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Writing as code; an AI-augmented bestseller; authors as narrators: Newsletter 29 July 2026
Newsletter 161. Writers have always used text as a sort of code, to program the mind of the reader. Can AI do that better? Plus, deciphering publishing jargon, a college where the instructors are chatbots, troubling questions about the thriller Daggermouth, three people to follow, and three books to read. Prose is code Large Language…