If a novel was good, would you care if it was created by artificial intelligence?
My immediate thought just on reading the headline was, there are certain critics, I fear, who would be more inclined to praise a novel written by an AI than one written by a woman or indeed anyone who was not a DWM or eventually aspiring to that category.
My second ( Read more... )

There is a weekly feature in the Guardian Saturday Review, The books that made me ... , in which A Writer answers various book-related questions, including:
The book I wish I’d written
And that is a question that has me going 'huh?'
Because there are books that I am extremely glad are out there in the world, but I don't want to have written them ( Read more... )

Further to my comments on a post by
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Okay, there is the SRS CANON as taught in EngLit classes.

Then there are books which are still read and enjoyed and may never have been (or only temporarily) out of print since they first appeared, but somehow do not make it into that league - if they do get set on courses it will be as Proletarian Novel (Tressell, The Ragged-Trousered ( Read more... )

Apparently there is a certain amount of O NOEZ about standup comedians not writing their own jokes.

And, okay, this is not a form of endeavour I follow myself.

But I cannot help thinking of comparisons, and that there may well be individuals who can come up with jokes but are just hopeless at the telling of them (quite apart from the issue of ( Read more... )

Maybe I think this coz I is an archivist - this week I was doing some testing of a digital archive project and was deeply unimpressed that the contextual information for the image being tested was just the not very helpful file title - no indication of the larger collection or part of same that it came from. Hope that gets fixed during beta-testing ( Read more... )

Further to earlier post about higher codswallop article on fanfic in The Guardian, in which a young man mansplains fanfic, and the subsequent discussion (with codfishing) -

Sometimes it occurs to me that people assume that 'originality' means 'created absolutely from scratch with no input from anything else whatsoever', owing nothing to nobody ( Read more... )