Kenneth Goldsmith at the Brooklyn Book Festival

Kenneth Goldsmith, Uncreative WritingRounding 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.

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