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May 16, 2003 by Scott Rosenberg

One of the things I’m proudest of from my tenure as Salon’s technology editor was whatever role we played in helping the writing of Ellen Ullman — some of the most thoughtful, accessible prose on programming you’ll find anywhere — reach a wider audience. We excerpted her “Close to the Machine” when it came out in 1997, and I had the pleasure of interviewing her at the time. She later did some more memorable writing for Salon.

Now she’s written a wonderful novel called “The Bug.” You can read the excerpt here, and my new interview with her here.

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