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Neal Stephenson: Rewiring the Real
Listen to a conversation with Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, Anathem, and most recently Reamde. Moderated by Alfred E. Guy Jr, director of Yale College Writing Center. Rewiring the Real is a yearlong series of conversations with writers about the interplay of literature, technology and religion, Jennifer Egan on February 7 and Mark Z. Danielewski on April 24….
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Neal Stephenson and the Impossible Desire for the Secular
by Ajay Singh Chaudhary and Abby Kluchin A response to a public talk with Neal Stephenson on December 1, 2011. In his 1960 novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller wrote of the “Albertian Order of Saint Leibowitz,” a monastic order whose members—quite literally—religiously copy the texts of the scientists of a pre-apocalyptic…
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Gary Shteyngart: Rewiring the Real
Listen to a conversation with Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan, and most recently Super Sad True Love Story. Moderated by McKenzie Wark, professor of media and cultural studies at The New School and author of Gamer Theory. Rewiring the Real is a yearlong series of conversations with writers about the interplay of…
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Gary Shteyngart: Rewiring the Real
A conversation with Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Absurdistan, and most recently Super Sad True Love Story. Moderated by McKenzie Wark, professor of media and cultural studies at The New School and author of Gamer Theory. Rewiring the Real is a yearlong series of conversations with writers about the interplay of literature, technology…
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