Geek Sublime

Name: Geek Sublime
Brand: Graywolf Press
SKU: 9781555976859-V
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By Vikram Chandra

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The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller "Sacred Games" about the surprising overlap between writing and computer coding Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code? Exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the machismo of tech geeks, the omnipresence of an "Indian Mafia" in Silicon Valley, and the writings of the eleventh-century Kashmiri thinker Abhinavagupta, "Geek Sublime" is both an idiosyncratic history of coding and a fascinating meditation on the writer's art. Part literary essay, part technology story, and part memoir, it is an engrossing, original, and heady book of sweeping ideas.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: illustrated
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 272
Publisher:: Graywolf Press
Publication Date:: 2014-09-02
ISBN / EAN:: 9781555976859
Weight:: 331 g
Dimensions:: 14/21/2 cm

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