As Teju Cole demonstrated with his real-time ghazals (one, two, and three) this past week, Twitter is a medium ripe for linguistic experimentation. And far from being the exclusive domain of human beings, the social network can also produce “found poetry” at the behest of computer programs – a practice I recently wrote about for The Bygone Bureau. But who’s behind these Twitter bots? Over at The Boston Globe, they check in with Darius Kazemi, the 30-year-old programmer who’s made some of the most-loved accounts out there.
Twitter’s Poetics, Twitter’s Bots
Just Kids Playlist
As Rachel Syme points out, the person who made the Spotify playlist of every song mentioned in Patti Smith’s Just Kids deserves a free drink or two.
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“I’ve set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling”
Fifty Shades of Grey author E L James has two more books up her sleeve, USA Today reports. One is another erotic novel, but the other is intended for young adults.
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Meghan O’Rourke on Anne Carson’s Nox
At The New Yorker, Meghan O’Rourke lyrically reviews Anne Carson’s latest work Nox: “Grief is paradoxical … The literature of mourning enacts that dilemma; its solace is mainly in the ritual of remembering the dead and then saying, There is no solace and also, This has been going on a long time.”
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In Memory of Vic Chesnutt
NPR’s Terry Gross remembers Vic Chesnutt with Michael Stipe and Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto. Chesnutt, one of the musical gems to emerge from indie-rock mecca Athens, Georgia, in the past twenty years, died on Christmas day.
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A Way Out of No Way
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor reviews Saidiya Hartman's Wayward Crossings, Beautiful Experiments, "a radical, genre-defying examination of the lives of 'ordinary' young Black women."
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I don’t fangirl over any author like I fangirl over Teju Cole. So dreamy.
I don’t fanguy over any botmaker like I fanguy over Darius. Except maybe @samplereality.