My guest on this episode is Sean Michaels. Sean is the author of the novels Us Conductors, which won the Giller Prize and the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize, and The Wagers. His non-fiction has appeared in the Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Pitchfork and The New Yorker, and he is the founder of the pioneering music blog Said the Gramophone. His most recent novel is Do You Remember Being Born? published by Random House Canada in 2023 and a finalist for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize. The New York Times called it “a charming and refreshingly non-dystopian meditation on the duality of literary creation.”
Sean and I talk about his complicated feelings on the collision of AI and literature, given that his most recent novel is about that very thing and even contains passages written by AI, about wanting to change his approach with each book, and about the approach he took to writing his next one, a novel for young readers.
This podcast is produced and hosted by Nathan Whitlock, in partnership with The Walrus.
Music: "simple-hearted thing" by Alex Lukashevsky. Used with permission.
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