Archive - An Order to Things

Before I started writing this novel I spent a long time thinking about what it needed to sound like.

Apr 23 • Penn Clark

At some point in the writing of this novel I had to ask myself a question I didn’t want to answer.

Apr 17 • Penn Clark

What Institutions Do

Every institution tells a story about itself.

Apr 9 • Penn Clark

She Had Already Looked Away

There’s a moment early in the novel — a memory, technically, though it doesn’t announce itself as one — where Bishop is sparring with a girl named Andi…

Apr 1 • Penn Clark

March 2026

What Earned Looks Like

There’s a kind of person most of us recognize immediately.

Mar 25 • Penn Clark

There Is an Order to Things

I’ve been working on a novel for a while now, and I’ve reached the point where I need to start telling people it exists.

Mar 19 • Penn Clark

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