis of modern literature is a failure of imagination, and the cost is human freedom.
3.93
123
📝 Literary Criticism🎨 Philosophy Of Art🧠 Existentialism
The Strength to Dream Summary
The Strength to Dream 87%
The crisis of modern literature is a failure of imagination, and the cost is human freedom.
by Colin Wilson 1962
3.93
123 ratings
📝 Literary Criticism🎨 Philosophy Of Art🧠 Existentialism
Re-Sisters
by Cosey Fanni Tutti • 2022
An artist finds her countercultural lineage in a medieval mystic and an electronic music pioneer.
3.69
143
🎛️ Electronic Music Pioneers✊ Feminist Biography🙏 Medieval Mysticism
Re-Sisters Summary
Re-Sisters 87%
An artist finds her countercultural lineage in a medieval mystic and an electronic music pioneer.
by Cosey Fanni Tutti 2022
3.69
143 ratings
🎛️ Electronic Music Pioneers✊ Feminist Biography🙏 Medieval Mysticism
Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller • 1934
A broke American drifts through Paris, turning hunger, sex, and failure into an ecstatic howl.
3.65
79k+
🧪 Experimental Fiction🗼 1930s Paris🎨 Starving Artist
Tropic of Cancer Summary
Tropic of Cancer 87%
A broke American drifts through Paris, turning hunger, sex, and failure into an ecstatic howl.
by Henry Miller 1934
3.65
79k+ ratings
🧪 Experimental Fiction🗼 1930s Paris🎨 Starving Artist
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
by Franz Kafka • 2023
Kafka's diaries: the body hatred, the office dread, the nights his fiction tried to escape.
4.28
577
📖 Literary Diaries🎨 Creative Struggle🌙 Dream Journaling
The Diaries of Franz Kafka Summary
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 87%
Kafka's diaries: the body hatred, the office dread, the nights his fiction tried to escape.
by Franz Kafka 2023
4.28
577 ratings
📖 Literary Diaries🎨 Creative Struggle🌙 Dream Journaling
Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs • 1959
A junkie fleeing the law plunges into a surreal city where addiction drives every transaction.
3.46
99k+
🚫 Transgressive Fiction🥁 Beat Generation✂️ Experimental Novel
Naked Lunch Summary
Naked Lunch 87%
A junkie fleeing the law plunges into a surreal city where addiction drives every transaction.
by William S. Burroughs 1959
3.46
99k+ ratings
🚫 Transgressive Fiction🥁 Beat Generation✂️ Experimental Novel
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
by Wassily Kandinsky • 1912
Abstract painting is not emptiness but a spiritual language more direct than any image.
3.83
93k+
🧱 Abstract Art🎨 Color Theory🖼️ Art Theory
Concerning the Spiritual in Art Summary
Concerning the Spiritual in Art 87%
Abstract painting is not emptiness but a spiritual language more direct than any image.
by Wassily Kandinsky 1912
3.83
93k+ ratings
🧱 Abstract Art🎨 Color Theory🖼️ Art Theory
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
by Curtis Smith • 2016
A writer unpacks the alien logic and buried grief inside Vonnegut's time-jumping anti-war classic.
4.27
41
📚 Literary Criticism⚔️ War Literature🔄 Postmodern Fiction
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five Summary
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five 87%
A writer unpacks the alien logic and buried grief inside Vonnegut's time-jumping anti-war classic.
by Curtis Smith 2016
4.27
41 ratings
📚 Literary Criticism⚔️ War Literature🔄 Postmodern Fiction
Poesía completa
by Alejandra Pizarnik • 2000
Poetry cannot close the wound it names. The truest self only breathes after dark.
4.55
11k+
📝 Confessional Poetry🌎 Latin American Poetry🌀 Surrealism
Poesía completa Summary
Poesía completa 87%
Poetry cannot close the wound it names. The truest self only breathes after dark.
by Alejandra Pizarnik 2000
4.55
11k+ ratings
📝 Confessional Poetry🌎 Latin American Poetry🌀 Surrealism
Aspects of the Novel
by E.M. Forster • 1927
A novelist dismantles fiction into its working parts: story, plot, and the characters who breathe.
