Talking Shakespeare with the bullshit machine

I asked ChatGPT to write a headline for this interview, but its suggestions were even worse than that one

“J. was sure Mrs. Goodwin had led a discussion about the lessons of John Henry’s story and its ambiguous ending, but he doesn’t remember it now. Mrs. Goodwin, why did he die at the end? Mrs. Goodwin, if he beat the steam engine, why did he have to die? Did he win or lose?”

—Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days

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