Prize-winning author of "The Cyclone Release," a love story set in the late-90s Silicon Valley tech boom, and the forthcoming "Tristan 4 America," a literary novel with the pulse of a political thriller.
Bruce Overby - Author
"An A.I. can’t mean what it says, and indeed no human writer can mean what an A.I. writes on her behalf—she can agree with it, she can aspire to it, she can hide behind it, but she can’t mean it."
Good piece on the AI-generated award winners controversy.
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Bruce Overby - Author
My god, talk about phoning it in! This scam email is a vicious insult. Note the misspelling in the Subject line, the missing article "The" in the book title (yes, that's part of the title, dumbshit), and the ignorant premise. (What? Goodreads has a search function? Who knew?!) So annoying.
Required reading for any writer who submits to prize competitions.
I've raised funds for Movember for many years, and research projects like this are the reason why. I love seeing the funds addressing every dimension of men's health. Have a look at what they found inside the TikTok feeds of young men.
Three generations of the Boles enjoying dinner out in downtown MV.
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My Review of THE WAYFINDER by Adam Johnson.
After closing the sale of our house and completing the first phase our move, it's great to get back to The Backstory Above in San Francisco, where writing is my sole focus. 👍 #writing #writingcommunity
In my latest newsletter, the nicest thing, an old friend, and the latest on my new book.
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.
Movember researchers have analysed the TikTok viewing histories of 142 young men to go inside the digital worlds shaping masculinity today. Here’s what they found, and why it matters.
Here’s the thing: If you’re a reader—and I expect most of you who still receive this newsletter are—you should always feel free to reach out to an author whose book you’ve read and admired, because receiving messages of appreciation are absolutely the nicest thing that can happen to an author. Last month, I received just such a message out of the blue on Facebook. It came from a connection from the distant past, a fellow student at Branham High School in the 1970s, a friend of a friend, and it absolutely made my month, and possibly my year.
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Writers and readers and even editors have so many misunderstandings about how book prizes work. I’m not going to give anyone a stroke by revealing secrets of the judging room, BUT I want to tell you a whole lot of stuff that you probably don’t know 🧵
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