Just read this NY article on artificial intelligence (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/are-we-taking-ai-seriously-enough) and am curious if anyone here has any good (and recent) books on AI they'd recommend. I'm interested in anything from how it's impacting work, relationships (chatbot lovers), energy consumption...anything, so long as it's compelling and well-written. How fucked are we lit salon?

Albums of the year? Either something you finally got around listening to, or one that actually came out this year.

Working full-time is cratering my reading time. Drop some great short stories below. I just read Tobias Wolff's short story "Bullet in the Brain" and loved it. Let's have some variety in here.

What are the all time best novels by writers who only published ONE novel in their lifetime? I'll start: Fat City by Leonard Gardner