I won’t lie, I read this because of a joke in Archer. Having read it, the joke is brilliant. I love little discoveries like that. Bartleby the Scrivener is a short story about a scrivener (copier of longhand legal documents) who one day upsets the entire order of his workplace when he is asked to do part of his job and responds “I’d prefer not to.” This escalates, with Bartleby preferring not to do more and more, until he is slowly driven out of his entire […]

I write as a hobby. Last month I finished my biggest milestone as a writer, completing my second novel length story. I hope it’ll get published but have no idea if it will, but either way having passed this, I’m taking a break from reading… fun things that I enjoy. Instead, I’m going to read through a huge collection of classic texts whose style I didn’t want polluting my writing. May god have mercy on my soul. Moby Dick is the first on my list […]