The Interesting Times #271 (7.1.26)

Issue #271

• Literature as technology. >>Good and Evil and Other Stories.

• Fear, healing, and terrifyingly permeable boundaries. >>Good and Evil and Other Stories.

• Merging autofiction with speculative fiction. >>State of Paradise.

• Feral cats. >>State of Paradise.

• Literary cubist. >>An Afterlife.

• Gertrude Stein’s love language. >>An Afterlife.

• Supernatural talent. >>Kings of this World.

• Recapturing a golden age. >>The Effingers.

• Thirty years to write a novel about one day. >>On the Calculation of Volume.

• Memory and repetition. >>On the Calculation of Volume.

• How to make a time loop endlessly interesting. >>On the Calculation of Volume.

• I have not always gone by this name. >>Call Me Ishmaelle.

• Balancing the public and the private. >>The Catch.

• Straight from the cemetery. >>The Cemetery of Untold Stories.

• I am made entirely of wood. >>The Expansion Project.

• Resisting cliche through prose. >>Telenovela.

• What our relationship with cats reveals about ourselves. >>Cat.

• Why your unread books define you.

• Studies of unmeaning. >>Shadow Ticket.

• Unmapped storylands. >>There Are Rivers in the Sky.

• Japanese culture through rare books.

• Wittgenstein vs. Wittgenstein. >>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. >>Philosophical Investigations.

• Power, not theory. >>Books by Vivek Chibber.

• Entering the public domain.

• The man behind the curtain. >>Don Quixote.

• A.I. is coming for culture.

• Who were the Daughters of Bilitis?

• Everything was against Beatriz Bernal.

• Our film recommendation this week: Cria Cuevrvos.

• Blue-sky thinking.