New Books Network: „What AI Means for Fiction: A Discussion with Literary Critic Mark McGurl“

Im New Books Network Podcast in der Reihe „America and Beyond“ sprach Mark McGurl am 26.5.2026 über seine Forschung rund um KI und Literatur:

How is the tool of Artificial Intelligence shaping the writing of fiction? Is AI emerging as more than just a potentially handy aid to an author—and, ominously, more like an actual author? I [= Paul Starobin, Host des Podcasts] discuss these ripe questions and others with the literary critic Mark McGurl, professor of English at Stanford.
He is the author of The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing (Harvard University Press, 2009) and Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon (Verso, 2021).
As our conversation shows, McGurl is a nuanced, reasoned voice on an emotive subject that all too readily lends itself to apocalyptic or pollyannaish pronouncements.

Mark McGurl is a Professor of English at Stanford University.

Sein Buch „The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing“ ist als eBook bei uns verfügbar.