3.80
5k+
🛠️ Novel Craft🎭 Character Development🏗️ Narrative Structure
Aspects of the Novel Summary
Aspects of the Novel 87%
A novelist dismantles fiction into its working parts: story, plot, and the characters who breathe.
by E.M. Forster 1927
3.80
5k+ ratings
🛠️ Novel Craft🎭 Character Development🏗️ Narrative Structure
(The Unconsoled) [By
by Kazuo Ishiguro • 1995
A pianist is summoned to save a city through music, but he cannot find the stage.
3.59
19k+
🔮 Dream Logic🎹 Artist In Crisis🎭 Unreliable Narrator
(The Unconsoled) [By Summary
(The Unconsoled) [By 87%
A pianist is summoned to save a city through music, but he cannot find the stage.
by Kazuo Ishiguro 1995
3.59
19k+ ratings
🔮 Dream Logic🎹 Artist In Crisis🎭 Unreliable Narrator
Borges on Writing
by Jorge Luis Borges • 1973
Plausibility trumps truth, short stories hinge on a situation, and great poems arrive unbidden.
4.07
1k+
📝 Literary Craft🎻 Poetry Craft🌐 Translation Studies
Borges on Writing Summary
Borges on Writing 87%
Plausibility trumps truth, short stories hinge on a situation, and great poems arrive unbidden.
by Jorge Luis Borges 1973
4.07
1k+ ratings
📝 Literary Craft🎻 Poetry Craft🌐 Translation Studies
The Longing for Less
by Kyle Chayka • 2020
The clean lines of minimalism hide a messy history: Zen monks, art rebels, and $8,200 stereos.
3.45
1k+
🎨 Modernist Art📐 Design Philosophy📰 Cultural Criticism
The Longing for Less Summary
The Longing for Less 87%
The clean lines of minimalism hide a messy history: Zen monks, art rebels, and $8,200 stereos.
by Kyle Chayka 2020
3.45
1k+ ratings
🎨 Modernist Art📐 Design Philosophy📰 Cultural Criticism
The Wisdom of the Heart
by Henry Miller • 1941
Modern men are half-alive and call it progress. The cure starts when the thinking stops.
4.03
663
📖 Literary Philosophy📚 Essay Collections🎨 Creative Process
The Wisdom of the Heart Summary
The Wisdom of the Heart 87%
Modern men are half-alive and call it progress. The cure starts when the thinking stops.
by Henry Miller 1941
4.03
663 ratings
📖 Literary Philosophy📚 Essay Collections🎨 Creative Process
Dialogism
by Michael Holquist • 1990
All speech answers prior speech, all selves depend on others: the dialogic philosophy of Bakhtin.
4.09
88
📖 Literary Theory💬 Philosophy Of Language👥 Intersubjectivity
Dialogism Summary
Dialogism 86%
All speech answers prior speech, all selves depend on others: the dialogic philosophy of Bakhtin.
by Michael Holquist 1990
4.09
88 ratings
📖 Literary Theory💬 Philosophy Of Language👥 Intersubjectivity
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
by Gertrude Stein • 1933
Alice Toklas meets Gertrude Stein in 1907 Paris, entering the salon where modern art was born.
3.54
14k+
📖 Experimental Memoir🎨 Literary Modernism🛋️ Salon Culture
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Summary
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 86%
Alice Toklas meets Gertrude Stein in 1907 Paris, entering the salon where modern art was born.
by Gertrude Stein 1933
3.54
14k+ ratings
📖 Experimental Memoir🎨 Literary Modernism🛋️ Salon Culture
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
by Orhan Pamuk • 2010
Why great novels put you in a trance even as you know every word is invented.
3.95
3k+
🎨 Novel As Art Form📖 Reading Experience✍️ Novel Craft
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist Summary
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist 86%
Why great novels put you in a trance even as you know every word is invented.
by Orhan Pamuk 2010
3.95
3k+ ratings
🎨 Novel As Art Form📖 Reading Experience✍️ Novel Craft
The Missing Piece
by Shel Silverstein • 1976
A circle rolls with a gap and sings, certain the absent shape will make it whole.
