Emily LaBarge, asked how her seventy-part book Dog Days found its shape, shared her notebooks of graph paper. In conversation with Sara Magenheimer:
On one side, pieces I thought of as literary experiments; on the other, pieces I thought of as narrative, color-coded. I start with a big web and then figure out which threads can hold enough space to be an actual section, which are narrative, which are themes, which are artworks that act as metaphors but also cultural criticism, which is research…
Processes writers use to make sense of “big webs” of notes seem like they could be helpful for managing noisy AI-generated documents. Hmm.