As if she were a character in a short story by Franz Kafka, Emily Dreyfus woke up one morning to discover she was a robot.  Instead of a face, she had an iPad screen.  Instead of eyes, she used a camera to guide her, though it lacked peripheral vision.  Instead of a mouth, she had

As I read the latest edition of The New Republic which featured remarks about three writers — FranzKafka,  Karl Ove Knausgaard and Virginia Woolf — I concluded they all agreed that writing is work.  Kafka struggled deep into the night so that he might labor without distr