CS 587: The Idea File

April 2, 2010

On the novel. The novel is my focus in my graduate work. Creatively, it's the form I prefer to write, and as we move the novel into the digital era, I am curious as to what changes, if any, the act of reading a novel will take.

Author Jonathan Lehrer just posted a great article to his blog titled "Attention and Intelligence." Read it here. Lehrer suggests via a new bit of research on mice and also on a piece he wrote recently for The New Yorker that "being smart is not about...