The Programmer as Author in ‘If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript’
This inventive and engaging book imagines what JavaScript might look like in the hands of 25 writers, including William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Tupac Shakur, and J.K. Rowling.
Kayley Thomas
Kayley Thomas is a doctoral student in English at the University of Florida. She has published and presented papers on Victorian crime fiction, comics, fan culture, and film adaptations. She can be reached at kayleyjthomas@gmail.com or on Twitter @kayleythomas.
The Power of the Reader in ‘A History of Reading’
Alberto Manguel takes a thematic rather than linear approach to a history of reading, offering an entertaining and impassioned account of reading practices and readers' agency.