Tag: Literature
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Books are meant to be thought about.
Welcome back to my TED talk on the dangers of AI in creative fields, a sporadic series that was not meant to be a series at all. But the news continues to report on “exciting and innovative developments in the field of AI” and people continue to be greedy, selfish, and simple, and here I…
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Art v Artist, or the politics of throwing the baby out with the bathwater
I have a note in my phone titled “icebreakers” that contains a list of fun, quirky get-to-know-you questions I’ve collected over the years that I find far more interesting than “how many siblings do you have?” and “what’s your favorite flavor of ice cream?” Among these questions are: What’s your most useless talent?What’s your least…
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Doomsday prophet looks good on me.
After running a lit mag for two years and reading hundreds and hundreds of submissions, I’ve realized that there’s one thing I value in writing above everything else: a unique voice. A voice that doesn’t sound like all the other voices out there, using the same dead metaphors and basic sentence structures and cookie cutter…
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To the stars on the wings of a pig
I named this loose collection of newsletters “Earthbound but Aspiring” mostly because I couldn’t figure out how to not give it a name and still get the site to display correctly, and a little bit because Steinbeck’s pigasus was the first sticker I saw on my coffee table that lent itself to a catchy title.…
Earthbound, But Aspiring 