This is a longer piece with some of the thinking behind The Universal Turing Machine. Everyone who embarks on a Turing Machine memoir notices at some stage that it’s fun. It’s a fun way to write, when writing is often …
Everyone has memories. And according to the old saying, we all have a book in us. Put these thoughts together and everyone has a memoir in them.
Chine McDonald discovers The Universal Turing Machine on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day.
Richard Beard, award-winning author of The Day That Went Missing and Sad Little Men, thought he was writing his next book, a whole life memoir. In the event, he has written his way off the page and into …
My version of the Universal Turing Machine is only the beginning. The idea is that writers everywhere can use the thousand-words-a-year format to add their own memoir to an ever-growing chessboard, which will eventually become a neural network of memories …
Georges, Georges Perec, is that you?
No.
Come on, Georges, this is the first time I’ve summoned spirits from the dead. Would you consider giving me an interview?
No.
Georges, I have a Ouija board here on a small …
The first phase of the Universal Turing Machine is now available to read free online.
‘Utterly humane and utterly brilliant,’ Lily Dunn, author of Into Being; The Radical Craft of Memoir and its Power to Transform. ‘There are …