#tracychevalier — Public Fediverse posts

‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/03/meta-has-stolen-books-authors-to-protest-in-london-against-ai-trained-using-shadow-library #Artificialintelligence(AI) #TracyChevalier #KazuoIshiguro #RichardOsman #DaljitNagra #ValMcDermid #Technology #Computing #KateMosse #Culture #Books #Meta

‘A computer’s joke, on us’: writers respond to the short story written by AI https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/14/writers-respond-story-written-by-ai-sam-altman-chat-gpt-tracy-chevalier-kamila-shamsie-david-baddiel #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Creativewriting #TracyChevalier #KamilaShamsie #DavidBaddiel #Technology #Computing #ChatGPT #Culture #Fiction #OpenAI #Books

Tracy Chevalier: ‘Woolf’s The Waves will be like medicine – I won’t like it, but it will do me good’ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/22/tracy-chevalier-woolfs-the-waves-will-be-like-medicine-i-wont-like-it-but-it-will-do-me-good #TracyChevalier #Culture #Fiction #Books

Reading #girlwithapearlearring (finally) and I am so impressed with the writing style of #TracyChevalier.
She paints a picture with her simple sentences that floats you through the book.
Her characters build the story themselves simply by looking at each other in a certain way. It captures my attention on every page with effortless reading, and now and then one sentence will stand out as if it is illuminated on the page - how she does this I do not know. These sentences outline hints towards the end outcome for the main character so you can glide through the book, absorbing it rather than studying it, like a boat tour around a beautiful island.
It’s a simple - clever book which has reminded me exactly why I love to read.
(I usually read sci fi, fantasy and historical fiction)

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