HeyJaredThe Lillian Review of Books
A former science publisher with a Classics BA reads classic literature and science fiction.
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Speusippus: A Dialogue (opens the original)
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Editor’s Note: I’m pleased to share the second place winner of the Summer Birthdays Writing Contest. This delightful piece combines the format of a Platonic dialogue with the comedic timing of a Seinfeld episode. Speusippus was Plato’s nephew, Diogenes of Sinope was an outrageous and antisocial Cynic philosopher, and Aristotle needs no introduction. I commend the author on skillfully incorporating several Easter eggs designed to appeal to me specifically; leave a comment if you spot them. Pour y
One Weird Trick for Getting a Literary Agent (opens the original)
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First, read my new cyberespionage love story, “No Such Agency,” out today in Futurist Letters! It might be the best short story I have ever written. At the very least, it was the most enjoyable to write.Huge news from the Lillian Review of Books Editorial Office: I signed with a literary agent! Close readers will recall that I have been querying a literary science fiction nov
And the Winner Is... (opens the original)
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Out of 47 submissions and 7 finalists, I am now ready to announce the winners of the inaugural Lillian Review of Books Summer Birthdays Writing Contest. The winning stories are all very different from each other, but they each speak to parts of my soul that I hold dear.First Place: EMK - “Belfast”Second Place: D. Luscinius - “Speusippus”Third Place: <a href="https://open.substack.
Announcing the Summer Birthdays Writing Contest Finalists (opens the original)
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I am pleased to announce the finalists for the Summer Birthdays Writing Contest, which I created on a whim in June and for which I have been gratified to receive some excellent submissions. There were few guidelines for submissions other than “pander to my tastes.”Out of 47 total submissions, these seven appealed to me most. There were several other strong contenders, and I found it challenging to narrow the field. Most of the submissions were short fiction, along with a sprinkling of essays and
Index (Start Here!) (opens the original)
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Having published 69 posts (nice) and reached 1,360 subscribers, I’ve decided that an index is needed to organize all of the content available to readers of the Lillian Review of Books.First, a brief introduction, if you’re new to my work. I am the eponymous Lillian! I’m a young millennial Jewish-Korean-Chinese-American writer from Chicago, now living in the Washington, DC area with my husband (Mr. Lillian requests anonymity) and a mini Australian Shepherd (Athena requests belly rubs).1 If you wa
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