Against my will I watched part of an AI conference yesterday. Over four hours these were the only notes I took.
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Interesting article reflecting on the state of the avant-garde novel
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I loved Capture by Amanda Lohrey, a book full of big swings and unexpected detours. These are tough times for the novel, and what I find myself admiring most at the moment are those writers willing to take risks with their work.
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The Miles Franklin winner’s plot teeters on the edge of profound silliness, but it’s also a vehicle for making meaning of our lived experiences – and those of others
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These novels look inwards and backwards, explaining our failed liberation and saving what they can as the world hurtles to oblivion.
Amanda Lohrey’s Capture takes place in weird shiny rooms, where humans are studied with curiosity and partial incomprehension.
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Colm Tóibín created some ripples last year when he remarked in an interview that artificial intelligence had doomed creative writing. He dismissed as ‘rubbish’ the idea that a computer could never rep...
With the inexorable rise of AI – in everyday tech, in public and private communications, in our universities – the value and distinctness of the written word is under siege
