My addition to the Granta/A.I. discourse! (comes with this cool animated illo) www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
A Commonwealth Prize-winning short story appears to have been generated with A.I. The response exposes larger fears about honesty, motivation, and expectation in literary writing.
Wrote about therapy and desire www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I found this book to be genuinely restorative! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
look at this Maleficent bombshell queen x.com/ABC/status/2...
Yup! I think, psychoanalyzing my own hatred of AI, that a lot of it stems from an intuition that what people want out of AI (affirmation, therapy, instant gratification) is what they increasingly want (or are being trained to want) out of art and culture
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Katy Waldman
Katy Waldman
Katy Waldman
Katy Waldman
Why read historical fiction? A new novel by the author of “Hamnet” offers one answer: because it’s fun. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
A new book wages a playful war on the strictures of traditional talk therapy. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Two new books consider fawning—a trauma response involving ingratiating, people-pleasing behavior—and how we can unlearn it. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
A Commonwealth Prize-winning short story appears to have been generated with A.I. The response exposes larger fears about honesty, motivation, and expectation in literary writing. www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
I start at the Atlantic next week,
But I got an early start: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
A Commonwealth Prize-winning short story appears to have been generated with A.I. The response exposes larger fears about honesty, motivation, and expectation in literary writing.
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The New Yorker
Jonathan L. Fischer
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In a new book, Adam Phillips wages a playful war on the strictures of traditional talk therapy.
The piece about AI in romance novels (which, I mean, has been very widespread, I don’t think this is surprising) has reminded me of this excellent @xwaldie.bsky.social article of a year ago about romantasy that I think about probably weekly at least:
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Alissa Wilkinson
If you laugh at unfunny jokes, raise your hand too quickly, or can’t decide on your favorite color, you may be exhibiting a fawn response.
Tracy Wolff, the author of the “Crave” series, is being sued for copyright infringement. But romantasy’s reliance on standardized tropes makes proving plot theft tricky.
