good ideas seem to require some kind of shade or shadow, they don't survive direct sunlight or brightly-lit places - Dylan O'Sullivan

About Dylan O'Sullivan

Dylan O'Sullivan is an Irish writer and editor based in Cork, Ireland. He holds a BA in English Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an MA in New Media from the University of Amsterdam, where he spent two years working as a writing specialist before going solo. He is Senior Editor at Infinite Books and writes the Substack newsletter Essayful, which has tens of thousands of subscribers and condenses a decade of three-books-per-week reading into long-form essays on writing, books, and culture. His byline has appeared in The Spectator, Areo Magazine, and other publications. He also offers one-on-one writing instruction over Zoom for novelists, academics, and other writers.