clayton purdom
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· Sep 27
Weird Nonfiction | Los Angeles Review of Books
Clayton Purdum situates nonfictional works designed “with the intention of upsetting, disturbing, or confusing the audience,” in an essay from the LARB Quarterly issue no. 42, “Gossip.”
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last year i wrote an essay that i'd been working on intermittently for years, and today it finally went live on the los angeles review of books. it's probably my favorite thing i've ever written, and it'd mean a lot if you'd give it a read.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/weir...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/weir...
i wrote about Halo, friendship, jealousy, midlife crises, and big boys with my old friend Eric (not on bsky) for @kotaku.com kotaku.com/boys-dont-di...
Boys Don't Die: A Halo Retrospective - Kotaku
'No, I think we're just getting started.'
kotaku.com
September 25, 2026 at 3:43 PM
i wrote about Halo, friendship, jealousy, midlife crises, and big boys with my old friend Eric (not on bsky) for @kotaku.com kotaku.com/boys-dont-di...
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If you read one thing about Halo this week I think it should be this
Boys Don't Die: A Halo Retrospective - Kotaku
'No, I think we're just getting started.'
kotaku.com
September 24, 2026 at 4:07 PM
If you read one thing about Halo this week I think it should be this
they called me out of retirement for this kotaku.com/boys-dont-di...
Boys Don't Die: A Halo Retrospective - Kotaku
'No, I think we're just getting started.'
kotaku.com
September 24, 2026 at 8:02 PM
they called me out of retirement for this kotaku.com/boys-dont-di...
in light of miami vice redux news, required to repost my michael mann article for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
of course he's recutting the movie. he will never stop clocking in
lareviewofbooks.org/article/mann...
of course he's recutting the movie. he will never stop clocking in
lareviewofbooks.org/article/mann...
Mann Men | Los Angeles Review of Books
Clayton Purdom explores an oeuvre of men in crisis in an essay from the LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure.”
lareviewofbooks.org
September 10, 2026 at 4:05 PM
in light of miami vice redux news, required to repost my michael mann article for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
of course he's recutting the movie. he will never stop clocking in
lareviewofbooks.org/article/mann...
of course he's recutting the movie. he will never stop clocking in
lareviewofbooks.org/article/mann...
i hate the idea that "things suck now." cool and interesting things will always exist. finding them isn't supposed to be easy.
so me and the team @ ex research made a trend report about it.
COOL IS A SKILL ISSUE
docs.google.com/presentation...
so me and the team @ ex research made a trend report about it.
COOL IS A SKILL ISSUE
docs.google.com/presentation...
EX Research_Cool Is A Skill Issue
COOL IS A SKILL ISSUE A trend report by EX Research Q3 2026
docs.google.com
September 10, 2026 at 3:35 PM
i hate the idea that "things suck now." cool and interesting things will always exist. finding them isn't supposed to be easy.
so me and the team @ ex research made a trend report about it.
COOL IS A SKILL ISSUE
docs.google.com/presentation...
so me and the team @ ex research made a trend report about it.
COOL IS A SKILL ISSUE
docs.google.com/presentation...
editors are falling all over themselves for me to explain why drake needed to release three records, actually
May 15, 2026 at 6:59 PM
editors are falling all over themselves for me to explain why drake needed to release three records, actually
ICYMI: I fed 200,000 words of my writing into an LLM and had it write about the process of becoming me. Then I kept trying to do more with it, failed, went insane, and had the LLM write about that. 200wordsaboutculture.substack.com/p/60000-word...
60,000+ words about Clayton Purdom
This is my last one, I promise
200wordsaboutculture.substack.com
March 20, 2026 at 5:58 PM
ICYMI: I fed 200,000 words of my writing into an LLM and had it write about the process of becoming me. Then I kept trying to do more with it, failed, went insane, and had the LLM write about that. 200wordsaboutculture.substack.com/p/60000-word...
I fed 200,000 words of my own writing into an LLM and had it write about the process of adopting my voice _in_ my voice. At once the most self-indulgent thing I’ve ever created and an exercise in ego death. Link below
March 18, 2026 at 1:27 PM
I fed 200,000 words of my own writing into an LLM and had it write about the process of adopting my voice _in_ my voice. At once the most self-indulgent thing I’ve ever created and an exercise in ego death. Link below
it's been 10 years since bowie died -- i still think my piece on blackstar holds up www.killscreen.com/blackstar-wo...
Blackstar won't tell you how to die
I spent a lot of time this week listening to “Subterraneans,” the last song on 1977’s Low, by David Bowie. I didn’t know what else to do. Like a lot of other people, I had a feeling—this response to d...
www.killscreen.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:57 PM
it's been 10 years since bowie died -- i still think my piece on blackstar holds up www.killscreen.com/blackstar-wo...
my sincere hope is that the new website for exresearch.co makes you think your computer is broken
EX Research
A research report about games, music, the internet, and everything in between.
exresearch.co
January 9, 2026 at 5:30 PM
my sincere hope is that the new website for exresearch.co makes you think your computer is broken
i wrote 200 words about one battle after another
September 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
i wrote 200 words about one battle after another
clearing out a backlog of takes now that i've got childcare again. here's 198 words about the materialists
September 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
clearing out a backlog of takes now that i've got childcare again. here's 198 words about the materialists
i wrote 200 words about donkey kong bananza
September 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
i wrote 200 words about donkey kong bananza
i wrote 199 words about the last samurai (not the tom cruise movie)
August 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
i wrote 199 words about the last samurai (not the tom cruise movie)
i wrote 196 words about eddington
August 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
i wrote 196 words about eddington
forgot to say i wrote 199 words about burial
August 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
forgot to say i wrote 199 words about burial
i wrote 198 words about seven samurai
August 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
i wrote 198 words about seven samurai
i wrote 200 words about TAFS
August 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
i wrote 200 words about TAFS
i wrote 189 words about rashomon
August 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
i wrote 189 words about rashomon
i wrote 195 words about kpop demon hunters
July 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
i wrote 195 words about kpop demon hunters
i wrote 195 words about the clipse
July 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
i wrote 195 words about the clipse
i wrote 198 word about mario kart world
July 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i wrote 198 word about mario kart world
i wrote 198 words about 28 years later
July 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
i wrote 198 words about 28 years later
i wrote 199 words about moby dick
July 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
i wrote 199 words about moby dick
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By now you've probably heard the news: Polygon has been sold to Valnet and I, along with most of my wonderful colleagues, have been laid off.
That said, I'm now open to new opportunities! If you've enjoyed my work and would like to work together in any capacity, please feel to hit me up via my DMs!
That said, I'm now open to new opportunities! If you've enjoyed my work and would like to work together in any capacity, please feel to hit me up via my DMs!
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media.tenor.com
May 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
By now you've probably heard the news: Polygon has been sold to Valnet and I, along with most of my wonderful colleagues, have been laid off.
That said, I'm now open to new opportunities! If you've enjoyed my work and would like to work together in any capacity, please feel to hit me up via my DMs!
That said, I'm now open to new opportunities! If you've enjoyed my work and would like to work together in any capacity, please feel to hit me up via my DMs!