Literary Agent
Into the Funhouse Mirror | Anonymous A.I. Confessional
Former Marketer at a Product Management Firm, Hollywood Screenwriter, Ivy League Literature Professor, Ivy League Postdoc, Literary Agent, Magazine Editor and Writer, New York Times Best-selling Author, News Reporter, PhD Student in History, Prominent Novelist, Psychiatry Fellow, Software Engineer at a Big Five Tech company, Unemployed Anthropologist, Union Organizer
At a May event in Poland, the novelist Olga Tokarczuk revealed that she had asked an A.I. chatbot to suggest songs the protagonists of her latest novel might have heard at a dance set decades ago. And her queries weren’t limited to questions of historical fact: “Often I just ask the machine, ‘Darling, how could we develop this beautifully?’” she continued. “In literary fiction this technology is an advantage of...
Being the Authenticators
Literary Agent
Professional gossip fuels many good lunches. In the past year, it’s always been about the same thing. This is mostly my fault: these days, I have a one-track mind. I sit down, I start asking questions. Broadly speaking, there seems to be an industry-wide understanding that generative A.I. threatens nearly every stage of the publishing process. These threats are legal, contractual, editorial, creative, moral, existential: we fight for language prohibiting...
