October is OLC (original lit crit) month

Some threads I wrote in the first half of October 2026 (too busy in the second half):

Oct 1: Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard, authorial problems and "demiurgy"

Oct 3: Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade. a reading is not simply a decoding

Oct 5: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman, how does it work

Oct 7: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman, politics (cosplaying anarchism, anti-colonialism)

Oct 9: Anarchaos by Curt Clark (Donald Westlake),, a "type" anti-anarchism pulp

Oct 11: Adam Roberts' Rave and Let Die: the SF & Fantasy of 2014, what kind of reviews are useful?

Oct 13: Martha Wells' The Murderbot Diaries, reader identification via neurodivergence

Oct 15: Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human. and a bit more on his appearance as author-as-protagonist.