4.28
32k+
🌀 Existential Allegory🦋 Embracing Imperfection📖 Illustrated Fable
The Missing Piece Summary
The Missing Piece 86%
A circle rolls with a gap and sings, certain the absent shape will make it whole.
by Shel Silverstein 1976
4.28
32k+ ratings
🌀 Existential Allegory🦋 Embracing Imperfection📖 Illustrated Fable
In Praise of Risk
by Anne Dufourmantelle • 2011
To avoid risk is to refuse life. A philosopher's argument for love, beauty, and freedom.
4.12
613
🧠 Continental Philosophy🛋️ Psychoanalytic Thought✍️ Essay Collections
In Praise of Risk Summary
In Praise of Risk 86%
To avoid risk is to refuse life. A philosopher's argument for love, beauty, and freedom.
by Anne Dufourmantelle 2011
4.12
613 ratings
🧠 Continental Philosophy🛋️ Psychoanalytic Thought✍️ Essay Collections
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems
by T.S. Eliot • 1922
A man paralyzed by self-doubt walks city streets as a wasteland demands to know what remains.
4.14
12k+
📜 Modernist Poetry🧠 Stream Of Consciousness🏙️ Urban Decay
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems Summary
The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems 86%
A man paralyzed by self-doubt walks city streets as a wasteland demands to know what remains.
by T.S. Eliot 1922
4.14
12k+ ratings
📜 Modernist Poetry🧠 Stream Of Consciousness🏙️ Urban Decay
History of Modern Art
by H. Harvard Arnason • 1968
How a century of painters dismantled perspective, freed color, and rebuilt art from scratch.
4.01
9k+
🎨 Modern Art🏛️ Western Art🖼️ Art Movements
History of Modern Art Summary
History of Modern Art 86%
How a century of painters dismantled perspective, freed color, and rebuilt art from scratch.
by H. Harvard Arnason 1968
4.01
9k+ ratings
🎨 Modern Art🏛️ Western Art🖼️ Art Movements
Geek Sublime
by Vikram Chandra • 2013
Why great code feels elegant: the answer may lie in ancient Indian aesthetics, not algorithms.
3.28
1k+
💻 Code Aesthetics🌐 Computing Culture🪷 Indian Aesthetics
Geek Sublime Summary
Geek Sublime 86%
Why great code feels elegant: the answer may lie in ancient Indian aesthetics, not algorithms.
by Vikram Chandra 2013
3.28
1k+ ratings
💻 Code Aesthetics🌐 Computing Culture🪷 Indian Aesthetics
Cyclonopedia
by Reza Negarestani • 2008
Beneath her hotel bed: a manuscript revealing the Middle East is alive, oil its demonic pulse.
3.86
1k+
🔮 Theory Fiction🌌 Cosmic Horror📜 Found Manuscript
Cyclonopedia Summary
Cyclonopedia 86%
Beneath her hotel bed: a manuscript revealing the Middle East is alive, oil its demonic pulse.
by Reza Negarestani 2008
3.86
1k+ ratings
🔮 Theory Fiction🌌 Cosmic Horror📜 Found Manuscript
The Lonely Voice
by Frank O'Connor • 1961
The short story speaks for the outsider the novel was never built to see.
3.89
246
📐 Short Story Theory✍️ Writers On Writing🔨 Craft Of Fiction
The Lonely Voice Summary
The Lonely Voice 86%
The short story speaks for the outsider the novel was never built to see.
by Frank O'Connor 1961
3.89
246 ratings
📐 Short Story Theory✍️ Writers On Writing🔨 Craft Of Fiction
The Logic of Sense
by Gilles Deleuze • 1969
Sense is not a thing but an event, a surface effect where language meets the world.
4.29
1k+
🧩 Post-Structuralism💬 Philosophy Of Language🏛️ Stoic Logic
The Logic of Sense Summary
The Logic of Sense 86%
Sense is not a thing but an event, a surface effect where language meets the world.
by Gilles Deleuze 1969
4.29
1k+ ratings
🧩 Post-Structuralism💬 Philosophy Of Language🏛️ Stoic Logic
Speculative Everything
by Anthony Dunne • 2013
Most design fixes problems. This design invents fictional worlds to test-drive better ones.
