Writing, reporting, criticising. Mostly in south of the world.
OUTCAST: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World is out now. You can buy it here: https://linktr.ee/oliverbasciano
Oliver Basciano
This is also excellent.
In a Turing Test of sorts, it looks like a 100% AI generated story just won the Commonwealth Prize for the Caribbean region "for its lyrical precision and haunting atmosphere, the story stood out for the confidence and restraint of its voice."
Published in Granta: granta.com/the-serpent-...
Oliver Basciano
Ethan Mollick
The Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s recent comments on her use of AI in ‘preliminary research’ have hit a nerve – and rightly so, says Helen Charman artreview.com/why-olga-tok...
Indexes to fiction are sometimes made, although they are unusual. Philip Bradley considered the topic in his 1989 article for @theindexer.bsky.social www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/epdf/10....
Exciting news! Too Little, Too Hard forthcoming from Peninsula Press in July (preorder✨)
A collection of essays on writing & work, writing & value.
We are proud of this book that looks at the conditions for writers & of book production under neoliberalism.
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edited by Lucy Mercer and Livia Franchini published 9 July 2026 A collection of essays on work and value edited by Lucy Mercer and Livia Franchini In recent years, countless arguments have been made f...
Easy day for Hemingway fans (this also my best score yet on this game).
www.maptap.gg June 8
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Final score: 953
For the Financial Times I spoke Gilberto Gil – icon of Brazilian music and former Minister of Culture – about his life, going to prison during the dictorship, his possible last concerts and Lula's October election chances. www.ft.com/content/f92b...
ArtReview
Society of Indexers
Lucy Mercer
Long works of literature need to have a special index at the back showing the page number when each character was introduced. Otherwise you're thumbing backwards trying to remember who this person is in this huge book you've been reading for weeks.
