Photo courtesy of Ava Burzycki To the Victorians, tuberculosis was a deeply romantic ailment to be consumed by. To be rosy-cheeked, sweaty, pale and deteriorated to the point of extreme slenderness from tuberculosis was to be tragically beautiful — especially to artists, writers and other creative intellectuals. There was no greater sign of aestheticism and […]
“A lot of effort is going to be wasted on this”. Updated: May 30, 2023 11:33 am Posted: May 30, 2023 11:32 am Dragon Age writer David Gaider has shared his thoughts on the “lackluster” and “soulless” nature of procedurally generated AI dialogue, while also predicting failure for developers who can’t forsee the technology’s current […]
John Gall Books by Izumi Suzuki, Theodore McCombs, Katherine Heiny and Steven Heighton. Credit…John Gall You might think you’ve read stories like Izumi Suzuki’s. They have a punchy, au courant voice and teem with bad feelings about living with other people, not to mention living at all. Publishing tends to chase hard-edged youth for the […]
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice… Pablo Neruda called it “the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since Don Quixote of Cervantes.” William Kennedy deemed it “the first piece of literature since the Book of […]
My name is Sam, and I read a lot. I enjoy reading. I’m not asking for help or seeking an intervention. I read a wide variety of material and have favorites across many different genres. In the fiction category, I enjoy the Mitch Rapp series, originally by Vince Flynn. In nonfiction, I became a fan […]
Peter James gives readers a unique insight into his thought process when writing his best-selling novels (Image: Allan Hutchings) Best-selling writer Peter James is better known for words than numbers and has confessed he didn’t care much for maths at school. But now the Grace author has teamed up with the charity National Numeracy – […]
