The Pharmakon
Sam LeithSam Leith on Reading, Writing, Re-Reading, Rhetoric and Recovery
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Howl, Howl, Howl etc
Most of the beats were not much good. Kerouac, or at least his only work still to be read, On The Road (“that’s not writing: that’s typing”), will be very exciting to you if you’re a teenage boy but it’s grandiose and haphazard and (when it...
On Awakening
You get it too, right? I mean, it’s not just me? That thing where you wake up in the morning and the first thing that hits your mind is full-spectrum horror at being conscious again? Like, waves of dread and regret and all-round heebie-jeeb...
Book Club Turns Ten
In the long-ago days when I was working as the books editor of the Daily Telegraph, I spent a lot of time mocking our then editor Will Lewis, only sometimes behind his back, for his visionary account of the future. He was forever burbling a...
Music to Watch Girls By
In a naked attempt to drive traffic, I thought this week I’d look at a bit of Victorian poetry. Everyone bangs on about Tennyson, but I reckon Browning is the man. It’s a bit like being a cat person or a dog person. You’re Team Tennyson or...
At last, a cool use for AI
But Jeff Noon kinda got there first
I was just writing in the Spectator this week about the latest wave of AI doomers, and en passant I made a far from exhaustive catalogue of a few of the negative things that AI had given us:
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