Story of the Week A preview of a new Pushkin audiobook: Death Of An Author

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What happens when artificial intelligence comes for the novelists? Death of an Author is a groundbreaking, suspenseful experiment in the meta world of man meets machine. A gripping mystery that is 95% written by AI, aka “Aidan Marchine,” and 5% by journalist Stephen Marche, who skillfully crafted the story outline and machine prompts. The project is publishing on 5/9/23.

The Host

Joel Stein

Joel Stein, host of the Story of the Week podcast, has been a journalist for 25 years, including 20 at Time magazine where he wrote 22 cover stories. Stein has…