Ep. 04: Paul Bradley Carr, Part 1

We invited former tech journalist and bestselling author Paul Bradley Carr for a rollicking discussion about his new novel, The Confessions. It features an all-knowing Artificial Intelligence that doesn’t want to destroy the world—because it was trained by reading fiction. He also shared his polite and laudatory thoughts about several leading tech industry personalities. Plus, our discussion of Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano’s latest novel, Ballerina, inspired Nathan to invent the cool new subgenre Proustian Noir.

Works Cited this episode:

The Confessions, Paul Bradley Carr

The Immortal King Rao, Vauhini Vara
The Candy House, Jennifer Egan
Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone, Benjamin Stevenson
“We Will All go Together When We Go,” Tom Lehrer
1984, George Orwell
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
Hercule Poirot continuation novels, Sophie Hannah
The Bulgari Connection, Fay Weldon
State of Terror, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Polostan, Neal Stephenson
In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
Paris Nocturne, Patrick Modiano
Breathless, dir. Jean-Luc Godard
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
The Elementary Particles, Michel Houellebecq
Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto, Mark Polizotti