The Agony of Victory (on Brian Christian’s The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive & Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything)

Baynard Woods is the author of Coffin Point: The Strange Cases of Ed McTeer, Witchdoctor Sheriff (River City Publishing, 2010). He is editor-at-large and a columnist at the Baltimore City Paper, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, McSweeney’s, and numerous other publications. He is writing a book about people who believe in the Greek gods.