Kenneth Goldsmith at the Brooklyn Book Festival

Rounding out our listing of Columbia University Press authors at the Brooklyn Book Festival is Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age. Goldsmith will be on the following panel at 1:00 pm

Art in the Mix: Inspiration, Reception and How Art Makes Meaning

This panel explores the relationship between creative inspiration and art’s eventual life in the world. Kurt Andersen (Reset, Heyday), Kenneth Goldsmith (Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in a Digital Age) and the artist Simon Dinnerstein whose painting “The Fulbright Triptych” inspired the recent collection of critical essays The Suspension of Time. Moderated by Julie Burstein (Spark: How Creativity Works).

For more on the book we’ve posted the chapter Why Appropriation? and the an excerpt has also been posted on the Chronicle of Higher Ed’s website.