This week on Tasteland we are joined by writer and award winning journalist, Cora Lewis. Cora's fiction has appeared at The Yale Review, Joyland Magazine, Epiphany, and elsewhere. She currently works at the Associated Press in New York, and she previously worked at BuzzFeed News. Cora's debut novella, Information Age, comes out on July 15th.
- Pre-order Cora's book Information Age
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Timestamps
00:00 Reading Information Age
04:37 Book design and unique literary devices
11:46 Title inspiration and influences
14:12 The artistry of fragmented writing
20:14 Composing fragments into a finished piece
26:09 You can't write life to scale
34:42 Honing the aesthetics of a novella
37:36 Cora's lack of social media presence
44:58 The duty to represent life accurately
51:25 A clearheaded view of AI
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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers.