A Night Twice As Long is out now.
I use human intelligence.
I write my novels using only human intelligence—my own, and that of my dear fellow artists, my agent, my editor.
The human hand in the creation of art and culture is not an inefficiency to be eliminated; it is essential and defining. Every song, story, image, dance, film ever made (before this decade) was imagined and created by humans exclusively, human beings with a real and mortal stake in remaining alive.
I don’t want computers allowed to vote because they don’t need clean air or water or functioning public schools. And I don’t want computers making my culture because they do not have a stake in, or even a comprehension of, human survival. They have never felt physical pain or pleasure. They have never had their hearts broken. They have never eaten a meal. They have never experienced time.
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celebrating the under celebrated moment of finishing a novel
my commencement speech at Rowan University
and the long long journey of making art
