The Rise of the Machines

Making Indispensable Art in the AI Era

Hello, and a quick preamble:

First of all, as implied by the fact of this email, I am relaunching IN THE ABSENCE OF, a Substack devoted mostly to matters of writing craft, that will come out once every three weeks on Friday. My hope is that it feels like an interesting little thing at the outset of your weekend. But if it just feels like one more loathso…