The funny thing about reading the first few pages of a book is that the outcome can sometimes be the opposite of what you’d expect.

This is a collection of essays or meditations on looking and seeing or, fundamentally, visibility.

A strange sort of book, this. A mixture, it seems to me, of fiction and autobiography.

I have enjoyed reading the C Comics, especially the mock advertisements and the parodies of famous comic book characters like Nancy, Archie and Veronica.

I am not familiar with Irish myths and tales, so this beautiful collection of stories is quite an eye-opener.

Before I read a book properly, especially if it has only just arrived, I like to get its measure. I look it up and down. Are its shoes polished?

. I recently asked three AI programs to review my latest book, which is called The Reconstructed Muse: AI and the Renaissance of Literature.

I’ve been reading Phillipa K. Chong’s “Inside the Critics’ Circle”, in which she attempts to discover the process by which books get reviewed. It’s a very interesting read. I haven’t finished it yet, so am not in a position to review it as such, but I was struck by the extract cited here.

When I decided that I would like to create a flyer for my forthcoming creative writing courses, and that I would like it to have the look of a zine, it made sense to me to enlist the services of artificial intelligence..

An article caught my eye recently. Entitled “The sneaky trick for solving problems without answering them”, Jacob Aron describes a mathematical approach to solving a publem without actually doing anything about it. What’s this got to do with creative writing?

I’ve just started reading this, and it has me gripped already. I like the fact that it doesn’t mess about: no long-winded descriptions…