“Clarke Seicher is something much more specific and much rarer: a professional book reader who evaluates literature specifically for screen adaptation.”
Peter Rubin
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The Prehistory of A.I. Slop
“Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship.”
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Opposable Thumbs
“On cartoons, colors, ferris wheels, Father’s Day, Prince, coming out, the internet, and me.”
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The Voice That Revealed a Planet
“David Attenborough turned a whisper into one of the most powerful voices in history. At 100, it carries both wonder and warning.”
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What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?
“Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insights in math and beyond.”
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The Hardy Men
“Why is a right-wing press reissuing century-old adolescent mystery novels?”
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What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat
“For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.”