“Learning that one’s job might soon be eliminated by the emergence of an overhyped new technology puts one in good company.”
Literature
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A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending
“Glenn Horowitz built a fortune selling the archives of writers such as Vladimir Nabokov and Alice Walker. Then a rock star pressed charges.”
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Against Rereading
“For those who do not reread, a book is like a little life. When it ends, it dies—or it lives on, imperfectly and embellished, in your memories.”
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I Am Laura Kipnis-Bot, and I Will Make Reading Sexy and Tragic Again
“Even if it was technically feasible and Dubuque was legit, did I really want to be involved in this?”
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Salman Rushdie: “The world has abandoned realism”
“’Words are the only victors,’ Rushdie wrote in his last novel, ‘Victory City.'”
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Percival Everett Can’t Say What His Novels Mean
“The author of ‘Erasure’ is renowned for his satires of genre, identity, and America. But his great target may be language itself.”
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Recognizing the Stranger
“What in fiction is enjoyable and beautiful is often terrifying in real life.”
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Days of the Jackal
How Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business.
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Poets in the Machine
Why does the literary world still hold online writing at arm’s length?
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Confessions of a Viral AI Writer
“Despite my success with AI-generated stories, I’m not sure they are good for writers—or writing itself.”