Hacker News with Generative AI: Novels

David Lodge, British novelist who satirized academic life, has died (nytimes.com)
David Lodge, the erudite author of academic comedy and a wide-ranging literary critic, died on Wednesday in Birmingham, England. He was 89.

Obituary, Literature, British Authors, Novels, Satire

94 points by lermontov 10 days ago | 19 comments

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel (thebaffler.com)
Did the novels of the twentieth century accomplish anything? Edwin Frank, who is known for his love of the genre, is convinced they did. In his stylish, selective survey Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, he focuses on the genre’s formal innovations, which take readers’ minds off their somewhat vulgar appetite for suspenseful plot and relatable character and teach them to be satisfied, instead, with something like a diet of single sentences, exquisitely prepared.

Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Criticism

30 points by samclemens 34 days ago | 1 comments

NaNoGenMo 2024 novel from AI captioned stills from the movie A.I (github.com/barnoid)
An A.I. generated novelisation of the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Creative Projects, Novels, Film

15 points by robinwarren 47 days ago | 6 comments

Richard Powers on What We Do to the Earth and What It Does to Us (newyorker.com)
“Playground,” Powers’s new novel, aims to do for the oceans what “The Overstory” did for trees, shaking us out of our human exceptionalism.

Environment, Literature, Novels, Humanity

8 points by mitchbob 126 days ago | 3 comments

The Invincible (video game) based on Stanislaw Lem's novel (wikipedia.org)

Video Games, Science Fiction, Novels

6 points by mgl 201 days ago | 2 comments

Feelings over Facts: Conspiracy Theories and the Internet Novel (clereviewofbooks.com)

Conspiracy Theories, Internet Culture, Novels, Psychology, Literature

4 points by bryanrasmussen 202 days ago | 0 comments

Paul Auster, American author of The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77 (theguardian.com)