Here’s Stephenson, from his Substack: Speaking of the effects of technology on individuals and society as a whole, Marshall McLuhan wrote that every augmentation is… Read More »Neal Stephenson on augmentation as amputation
Miss Bowlware taught them History of the English-Speaking Peoples, starting with the Romans at Londinium and careening through the Norman Conquest, Magna Carta, Wars of… Read More »Neal Stephenson on Victorian literature
The Ezra Klein Show: Timothy Snyder on Ukraine Good on history and the context for what’s going on in Ukraine. Great on language and the… Read More »Recommendation: Two Conversations
On Speaking [My literary agent] Darhansoff & Verrill… handles speaking requests. I almost never accept these. When I do, I charge a lot of money,… Read More »Neal Stephenson on Speaking Arrangements; Art and Artists; Correspondence and Productive Writing