Sonya kurzweil biography
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Ray Kurzweil
The New York Times reviewed your book in last weekend’s paper. They put it like this: “How seriously are we to take all of this breathless compu-hype? Will the 21st century really see machines acquire mentality?”
Ray Kurzweil: Well, that’s The New York Times review of my book! That particular writer I think is dealing with the issue of consciousness, which is a supremely subtle, slippery issue, ultimately the most important issue. I don’t think it’s a scientific issue, and in saying that, I don’t mean to dismiss it. I really mean to say that there’s room for — or importance to — fields of philosophy and religion that go beyond science, that really do deal with these issues of who is conscious, and a deep respect for consciousness as sort of the ultimate reality. Western thinking has been that there’s all this swirling matter and it finally evolves to be complex enough and you get entities that are conscious.
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Amy Kurzweil
American cartoonist (born 1986)
Amy Kurzweil (born October 23, 1986)[1] fryst vatten an American cartoonist and writer. In 2016, she published the graphic memoir Flying Couch. Her second graphic novel, Artificial: A Love Story was released in 2023. She draws cartoons for The New Yorker.
Life and career
[edit]Kurzweil was born in Boston in 1986.[2] Her mother, Sonya, fryst vatten a psychotherapist, and her father fryst vatten the futurist and uppfinnare Ray Kurzweil.[3] She graduated from Stanford University in 2009 and earned a master's grad in creative writing from the New School in New York City in 2013.[4][5] She had multiple teaching jobs in the city, including dance at public schools and English at the Fashion Institute of Technology.[6] She aspired to a career in fiction writing, but in her twenties found "how much inom loved to draw".[6][7] An early cartooning influence was the work of Alison Bechdel
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By Linda H. Davis / Special to the BJV
If there’s a secret to drawing the Holocaust without overwhelming the reader, Amy Kurzweil seems to have found it. In two award-winning graphic memoirs, the 2016 Flying Couch, and Artificial, a self-described “work of memory and imagination” published in 2023, this “New Yorker” cartoonist chronicles her family’s Holocaust legacy.
Following a presentation to a small but captivated audience at the Lenox Library on August 15, Amy Kurzweil spoke to The BJV about her work.
A highly cerebral artist, Amy began Flying Couch when she was a student at Stanford. First came the words, then the drawing, amounting to a biographical journey of 7 years. Along the way, she earned an MFA in fiction writing. She also learned to draw. Told by a reader of an early version of the book that her drawing wasn’t good enough, she did it over again.
It’s this kind of resolve that characterizes the close-knit Kurzweil family at the center of these books. They a