Featuring interviews with authors, actors and academics, Ear Read This creates well-researched critical introductions to vintage and modern classics. Specialties include: Shakespeare, Arthurian literature and books from or about our home city of Edinburgh.
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Featuring interviews with authors, actors and academics, Ear Read This creates well-researched critical introductions to vintage and modern classics. Specialties include: Shakespeare, Arthurian literature and books from or about our home city of Edinburgh.
“Technology is Hijacking Our Dreams”: Alice Thompson on AI, Edinburgh and Sylvia Plath
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8 months ago
“Technology is Hijacking Our Dreams”: Alice Thompson on AI, Edinburgh and Sylvia Plath
S3E98 Today's special episode of Ear Read This was recorded on location in Portobello Library, where Ash interviewed novelist Alice Thompson about artificial intelligence, the effect of Edinburgh on the imagination of a writer and the influence of Sylvia Plath.
For copies of books mentioned in the podcast please visit Salt Publishing: https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/chimera-9781784632540?srsltid=AfmBOoqcVviTu-PSkktp9HMgUK6lSgCGgxLZ48NqRlu-2CDT-vU5Ab0JOr Portobello Bookshop: https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/contributed-by/alice-thompson
And to read my review of Alice's latest novel, Chimera: https://glasgowreviewofbooks.com/2024/02/07/a-shipload-of-symbolic-freight-on-chimera-by-alice-thompson/
Title Music: 'Not Drunk' by The Joy Drops. All other music by Epidemic Sound.
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Featuring interviews with authors, actors and academics, Ear Read This creates well-researched critical introductions to vintage and modern classics. Specialties include: Shakespeare, Arthurian literature and books from or about our home city of Edinburgh.
