#essay architecture

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

Oct 12 •

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 •

Table of Contents

Essay Architecture (the whole book)

Sep 16 •

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

Unlike literary prizes w/ vague standards, I've turned an unreasonably detailed rubric into software + am giving you unlimited access. Runs 9/15-11/23…

Sep 1 •

Burn down your architecture

Why I rebuilt Essay Architecture from scratch

Aug 15 •

Best American Essays?

Let's analyze composition across the 2024 anthology

Jan 31 •

Year of the wiki

Essay Architecture undergoes a phase change

Jan 9 •

Essay Writing as Personal Sovereignty

Shaping AI to preserve the slow craft of critical thought

Oct 29, 2024 •

A Pattern Language

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

Oct 13, 2024 •

Here is New York (1949)

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

Aug 30, 2024 •

4 Types of Material in Every Essay

What do you keep as you sift through silos?

Aug 2, 2024 •

Against Interpretation (1964)

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

Jul 20, 2024 •

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