Monkeys with Typewriters

Monkeys with Typewriters

Author: Scarlett Thomas

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2017-06-01

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 159376667X

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The ultimate guide to reading and writing fiction, with useful creative exercises and fascinating analyses of great plots—from Plato and Tolstoy to The Matrix and Toy Story. The bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y shows you how to unlock any narrative and create your own. Filled with creative exercises, structures, and charts, this creative writing manual breaks down the fiction writing process and demonstrates that everyone has material to write about—whether they believe it or not. Have you ever had your heart broken, or broken someone else’s heart? Have you ever won an argument but later realized you were wrong? Have you ever tripped in public or spilled wine on someone else’s carpet? Monkeys with Typewriters is an ode to the secret power of stories, and a guide to cracking those powers open. As a bestselling author, Thomas may appear as a naturally gifted writer. However, for Thomas, fiction unlocked itself only once she recognized the importance of an author’s individual experience and one’s willingness to ask questions, not simply provide solutions. She deems the communication of one’s humanity as the key to making a piece relatable, and Thomas does nothing less in her own work. With startling and original insights into how we construct stories, Monkeys with Typewriters is a creative writing book like no other. It will show you how to not only write, but also to a finer degree, how to read.


Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes

Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes

Author: Peter Watts

Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, Incorporated

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13:

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In this collection of short stories from best-selling author Peter Watts, enter strange new worlds that defy the imagination. Journey to the depths of the ocean floor with genetically engineered human beings ... push the boundaries of life with a scientist obsessed with death ... and watch as sentient gaseous entities offer destruction and salvation to the human race. Nine stories make up this stunning new collection from a rising talent in the field of Science Fiction.


The Cult of the Amateur

The Cult of the Amateur

Author: Andrew Keen

Publisher: Currency

Published: 2008-08-12

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0385520816

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Amateur hour has arrived, and the audience is running the show In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider and pundit Andrew Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0 and reveals how it threatens our values, economy, and ultimately the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement. Our most valued cultural institutions, Keen warns—our professional newspapers, magazines, music, and movies—are being overtaken by an avalanche of amateur, user-generated free content. Advertising revenue is being siphoned off by free classified ads on sites like Craigslist; television networks are under attack from free user-generated programming on YouTube and the like; file-sharing and digital piracy have devastated the multibillion-dollar music business and threaten to undermine our movie industry. Worse, Keen claims, our “cut-and-paste” online culture—in which intellectual property is freely swapped, downloaded, remashed, and aggregated—threatens over 200 years of copyright protection and intellectual property rights, robbing artists, authors, journalists, musicians, editors, and producers of the fruits of their creative labors. In today’s self-broadcasting culture, where amateurism is celebrated and anyone with an opinion, however ill-informed, can publish a blog, post a video on YouTube, or change an entry on Wikipedia, the distinction between trained expert and uninformed amateur becomes dangerously blurred. When anonymous bloggers and videographers, unconstrained by professional standards or editorial filters, can alter the public debate and manipulate public opinion, truth becomes a commodity to be bought, sold, packaged, and reinvented. The very anonymity that the Web 2.0 offers calls into question the reliability of the information we receive and creates an environment in which sexual predators and identity thieves can roam free. While no Luddite—Keen pioneered several Internet startups himself—he urges us to consider the consequences of blindly supporting a culture that endorses plagiarism and piracy and that fundamentally weakens traditional media and creative institutions. Offering concrete solutions on how we can reign in the free-wheeling, narcissistic atmosphere that pervades the Web, THE CULT OF THE AMATEUR is a wake-up call to each and every one of us.


