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Podcast
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Indie Presses and the Literary Ecosystem: Meg Reid and Will Evans
“The literary ecosystem is for every reader of every age. It is for every writer of every style.”
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Andrea Armstrong on Incarcerated People
“Every single one of my articles has come from a question or a situation or a conversation with somebody who was either currently incarcerated or had been incarcerated.”
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Rebecca Solnit on George Orwell
“We need food, clothing, shelter, and healthcare, but we deserve that unquantifiable, experiential thing that is education, culture, leisure, beauty, nature.”
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Why Are You in Bed? Why Are You Drinking? Colm Tóibín and Joseph Rezek in Conversation
“The novel loves things. It loves money. It loves disappointment.”
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The Romance of Recovery: Ben Bateman Talks to Shola von Reinhold
“I don’t really want to write about theory, but it just keeps coming up again and again. It’s inescapable.”
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The Work of Inhabiting a Role: Charles Yu Speaks to Chris Fan
“I am paralyzed by the infinite degrees of freedom that you start out with, and so constraints can be freeing. To say, I can start here—I’m writing a story about time travel.”
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In the Editing Room with Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans
“I’m aware, as I’m writing, that I’m changing camera angles.”
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Promises Unkept: Damon Galgut and Andrew van der Vlies
“A lot of people have been pushed a little closer to the margins.”
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On Being Unmoored: Chang-rae Lee Charts Fiction with Anne Anlin Cheng
“If you’re going to write in a worthwhile way about something, you have to really understand why you care.”
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Episode 5: Data & Racial Capitalism
How have data-centric systems perpetuated racial capitalism, and how have different communities, particularly in the global South, resisted this datafication?
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Episode 4: Data & Infrastructure
Whose values get embedded into the algorithms that increasingly govern our lives? How are these data infrastructures complicating what it means to be human?
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Episode 3: Data & Automation
What harms can result from AI and automation, and how might we address and prevent those harms?
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Episode 2: Data & Labor
How has data been used to organize labor, and how do we make ourselves visible to data-centric systems?
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Episode 1: Data & Humanity
How do people show up in data, and what are some of the inequalities that can result from data collection?
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Trailer: Becoming Data
How long has human life been quantified as data, and in what contexts? What are some major implications of humanity being measured as data?
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Reading Resources: The Novel
A resource for reading about, teaching, and discussing the novel as an artistic and cultural form.
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Episode 5: Novels & Medicine
How can reading novels affect the way doctors and patients communicate?
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Episode 4: Novels & Catastrophe
How do novels help us see the present in a broader historical perspective?
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Episode 3: Novels & Intimacy
How can novels expand our understanding of sex and intimacy in the digital age?
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Episode 2: Novels & Political Consciousness
How does reading novels affect our understanding of the power dynamics that shape our lives?
