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Alzheimer’s Early Tell: The language of authors who suffered from dementia has a story for the rest of us.

Sep 29, 2016

In the early 1990s, Iris Murdoch was writing a new novel, as she’d done 25 times before in her life. But this time something was terribly off. Her protagonist, Jackson, an English manservant who has a mysterious effect on a circle of friends, once me

The Millions

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How Many Errorrs Are in This Essay?

Aug 24, 2022

Literature's history is a history of mistakes, errors, misapprehensions, simple typos. The post How Many Errorrs Are in This Essay? appeared first on The Millions.

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Meet the Father of Digital Life: This maverick forerunner of artificial life and animation remains largely unknown.

Jun 12, 2014

In 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other, Barricelli hovered over one of the world’s earliest and most influential computers, th

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The Computer Maverick Who Modeled the Evolution of Life

Jul 11, 2019

In 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other, Barricelli hovered over one of the world’s earliest and most influential computers, th

The Critic Magazine

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Derrida Deconstructed

Oct 29, 2020

SAY WHAT YOU LIKE about Jacques Derrida, he was one cool looking dude. As a boy, the young Jackie (he was christened for the star of Chaplin’s The Kid, Jackie Coogan) wore a straw boater and sang along with Maurice Chevalier records. As a man, with h

Poets & Writers

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The Time Is Now

Feb 9, 2017

Suggested Reading: Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who Shaped Art From Trauma (Beacon Press, February 2017) by Melanie Brooks After attempting to write about her father’s death from AIDS in 1985, author Melanie Brooks was left with diffic

The Christian Science Monitor

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Must an Author’s Wishes Be Honored After Death?

Oct 24, 2017

Authors once turned to fire to be rid of writing they didn’t want the world to read. Terry Pratchett took a slightly more creative – and modern – route. He ordered that his hard drive be crushed by a steamroller after his death.

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How The Universe Works

Feb 23, 2023

Irven M Resnick & Kenneth F Kitchell Jr Reaktion Books 2022 Hb, 224pp, £16.95, ISBN 9781789145137 The mediæval literary world was plagued with self-effacing authors. Rather than proudly write their own name on the title pages of their manuscripts, th

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Iris Murdoch and the Limits of Language

Sep 8, 2017

Words simply don’t do justice to any memory, argument, or work of fiction concocted in the mind. Language is an inadequate but necessary solution for addressing our disparate versions of reality. The post Iris Murdoch and the Limits of Language appea

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On Isolation and Literature

Apr 30, 2020

Isolation is not a medium for literature, nor is it a method of creating literature; it is the very substance of literature itself. The post On Isolation and Literature appeared first on The Millions.