It’s stormy in Brooklyn, and a steady icy rain is falling from the clouds. The warmth at the living room table of Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster, on the other hand, presents itself as a single blessing. Hustvedt says she has just read a “really scary” article as he welcomes her, about the power of algorithms in passing on and consolidating structural racism and sexist prejudices. The reading serves her new novel, which is half finished and has the working title “The Cursed Envelope”. In it, as she also reveals, she explores the history of eugenics, among other things.
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