- Jonny Diamond shows readers what happens when you give an AI text-generator some o the greatest lines in literature. Bizarrely, Jane Austen messes up an AI more than James Joyce. (LitHub)
- Christine Ro reveals that Urban Dictionary is a lot more important than its reputation leads us to believe. (Daily JSTOR)
- N.K. Jemisin (one of my favorite writers) talks world-building. (WIRED)
- Giovanna Centeno talks about life as a bilingual reader. (Book Riot)
- Gal Koplewitz discusses Amos Oz and the peculiar challenges of writing in Hebrew. (The New Yorker)
- Melissa Pelletier has positive affirmations for the heroines of Gothic Victorian novels. (McSweeney’s)
- Sarah Brouillette explains UNESCO Cities of Literature. I really wish I could live in a City of Literature, but I’ll have to content myself with visiting. (LitHub)
- The 2018 VIDA count is here!
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