4.12
999
🧐 Design Criticism🔮 Futures Thinking⚙️ Technology Studies
Speculative Everything Summary
Speculative Everything 86%
Most design fixes problems. This design invents fictional worlds to test-drive better ones.
by Anthony Dunne 2013
4.12
999 ratings
🧐 Design Criticism🔮 Futures Thinking⚙️ Technology Studies
The Art of Creative Thinking
by Rod Judkins • 2015
Why artistic breakthroughs come from doubt, inexperience, and happy accidents, not innate talent.
4.00
3k+
🎨 Creative Process🖌️ Artistic Practice🧪 Creative Experimentation
The Art of Creative Thinking Summary
The Art of Creative Thinking 86%
Why artistic breakthroughs come from doubt, inexperience, and happy accidents, not innate talent.
by Rod Judkins 2015
4.00
3k+ ratings
🎨 Creative Process🖌️ Artistic Practice🧪 Creative Experimentation
Creativity Code
by Marcus du Sautoy • 2019
AI paints, composes, writes. But can a machine truly be creative? A mathematician investigates.
3.94
2k+
🤖 Machine Creativity🎨 Ai Generated Art🖌️ Generative Art
Creativity Code Summary
Creativity Code 86%
AI paints, composes, writes. But can a machine truly be creative? A mathematician investigates.
by Marcus du Sautoy 2019
3.94
2k+ ratings
🤖 Machine Creativity🎨 Ai Generated Art🖌️ Generative Art
Letters on Cézanne
by Rainer Maria Rilke • 1907
One poet's letters on Cézanne: how seeing becomes the artist's hardest and most honest work.
4.16
957
🖌️ Post-Impressionism🎨 Art Theory🌌 Creative Process
Letters on Cézanne Summary
Letters on Cézanne 86%
One poet's letters on Cézanne: how seeing becomes the artist's hardest and most honest work.
by Rainer Maria Rilke 1907
4.16
957 ratings
🖌️ Post-Impressionism🎨 Art Theory🌌 Creative Process
The Path of Least Resistance
by Robert Fritz • 1989
Problem solving oscillates. Creating resolves. Your underlying structure decides which you live.
4.06
2k+
🤖 Systems Thinking🎨 Creative Process🧭 Creative Orientation
The Path of Least Resistance Summary
The Path of Least Resistance 86%
Problem solving oscillates. Creating resolves. Your underlying structure decides which you live.
by Robert Fritz 1989
4.06
2k+ ratings
🤖 Systems Thinking🎨 Creative Process🧭 Creative Orientation
Information Is Beautiful
by David McCandless • 2001
Concept is the secret: why a simple, clever data drawing can reveal more than a supercomputer.
4.12
4k+
📊 Data Visualization🎨 Data Art👁️ Visual Literacy
Information Is Beautiful Summary
Information Is Beautiful 86%
Concept is the secret: why a simple, clever data drawing can reveal more than a supercomputer.
by David McCandless 2001
4.12
4k+ ratings
📊 Data Visualization🎨 Data Art👁️ Visual Literacy
Consider This
by Chuck Palahniuk • 2020
Most writing advice avoids the craft that actually builds authority, tension, and voice.
4.37
6k+
🖋️ Writing Craft📖 Craft Memoir✂️ Literary Minimalism
Consider This Summary
Consider This 86%
Most writing advice avoids the craft that actually builds authority, tension, and voice.
by Chuck Palahniuk 2020
4.37
6k+ ratings
🖋️ Writing Craft📖 Craft Memoir✂️ Literary Minimalism
Shakespeare's Freedom
by Stephen Greenblatt • 2010
Shakespeare dreamed of absolute freedom; his entire career became a record of its limits.
3.83
175
🎭 Shakespearean Criticism📜 Renaissance Studies🏛️ New Historicism
Shakespeare's Freedom Summary
Shakespeare's Freedom 86%
Shakespeare dreamed of absolute freedom; his entire career became a record of its limits.
by Stephen Greenblatt 2010
3.83
175 ratings
🎭 Shakespearean Criticism📜 Renaissance Studies🏛️ New Historicism
Love and Other Thought Experiments
by Sophie Ward • 2020
An ant. A believer. A family, a death, and the universe that remembers them.
