Elliot Prior

CB Books

[Ella Dorn 唐棠 @elladorn_]

ChatGPT users slowly realising the past 3 years of nonstop hype and generous computation allowances only came in to make them dependent and stupid. Now they must bear the consequences. Schadenfreude...

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

AI is rubbish at history. It just makes stuff up. I gave ChatGBT a go yesterday, thinking it might boost my productivity, and it fed me a completely bogus quote by Pindar. But making sure it WAS bogus took time - so far from boosting my productivity, AI had actively sabotaged it.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Yes.

Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.

Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

[James Marriott @j_amesmarriott]

Probably one of the most prophetic paragraphs of the twentieth century - from Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985)

[Ella Dorn 唐棠 @elladorn_]

New Stateswoman😄

[James Marriott @j_amesmarriott]

I wrote this about how to read and why.

Books remain the best technology ever invented to understand life and the world. There is no alternative.

Every book you read helps you build a richer picture of the entire world.

https://t.co/kDNJ92lwJ6

[Code of the Woosters @wodehousetweets]

"Life is full of sadness, Jeeves."
"Yes, sir."
"Still, there it is."
"Undoubtedly, sir."
"Right ho, then. Switch on the bath."

[Ella Dorn 唐棠 @elladorn_]

Re. book covers, I think the classical oil painting trend is dead in the ground now and feels very cliched but would love to see more very subtle sensuality. And innuendo. Would sell more books! The Nabokov Meredith Frampton ones are genius and have always loved them

[Gordon Wise @gordonwise]

Big congrats to Brian Thornton but also to @ElliotPrior of @CBGBooks for this brilliant initiative with @FaberBooks and @ConversationUK https://t.co/rkJhAGdCGt

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

this is an insanely underrated youtube channel with hundreds of old talks, interviews and documentaries from the world's greatest minds

[Albert Galera @AlbertGalera]

Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017).

[Elliot Prior @ElliotPrior3]

Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man.

[Stan's Account @tristandross]

wallace is a silicon valley-brained techno-darwinist, gromit is a luddite revolutionary

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Fabulous column from the ever thoughtful ⁦@j_amesmarriott⁩

This is why my ultimate ambition is to…own a bookshop. Make non-fiction great again!

https://t.co/DXRrzQ8ymg

[Bernard T. Joy @bernardtjoy]

A Faulkner A Hemingway
sentence sentence

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Alan Bennett, this is it

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

Vengeance for the Medway at last

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

I see that making book festivals unsustainable is going to save the planet https://t.co/X857FUW8r5

[Curtis Brown Books @CBGBooks]

We’ve had a brilliant weekend on the Toon meeting great writers and talking all things agenting at the Newcastle Writing Conference.

Thanks so much for having us @NewWritingNorth!

[Katja Hoyer @hoyer_kat]

A year ago I woke up to terrible news. My father had a stroke. I spent the next few months talking both with and about him in an intensity I hadn't since childhood. He died at Christmas.
I wrote a short obituary to say farewell to my father👇
https://t.co/k00kOuGadx