An Infinite Number of Monkeys

An Infinite Number of Monkeys

Author: Mike Barnes

Publisher: Linked World

Published: 2013-07-01

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0957629001

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Perplexed by the business value of social media? Not sure how to build an effective information system for your organization? Mike takes us on a safari through the communications jungle, to see how the monkeys that inhabit the modern office can bring out their brilliance through electronic collaboration. In a book which covers topics as diverse as cloud solutions and the mind shift required to turn your organisation into an anarchy (and why you might want to do so), we are shown how the smartest organisations can use the tools of the information age to boost productivity. We learn how information, the life-blood of any organisation and the route to value-creation, happy teams and loyal customers, can be turned from a passive resource to a highly active one. If you want to be a smart monkey, rather than just one of an infinite number of keyboard jockeys, then you need to read this book.


The Kingdom of Infinite Number

The Kingdom of Infinite Number

Author: Bryan Bunch

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2001-09-15

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9780716744474

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A guide to numbers, suggesting ways of looking at individual numbers and their unique properties.


Notes Towards the Complete Works of Shakespeare

Notes Towards the Complete Works of Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher:

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13: 9780954118129

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The text was first produced in Paignton Zoo by a group of Sulawesi Macaque monkeys as their contribution to the exhibition Generator (1 May - 22 June 2002, Spacex Gallery), curated by Spacex and STAR (Science Technology Art Research, University of Plymouth).


A Lover's Complaint

A Lover's Complaint

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Library of Alexandria

Published: 2020-09-28

Total Pages: 15

ISBN-13: 1465587314

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From off a hill whose concave womb re-worded_A plaintful story from a sistering vale,_My spirits to attend this double voice accorded,_And down I laid to list the sad-tun'd tale;_Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale,_Tearing of papers, breaking rings a-twain,_Storming her world with sorrow's wind and rain._ Upon her head a platted hive of straw,_Which fortified her visage from the sun,_Whereon the thought might think sometime it saw_The carcase of a beauty spent and done._Time had not scythed all that youth begun,_Nor youth all quit; but, spite of Heaven's fell rage_Some beauty peeped through lattice of sear'd age._ Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne,_Which on it had conceited characters,_Laund'ring the silken figures in the brine_That season'd woe had pelleted in tears,_And often reading what contents it bears;_As often shrieking undistinguish'd woe,_In clamours of all size, both high and low.


Sammlung

Sammlung

Author: Jorge Luis Borges

Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 9780141183022

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Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. In THE TOTAL LIBRARY, more than 150 of Borges' most brilliant pieces are brought together for the first time in one volume - all in superb new translations. More than a hundred of the pieces have never previously been published in English. THE TOTAL LIBRARY presents Borges at once as a deceptively self-effacing guide to the universe and as the inventor of a universe that is an indispensible guide to Borges


Great Apes

Great Apes

Author: Will Self

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Published: 2012-10-16

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0802193366

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Some people lost their sense of proportion, others their sense of scale, but Simon Dykes, a middle-aged, successful London painter, has lost his sense of perspective in a most disturbing fashion. After a night of routine, pedestrian debauchery, traipsing from toilet to toilet, and imbibing a host of narcotics on the way, Simon wakes up cuddled in his girlfriend’s loving arms. Much to his dismay, however, his girlfriend has turned into a chimpanzee. To add insult to injury, the psychiatric crash team sent to deal with him as he flips his lid is also comprised of chimps. Indeed, the entire city is overrun by clever primates, who, when they are not jostling for position, grooming themselves, or mating some of the females, can be found driving Volvos, hanging out on street corners, and running the world. Nonetheless convinced that he is still a human, Simon is confined to the emergency psychiatric ward of Charing Cross Hospital, where he becomes the patient of Dr. Zack Busner, clinical psychologist, medical doctor, anti-psychiatrist, and former television personality—an expert at the height of his reign as alpha male. As Busner attempts to convince him that “everyone who is fully sentient in this world are chimpanzees,” Simon struggles with the horrifying delusion that he is really a human trapped in a chimp’s body. Written with the same brilliant satiric wit that has distinguised Self’s earlier fiction, Great Apes is a hilarious, often disturbing, and absolutely original take on man’s place in the evolutionary chain. In a strange and twisted tale that recalls Jonathan Swift and Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Will Self’s comic genius is impossible to ignore.