Media

Interviews, profiles, and press coverage related to my work in interactive fiction, digital publishing, and procedural art.

Anna Washenko · Ars Technica · June 2024

From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction

Interview on my role in founding interactive fiction social communities.

Julie Lasky · New York Times · October 2018

New life for a 1902 manual about color

This NYT article covers my defunct Emily N. Vanderbot Twitter bot, which now lives on as colorproblems.art.

Sarah Laskow · Atlas Obscura · November 2017

Welcome to interactive fiction: You're a wizard-sniffing pig

Interview along with other Interactive Fiction Competition winners and organizers.

Kristofor Lawson & Andrew Moon · Moonshot Podcast · June 2017

AI: The rise of the machines

I was a featured guest on a podcast interview about AI and machine learning.

Steve Haske · Inverse · November 2016

'Westworld' poses big questions for interactive fiction

Interview about the relationship between interactive fiction and AI, featuring me, Emily Short, Lynnea Glasser, and Bruno Dias.

Tim Carmody · Wired · 2011

Amazon's Cloud Reader still doesn't take the web seriously

A long time ago I gave my opinion about ebooks in the cloud based on my experience developing the web-based Ibis Reader.