AI and publishing, terrible record covers, Fred D'Aguiar
Nicola Solomon and Sean Michaels discuss AI and publishing, Niall Hodson and Jude Rogers explore bad album covers, and poet Fred D'Aguiar on his latest collection.
Michael Connelly is one of several authors suing the tech company OpenAI for "theft" of his work. Nicola Solomon, outgoing Society of Authors CEO, and Sean Michaels, one of the first novelists to use AI, discuss the challenges and opportunities facing writers on the cusp of a new technological era.
What makes a great piece of terrible album artwork? The Williamson Gallery & Museum in Birkenhead is currently displaying nearly 500 albums which have been collected over a seven year period by Steve Goldman from record fairs and online market places as part of their βWorst Record Coversβ exhibition. Samira is joined by the exhibition curator Niall Hodson and the writer, journalist and author of βThe Sound of Being Humanβ Jude Rogers.
The most famous event in Los Angeles in 1852 was a horse race. Fortunes were won and lost on Pio Pico's horse Sarco and Jose Sepulveda's Black Swan. Widespread press reports included the horsesβ names and the names of their owners - but not the name of the black jockey who won. Apart from his colour, we know nothing about him. Fred DβAguiar talks to Samira Ahmed about his latest collection of poems, 'For the Unnamed', in which he recovers and re-imagines the story, giving the black jockey the presence today he was denied in his lifetime.
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