Literary Theory for Robots by Dennis Yi Tenen
The tales of early ESPN people who gambled their careers while critics carped that all-sports television will never work are full of guile, luck, fear, fun, and unbridled optimism. As ESPN's founding executive producer, Peter Fox was privy to some spectacular professional efforts by a cadre of Connecticut locals who made the dream real. The first 300 days of the fledgling network were filled with mayhem, on-air gaffes, and the slowest instant replay in television. What started as a humble idea in the late spring of 1978 to capitalize on the brand-new mania for UConn men's basketball soon morphed into ESPN and a plan to begin airing a series of test broadcasts in the fall. This is the story of the early days at ESPN, told by one of its founders, and how a conversation over a couple of martinis in 1978 led to the creation of a broadcast juggernaut.
"[Literary Theory for Robots] is surprising, funny and resolutely unintimidating.. Tenen has figured out how to present a web of complex ideas at human scale. " -- Jennifer Szalai - The New York Times Book Review
Dennis Yi Tenen is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Originally a software engineer at Microsoft, Yi Tenen is now an affiliate of Columbia’s Data Science Institute. He lives in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393882186 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393882187 |
| Title | Literary Theory for Robots |
| Author | Dennis Yi Tenen |
| Series | A Norton Short |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2024-03-22 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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