How to Glow in the Dark

You can be right and an asshole at the same time

On why I think the Helen DeWitt drama is an "everyone sucks here" situation.

Apr 11 • Anna Sproul-Latimer

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On lurching for paradise

Or: my take on SHY GIRL and the rest of the current publishing discourse.

Apr 2 • Anna Sproul-Latimer

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March 2026

Powers of ten

What zooming out can teach you.

Mar 20 • Eloy Bleifuss Prados

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Meat! Meat! Meat! Or: what you should know about the current international publishing market and your place in it

Here's what I learned at this year's London Book Fair.

Mar 15 • Anna Sproul-Latimer

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How to tell when you're lying to yourself

On the particular kind of stuckness behind (most) bad writing by good writers.

Mar 6 • Anna Sproul-Latimer

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February 2026

On finding and loving the metadata

Or: why you should care about the boring stuff (and the BISG).

Feb 23 • Anna Sproul-Latimer

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It's Ask Anything week for premium subscribers!

Publishing, writing, books, feelings: ask me and each other (nearly) whatever you'd like.

Feb 12 • Anna Sproul-Latimer

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Come sit with me in the empty theater

A note on ambition as the old world breaks.

Feb 7 • Anna Sproul-Latimer

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January 2026

How to cope with professional humiliation

On shame, survival, and the long work of knowing.

Jan 30 • Anna Sproul-Latimer

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"Why am I seeing that one book everywhere?"

In which I explain why the novel LOST LAMBS is *really* getting so much media coverage.

Jan 24 • Anna Sproul-Latimer

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Sourcebooks, or: How We Survive the Extinction Event (An Unhinged History of American Publishing, Episode 8)

This is a business parable, and psst: if you're a Big 5 executive, I wrote it specifically for 🎶yoo-ooooou.🎶

Jan 15 • Anna Sproul-Latimer

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November 2025

The rest will rise in 2026

On what readers and publishers will want next year (and my own need for rest)

Nov 22, 2025 • Anna Sproul-Latimer

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