Plastic Words — From Situationism to Sabremetrics: Experiments for the Novel in the Age of Big Data
<p>Event as part of <em>Plastic Words</em> at Raven Row — a series of public events that mined the contested space between contemporary literature and art.</p> <p>Helen DeWitt on her writing practice, with reference to collaboration, works-in-progress, multilingual texts, the concealed dynamics of commodification, the machinery of cultural capital and the pioneering work of Edward Tufte. With a selection from her personal library.</p> <p>Helen Dewitt is a Berlin-based writer. She is the author of <em>The Last Samurai</em> (Talk Miramax/Chatto & Windus, 2000), <em>Lightning Rods</em> (New Directions, 2011/And Other Stories, 2012), and, with Ilya Gridneff, of <em>Your Name Here</em> (in limbo since 2006).</p>
Authors: Helen DeWitt
Part of: Raven Row Podcast