Ash McGrath

@ashmcgrathwrites.bsky.social

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Writer, author, AI optimist 🌈 📚 I publish bi-weekly essays about creativity, AI, and other weird corners of humanity. Subscribe to Thought Partner for the 🧃 https://thought-partner.kit.com/ #AICommunity #WritingCommunity

5 cent coins with engravings of skulls and other art.

Copy of “The World According to Joan Didion” by Evelyn McDonnell

Adventure Zone Graphic Novels 1-3

Picture of library stacks

A stack of books: Margaret Atwood: Burning Questions, Donald Hall: Essays After Eighty, Wings of Red: James W. Jennings, Brave New Words: Salman Kahn.

Martha Stewart on the Cover of Sports Illustrated

The cover of Jeremy Thatcher the dragon Hatcher

An exerpt from Margaret Atwood.

O reader, live forever! (You— the individual reader—won’t live forever, but it’s fun to say, and it sounds good.)

We writers cannot imagine you; yet we must,

For without you, the activity of writing is surely meaningless and without destination,

And therefore it is by its very nature an act of hope, since writing implies a future in which the freedom to read will exist:

We conjure and invoke you, Mysterious Reader; and Lo: You exist! The proof of your existence is that you have just read about this existence of yours, right here.

Stack of worn journals on a wooden desk.

Gray fluffy cat asleep on colored tapestry

Gray cat asleep on colorful tapestry

Orange can asleep in front of a window in a shrimp pose