YA Not Just for YA Readers
True, no one wants to turn anyone away from reading. But YA is still a developmental level of reading, and there are coming-of-age novels, as Jiordan Castle says, that aspire and succeed to more.
Reach
A poem of ecology, memory, grief, and reconciliations, adapted from the recent album, Creative Reading Vol 2.
Umberto Eco’s Favorite Books
Wow, I mean, we are what we read, right?
AI and Literary Theory?
An unsettling argument from Chinese literature professor Nie Zhenzhao: that in this article, AI can replace poets but more, that it can be read free of subjectivity and “personal bias.” His position is elaborated more in this link which describes his Ethical Literary Criticism. Do I sense a political double-speak between these two articles? https://sfs.ustb.edu.cn/en/mediacenter/bulletins/2020-10-13/223.html
A Review of Tanizaki’s “In Praise of Shadows”
I’m always keen to read this book, and this recent review by M. A. Orthofer of Literary Saloon reminds me to pick it up again!
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