Daniel Allen Cox

I Felt the End Before It Came / @guardian @globeandmail @TheBrooklynRail @ElectricLit @literaryhub @malahatreview @geistmagazine @The_Rumpus / He/him

[Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox]

Today I'm emotional and stunned: I never dreamt my book would be reviewed in @washingtonpost, but it happened, and here it is.

So thankful for the breathtaking ways that @courtneytenz writes into the entanglements of belief and finds the nuances.

https://t.co/r04gyxnfrv

[Miguel Antonio @messengerbagboy]

My Years-Long Fight to Say “They”

Over and over again, I would use the pronoun in my writing. Over and over again, editors would try to remove it.
https://t.co/G0CoaJYUBM

[𝕭𝖎𝖗𝖉𝖞 𝖛𝖘 𝕭𝖆𝖇𝖞𝖑𝖔𝖓 @mary_got_grace]

don't use ai to write, use your childhood trauma like the rest of us

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Teenagers have started calling AI art "boomer art" and consider it cringe, and YouTubers have stopped using AI-generated thumbnails because teenagers find them cringe and won't click on them. I honestly couldn't be happier.

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

there was something beautiful about library checkout cards because you could literally see the history of human curiosity attached to a book. like a tiny ghost trail of strangers connected by the same story.

[Amanda Fortini @amandafortini]

If you’re using AI to write, why are you even a writer? Like why bother? The pleasure, the pain, the mystery, the magic, the torture and the exhilaration and euphoria on the other side of the torture—it’s all in the process and cannot exist independent of it.

[Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox]

@JoyceCarolOates So true. In the craft book Refuse to be Done, Matt Bell suggests writing longhand then retyping from memory, for a second layer of discovery.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

true. writing is akin to doodling & doodling is a kind of dreaming. when "doodling" we discover what the pen creates, not what we've determined to compose; I have the feeling that old-fashioned doodling no longer exists in the age of empowered devices.
(true for me, who'd covered entire pages in elaborate doodles as a student.)

[Johannes Schmitthenner @richten_nach]

Eine Literaturnobelpreisträgerin nutzt KI, eine Autorin des Buches "The Future of Truth" verwendet dutzende halluzinierte Zitate, halbe Timeline hier ist voll mit Slop. Is this how it ends?

[Pengu @Penguxn]

if you think uncomfortable conversations are hard wait until you see the results of not having them

[Samuel Miller McDonald @sjmmcd]

The Granta award judge that awarded obviously AI-generated drivel a prestigious prize and Olga Tokarczuk, who admitted to writing her next novel with AI, both having investments in AI companies continues to hit home that AI is just an ugly, corrosive, grubby scam and nothing more

[Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox]

@nabeelqu @GrantaMag Off topic, but nonetheless surprising behavior at dream journals where we think certain things wouldn't or couldn't happen:

https://t.co/k1PsP0PWIu

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

why would anyone knowingly read a book produced by a machine or watch a movie mechanically-made when there are so any excellent books & movies already in existence? most serious works of art are individual & a bit quirky; we care for them because they are imperfect in unpredictable ways. an AI Bob Dylan song would be an amalgam of the Dylan songs already in existence which are there to be experienced without AI.

[Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox]

@MattZeitlin I wrote about MJ and 80s Satanic Panic here:

https://t.co/6fts5a4Yhp

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

literacy is more than reading comprehension; it is also understanding how another person (the author) is inviting you (perhaps challenging you) to imagine another experience, perspective, life.

[Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox]

I realized with a pleasant shock, when writing my essay for @thenation about the magazines that would or wouldn't let me use the singular "they", that @JoyceCarolOates had written for nearly all of them.

She really is the nexus of the literary world.

https://t.co/k1PsP0PWIu

[The Nation @thenation]

This is how queerness and gender nonconformity wind up being controlled in elite literary circles. If you can’t use someone’s pronoun, they can’t be written about. https://t.co/82npeOatkx

[Christopher Shay @ChrisBurkeShay]

Jasper Lo writes about being a fact checker at the New Yorker and then being illegally fired by Conde Nast. It captures much of what's good about this industry—the care for words, truth; the worker solidarity—and so so much of what's fucked up about it. https://t.co/eNJ6duL6Mv

[Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox]

The Threepenny Review, Conjunctions, The Malahat Review, and I'm sure others. Of course @nytimes, which comes up in my piece in different contexts.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

Now, frittering away time on Twitter.

[Daniel Allen Cox @danielallencox]

@TheLincoln Here's my piece that appears alongside yours in the @lithub roundup!