Kester Brewin

Category: Writing

  • New Year: Resolution?

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    I’ve been asked a few times – more than last year, it feels, subjectively – what New Year’s resolutions I have. A couple of times in, having dismissed the question, it was asked by my writing group. Well, when a group of writers ask, people you’ve opened your notebooks too (a place more vulnerable than…

  • AI and the Novel

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    I’ve been thinking a bit about Generative AI and the particular form of writing that is the novel. And the more I think about it, I’m becoming convinced that the novel – which is an exceptionally distilled form of creativity, one that takes perhaps the longest time of any art form, and is ultimately created…

  • Happy George Saunders Day

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    It is the 10th of December. If you’re not a celebrant, get this book now. It’ll change your year, I promise. If you’re a writer, or interested in the craft, I highly recommend his book of his course on the Russian masters. It’s wonderful.

  • BlueSky (ex-X)

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    Hardly some great act of activism, but I do not think that Elon Musk is a good person to be wielding power like he does with ownership of X / Twitter. So, I’m out. You can find me on BlueSky here: https://bsky.app/profile/kesterbrewin.bsky.social Fortunate to have gathered an audience there already of over 1000 people. I…

  • Not OK, Computer?

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    “The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.” – AI Training Statement / https://www.aitrainingstatement.org/ Over 11,000 artists, writers, actors, musicians and others in the creative industries have signed the above statement, expressing their opposition…

  • American Psycho x Middle Class

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    A very interesting piece the New Yorker a couple of weeks ago. Rachel Monroe documents the story of a wealthy neighbourhood in Arizona that has been terrorised by the ‘Goons’ gang of rampaging, uber-privileged kids… ending with a murder, and seven boys on trial. In south Gilbert, the Goons looked like J. Crew models. “Some…