Issue 10: can we still read?
Previously, the bevy of bright-screened distractions which Silicon Valley cooked up have carried only the ‘mere’ risk of distraction. However, LLM usage presents something qualitatively different.
Issue 9: Lilac Cabs and Voice Matching
'... to read carefully, and not to be satisfied with a superficial understanding of a book.'
Issue 8: rewriting and agency
'My heavenly favourite, I'll come straight out with it: I should have taken a paring knife and incised you like a sore in a claw horn...'
Issue 7: Embers
Issue 6: more Wolfe and poisonous books
Rock, reel, smash, and swerve; hit it, hit it, on the curve; steady, steady, does the trick, keep her steady as a stick; eat the earth, eat the earth, slam and slug and beat the earth, and let her whir-r, and let her pur-r, at eighty per-r!
Issue 5: The other Wolfe
'...a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces.' So begins Look Homeward, Angel – in the view of some, the forgotten masterpiece of modernist literature.