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In their column, “Is student use of generative AI cheating? The answer is complicated,” Bruce Fraser and Sid Dobrin are right to observe that the question of cheating in the title is less interesting than the question of whether and how generative AI should be integrated into education. Caroline Hovanec [ Courtesy of Caroline Hovanec ] Unfortunately, that’s about as far as I can agree with them.
I occupy three precarious categories: South Florida resident, humanities professor, and cyclist. The last, however, is a condition afforded to me because of my membership in an elite professional class. Consequently, I enjoy a degree of flexibility (of schedule and geography) that many who are displaced from urban cores—through the mechanisms of gentrification, unchecked suburbanization, and feckless development—do not.
Does fiction require anonymity? And if an author chooses to draw heavily from their own life, and the lives of those they know and love, how should a reader judge such intimate and intoxicating but reckless honesty? The Norwegian journalist Tonje Aursland, for example, was formerly married to literary sensation Karl Ove Knausgaard. She read about her then husband’s ongoing affair, which would ultimately end their marriage, along with the rest of Norway in her husband’s novel.
Over the weekend, the New Yorker ran a 1,000-word paragraph, penned by autobiographer Karl Ove Knausgaard, impugning the honor of dogs. The magazine promoted the piece with the incendiary tweet, “Has a single good author ever owned a dog?” Yes, the good people of Twitter answered in anguished chorus; Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Zadie Smith, and dozens of other good authors have been dog people.
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