Richard Powers’ Literary Devices

Richard Powers plays with the notion that all those web pages, IRC logs, and USENET posts are critical mass for an autonomous narative engine –a self organizing Scheherazade who leaves us wanting for the next installment– in his short story ‘Literary Devices’. It’s up on Salon for two weeks.

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