As our last list, we wanted to spotlight some of the stellar posts we’ve had during the entire history of Entropy. What follows is a round-up of the most-read articles, stories & essays at Entropy since its founding in March 2014. (Read the rest of the “Best of 2020-2021” lists and read the farewell post from our founder here.)
MOST-READ ARTICLES ON ENTROPY EVER:
1. The WHERE TO SUBMIT List Series (started by Janice Lee, continued by Dennis James Sweeney, and then handled with excellence by Justin Greene)
- Find the Final Where to Submit here.
2. “How Bodybuilding Ruined My Life” by Matthew Kurowski (Creative Nonfiction/Essay) (November 2019)
3. “WOVEN: A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major” by Seo-Young Chu (Creative Nonfiction/Essay) (November 2017)
4. The Small Press Database – A longstanding community resource, an archive of is small press interviews edited by Dennis James Sweeney.
5. “An Interview with Molly Baz” by Danielle Susi (Food) (July 2019)
6. “25 Very Literary Songs” (List / Music) (July 2014)
7. “Autobiography of a Tree” by Annie Wenstrup (Creative Nonfiction) (June 2016)
8. “The Essential Albums of Vaporwave” by Giacomo Lee (Music) (June 2016)
9. The Literacy Narrative Series – edited by Sylvia Chan
- The most popular installment of this series: “Where to Begin: A Literacy Narrative” by Emily O’Neill (January 2018)
10. “ON MARJORIE PERLOFF” by Fred Moten (Culture / Opinion) (December 2015)
11. “D&D with Entropy: Lost Mine of Phandelver – Part One” by Edward J Rathke (Board Games / Conversation) (November 2014)
12. “21 Women Writers From Before 1500 That You’ve Probably Never Heard Of” (List) (July 2014)
13. “If You Hear Something Say Something, Or If You’re Not At The Table You’re On The Menu” by Jen Hofer (Culture / Opinion) (December 2015)
14. “Some Thoughts on The Signal” by Janice Lee (Film / Review) (June 2014)
15. The Poetics of Space Series – written by Janice Lee
- The most popular post in this series: “The Poetics of Space: Outer Space” (October 2014)
16. The 30 Years of Ghibli Series – written by Edward J Rathke
- The most popular posts in this series include: “30 Years of Ghibli: Ponyo,” “30 Years of Ghibli: Laputa: Castle in the Sky,” “30 Years of Ghibli: Princess Mononoke”
17. “20 Literary Maps” (Art / List) (June 2014)
18. The Birds Series – edited by Janice Lee
19. “Spell to Summon the Spirit of Cameron Parsons” by Amanda Yates Garcia (Art / Occult) (December 2014)
20. “Sex in Games, Spectating vs Participating, & Unconventional Spatial Mechanics” by Emily Lee (Video Games) (July 2014)
21. “20 Literary Memes” (List) (May 2014)
22. “25 Novels On Failure” by Janice Lee (List) (July 2014)
23. “Piss Cameron by IIIIIIIIIIIIIII” by Pepe Rojo (Literature / Review) (October 2016)
24. “On Trigger Warnings, Part I: In the Creative Writing Classroom” by M./Maybe Henry Milks (with CAConrad, Jos A. Charles, Andrea Lawlor, Sarah Schulman, Aishah Shadidah Simmons, Anna Joy Springer) (Conversation / Opinion) (April 2014)
25. “We’ve All Always Been Lichens: Donna Haraway, the Cthulhucene, and the Capitalocene” by Leif Haven (Sci Fi / Literature) (September 2014)
26. “Targeted” by Alyse Burnside (Creative Nonfiction / Essay) (April 2020)
27. “On Dust” by Edward J Rathke (Art) (July 2014)
28. “Awaiting Trial” by Olowogboyega Olumuyiwa (Creative Nonfiction / Essay) (April 2020) (October 2018)
29. “Bird Box by Joshua Malerman” by Richard Thomas (Review) (December 2014)
30. “My Body’s Bad Glue” by Carolyn Zaikowski (Creative Nonfiction / Essay) (December 2016)
31. “The House is On Fire: Race, Gentrification, Houston and the de Menil Family Legacy” by John Pluecker (Current Events) (August 2016)
32. “The Etymology of Love” by Meriwether Clarke (Creative Nonfiction / Culture) (February 2016)
33. “BioShock and the Philosophy of Ayn Rand” by Anthony Perrota (Video Games) (July 2017)
34. “16-bit era JRPGs you should have played, but probably didn’t” by Emily Lee (List / Video Games)
35. “Prose as Music: The Use of Language and Story Structure in James Baldwin’s ‘Sonny’s Blues’” by Suzzanna Matthews-Amanzio (Music) (February 2017)
36. “Short Film of the Week: Invention of Love by Andrey Shushkov” by Edward J Rathke (Film / Review) (August 2014)
37. “Petty & Dishonest: My Obsession with Megara from Hercules” by Emily Corwin (Culture / Film) (August 2017)
38. “Writers and Their Margin Notes” (List) (July 2014)
39. “My Father’s English: Changing Language, Changing Class” by Mindy Haskins Rogers (Creative Nonfiction / Essay) (February 2018)
40. “A UFO Book Collecting Primer” by Ben Roylance (List / Occult) (March 2017)
41. “11 Palestinian-American Poets to Read” by Noor Hindi (List) (March 2019)
42. “Woven: The Threat of a Female Body” by Abby Perry (Creative Nonfiction / Essay) (May 2019)
43. “Woven: Leaving Shambhala” by Rebecca Jamieson (Creative Nonfiction / Essay) (June 2020)
44. “Cosmopolitan Moonshine: The SoGoth Populism of the Drive-By Truckers, Part One” by Jason Gubbels (Literature / Music) (April 2014)
45. “Gunsmith Cats on Gun Control, Culture, and Taboo” by Emily Lee (Comics) (March 2015)
46. ON KAWARA IS STILL ALIVE by Leif Haven (Art) (July 2014)
47. “I Was a Twelve Year Old Priestess in the Occult, or so I Was Made to Believe” by Nancy Hightower (Creative Nonfiction) (January 2017)
48. “On the Potent Randomness of Miike’s Visitor Q” by David Rice (Film) (April 2014)
49. “The Books That Have Devastated Us” (List) (September 2015)
50. “Simulacra and Simulation” by Alex Lee (Literature) (October 2014)
We’ve also rounded up some of the most-read posts in 2020-2021 (not including those listed above):
