Brian Christian

Brian Christian’s writing appears in AGNI, Seneca Review, Gulf Coast, Best New Poets, and Ninth Letter, on the web at Conjunctions and McSweeney’s, and in scientific journals such as Cognitive Science. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Christian holds degrees in philosophy, computer science, and poetry from Brown University and the University of Washington.  He lives in Seattle. The author writes, “I’m indebted in ‘High Compression’ to conversations with Matt Richards, Lee Gilman, Brittany Dennison, Hillary Dixler, Bernard Reginster, Tom Griffiths, Eugene Charniak, and David Shields. Thanks, also, to Dan Mirman, Jenny Safran, Matt Mahoney, and Daniel Gilbert for pointing me to some influential readings.” (updated 4/2009)

AGNI has published the following work by Brian Christian:

•High Compression: Information, Intimacy, and the Entropy of Life
•That Trick of Memory: Seasonally Induced Amnesia in Seattle