3.59
6k+
🌌 Philosophical Fiction🏠 Chosen Family👶 Queer Parenthood
Love and Other Thought Experiments Summary
Love and Other Thought Experiments 86%
An ant. A believer. A family, a death, and the universe that remembers them.
by Sophie Ward 2020
3.59
6k+ ratings
🌌 Philosophical Fiction🏠 Chosen Family👶 Queer Parenthood
The Posthuman
by Rosi Braidotti • 2013
Humanism promised progress but delivered exclusion. A theory of what we become next.
3.82
949
📚 Critical Theory🤖 Posthumanism🐾 Animal Studies
The Posthuman Summary
The Posthuman 86%
Humanism promised progress but delivered exclusion. A theory of what we become next.
by Rosi Braidotti 2013
3.82
949 ratings
📚 Critical Theory🤖 Posthumanism🐾 Animal Studies
Lives of the Artists
by Calvin Tomkins • 2008
When art has no fixed rules, the artist's life becomes the work. Ten portraits.
4.10
586
🎨 Contemporary Art✍️ Art Criticism💰 Art And Commerce
Lives of the Artists Summary
Lives of the Artists 86%
When art has no fixed rules, the artist's life becomes the work. Ten portraits.
by Calvin Tomkins 2008
4.10
586 ratings
🎨 Contemporary Art✍️ Art Criticism💰 Art And Commerce
The Translator's Invisibility
by Lawrence Venuti • 1994
The smoother a translation reads, the more it erases the foreign culture and the translator's labor.
3.79
272
🧠 Translation Studies📚 Literary Theory⚖️ Translation Ethics
The Translator's Invisibility Summary
The Translator's Invisibility 86%
The smoother a translation reads, the more it erases the foreign culture and the translator's labor.
by Lawrence Venuti 1994
3.79
272 ratings
🧠 Translation Studies📚 Literary Theory⚖️ Translation Ethics
The Art of Intimacy
by Stacey D'Erasmo • 2013
Fiction's real intimacy lives in the subjunctive, the white space, and the shared glance.
3.93
248
🎓 Literary Criticism✍️ Craft Of Fiction🗣️ Narrative Voice
The Art of Intimacy Summary
The Art of Intimacy 86%
Fiction's real intimacy lives in the subjunctive, the white space, and the shared glance.
by Stacey D'Erasmo 2013
3.93
248 ratings
🎓 Literary Criticism✍️ Craft Of Fiction🗣️ Narrative Voice
Writing and Difference
by Jacques Derrida • 1967
Structuralism loved the architecture of texts. One philosopher asked where the energy went.
4.00
8k+
🏛️ Continental Philosophy📜 Literary Theory✍️ Philosophy Of Writing
Writing and Difference Summary
Writing and Difference 86%
Structuralism loved the architecture of texts. One philosopher asked where the energy went.
by Jacques Derrida 1967
4.00
8k+ ratings
🏛️ Continental Philosophy📜 Literary Theory✍️ Philosophy Of Writing
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
by Iain Reid • 2016
A woman's doubts explode into horror when a visit to her boyfriend's family farm turns surreal.
3.50
206k+
🖤 Psychological Horror🤥 Unreliable Narrator📖 Metafiction
I'm Thinking of Ending Things Summary
I'm Thinking of Ending Things 86%
A woman's doubts explode into horror when a visit to her boyfriend's family farm turns surreal.
by Iain Reid 2016
3.50
206k+ ratings
🖤 Psychological Horror🤥 Unreliable Narrator📖 Metafiction
Feck Perfuction
by James Victore • 2019
Perfection kills more work than criticism ever did. A designer's guide to making things anyway.
4.04
2k+
🎨 Creative Process🚫 Anti-Perfectionism💪 Embracing Failure
Feck Perfuction Summary
Feck Perfuction 86%
Perfection kills more work than criticism ever did. A designer's guide to making things anyway.
by James Victore 2019
4.04
2k+ ratings
🎨 Creative Process🚫 Anti-Perfectionism💪 Embracing Failure
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