Tag: literature
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What AI Can Never Do – On Being A Writer When AI Exists
There’s two streams of discussion about AI floating around that I’ve noticed. There’s this realization that almost everyone is using it, because it’s just so easy. Teachers despair that students resort to it almost immediately, and many users share how AI makes writing work emails or whatever so much easier. But then there’s the editors…
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Oh, Libraries!
“Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.” – Saul Bellow, in “Him with His Foot in His Mouth”, from Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories (1984) I once made an acquaintance with a man who had the most amazing library. It wasn’t the biggest library…
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A Thought from Oscar Wilde – On Real Life and Literature
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for. – Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde, I think we agree on something. If I wanted “real life,” what would I read a book for?
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