Ep. 50: Information Age ft. Cora Lewis

09/07/2025 57 min
Ep. 50: Information Age ft. Cora Lewis

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This week on Tasteland we are joined by writer and award winning journalist, Cora Lewis. Cora's fiction has appeared at The Yale Review, Joyland Magazine, Epiphany, and elsewhere. She currently works at the Associated Press in New York, and she previously worked at BuzzFeed News. Cora's debut novella, Information Age, comes out on July 15th.Pre-order Cora's book Information Age__Follow CoraTwitter/XLinkedInWebsite__Timestamps00:00 Reading Information Age04:37 Book design and unique literary devices11:46 Title inspiration and influences14:12 The artistry of fragmented writing20:14 Composing fragments into a finished piece26:09 You can't write life to scale34:42 Honing the aesthetics of a novella37:36 Cora's lack of social media presence44:58 The duty to represent life accurately51:25 A clearheaded view of AI__Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers.