Buy my book: The Best Internet Essays 2025

Order by Monday, 4/6; 100% of royalties go to the writers, judges, and 2026 prize pool.

I’ve written three posts about this anthology now, but if you only read the subject lines, you might not know I’m selling a book. So, final call! It ships in 3 days, on Monday, April 6th around 5pm ET.

The Best Internet Essays 2025 is a pocket-sized paperback of 13 essays, each written in and about the year. It features the finalists of an essay prize, and each piece went through another round of edits to make them even tighter. Consider this a mosaic of well-crafted immersive experiences to make sense of our times. It’s $29 and 100% of royalties go to the writers, the judges, and the 2026 prize pool. Let’s make this an annual experiment.

This is a limited edition print, so if you’re interested you should order it now before the weekend slips away.

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I’ve always heard that creating and self-publishing a book is an all-consuming ordeal, and now I can appreciate it first-hand. Not to mention, the process here was atypical. Shifting between software and operations and editing and graphic design (all while becoming a parent!) was exhausting, but well worth it. It’s been 7 months since I first announced the Essay Architecture Prize, and I wanted to pull together all the essays that tell the story of this project’s evolution:

1. I’m giving $10,000 to the best essay of 2025, announcing the competition;

2. Essay Architecture (Table of Contents), a textbook on the criteria;

3. What’s it like to live in 2025?, the prompt;

4. $9 essay coach, the feedback tool;

5. Quality is the transcendence of categories, our judging process;

6. Winners of the $10k essay prize, announcing the book;

7. Human-shaped sensemaking, the theme of the anthology;

8. We are big floating heads looking for our bodies; a chat with the winner.

The final test print came in last night. I’ve read each of the essays several times by now, but I’ve yet to read it cover-to-cover, and so early tomorrow morning I’m going to walk over to a park and take in the full experience.

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