Essay Architecture

November 2025

November 2025 logs

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Nov 30, 2025

Quality is the transcendence of categories

Announcing the judges for the 2025 Essay Architecture Prize & the judging system that will shape the anthology

Nov 23, 2025 • Michael Dean

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Nov 19, 2025 • Michael Dean

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How do you deconstruct prose?

Thinking in patterns without thinking like a machine. Of course Joan Didion uses repetition, but why?

Nov 1, 2025 • Michael Dean

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October 2025

October 2025 logs

logloglog | 2025-10-October

Oct 31, 2025

$9 essay coach

The feedback you won't get from your friends, family, and chatbots

Oct 12, 2025 • Michael Dean

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September 2025

September 2025 logs

logloglog | 2025-09-Sep

Sep 30, 2025

What's it like to live in 2025?

In this post I cover the prompt for The Essay Architecture Prize, why I picked it, some approaches, our judging criteria, the rules, 50+ examples …

Sep 16, 2025 • Michael Dean

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Table of Contents

Essay Architecture (the whole book)

Sep 16, 2025 • Michael Dean

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Idea

Have you explored a terrain of concepts to find a central idea that can organize complexity?

Sep 15, 2025 • Michael Dean

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Material (1)

Have you tapped into your personal and cultural memory to build an argument that supports your thesis?

Sep 15, 2025 • Michael Dean

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