#essay architecture

Summer syllabus for Essay Club

Mondays at 7pm ET, 12 classics between now and Labor Day

Jun 20 • Michael Dean

Winners of the $10k essay prize

Congrats to Tommy Dixon and the 10 finalists in our new print anthology, The Best Internet Essays 2025

Mar 11 • Michael Dean

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

Oct 12, 2025 • Michael Dean

Table of Contents

Essay Architecture (the whole book)

Sep 16, 2025 • Michael Dean

I’m giving $10,000 to the best essay of 2025

And the finalists will get published in a printed Metalabel anthology (submit by 11/23/2025)

Sep 1, 2025 • Michael Dean

Best American Essays?

Let's analyze composition across the 2024 anthology

Jan 31, 2025 • Michael Dean

Essay Writing as Personal Sovereignty

Shaping AI to preserve the slow craft of critical thought

Oct 29, 2024 • Michael Dean

A Pattern Language

You don’t need templates, advice, rules, or Rick Rubin; you need to become fluent.

Oct 13, 2024 • Michael Dean

Here is New York (1949)

E.B. White (Dean’s List, Essay Review #2)

Aug 30, 2024 • Michael Dean

4 Types of Material in Every Essay

What do you keep as you sift through silos?

Aug 2, 2024 • Michael Dean

Against Interpretation (1964)

Susan Sontag (Dean’s List, Essay Review #1)

Jul 20, 2024 • Michael Dean

Turning the Ur pattern into code

Jul 16, 2024 • Michael Dean

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