
Your Novel Should Be More Like Moby-Dick


We tend to admire writing whose predominant feature is experimentalism, but readability seems to matter to us, too — how great can a piece of writing be if few have the capacity or inclination to finish it?
Laura Hartenberger • What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing
I took a course on the philosophical novel, taught by Maria Němcová Banerjee, an expert on Milan Kundera’s work, and began to think about how novels engage intellectual traditions, how they can make use of and even serve as a form of philosophy.