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Two Decades in, the Queen of Faerie Fantasy Is Doing Just FineFrom Slate: Fairies are having a moment, thanks to the overwhelming popularity of books like Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Thorns and...
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Writing Dreams Do Come True: What Happens After you Get “That Call”Anne R. Allen’s Blog… with Ruth Harris: THE OFFER I’m writing this guest post from behind two boxes of books just delivered from...
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instrumentsNovels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional...
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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night review – the Uyghurs’ fight for survival in a society where repression is routineFrom The Guardian: A group of Uyghur friends are having a late-night chat. “I wish the Chinese would just conquer the world,” one says...
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PRH, Hachette, S&S Flag ‘Trashed Books’ in New YorkFrom Publishing Perspectives: Overnight (March 18), Kiara Alfonseca has confirmed for ABC News in New York City that the city’s department of...
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25 Years Later, We’re All Trapped in The MatrixFrom The Wall Street Journal: It is a cinematic scene familiar to millions: A man named Morpheus sits across from another man named Neo and...
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Who knows where inspiration comes fromWho knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of...
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A Well-Contained LifeFrom The Paris Review: What can’t be contained? Not much. We are given the resources, mental or physical, to contain our emotions and our...
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Resistance is FutileFrom studiomcah: Yes, it’s true: after much gnashing of teeth and a token resistance to the inevitable, I decided it was time to do serious...
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Take Yourself Out of ItFrom Writer Unboxed: When Emma Stone told director Yorgos Lanthimos that she was nervous about possibly winning an Oscar for her performance...
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Legal Vineyards: Cultivating Rich Connections For A Bountiful HarvestPG Trigger Warning: The following post appears because PG thought it suitably over the top to be a subject of derision. From Above the Law:...
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The writer who breeds more wordsSo the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. Dr. Seuss
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What is Suno? The ‘ChatGPT for music’ generates songs in secondsFrom ZD Net: Several text-to-music generators are now on the market, including offerings from Meta and Google. However, the Suno AI music...
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A new generation of music-making algorithms is hereFrom The Economist: IN THE dystopia of George Orwell’s novel “1984”, Big Brother numbs the masses with the help of a “versificator”, a...
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The world’s most misunderstood novelFrom BBC: The Great Gatsby is synonymous with parties, glitz and glamour – but this is just one of many misunderstandings about the book...
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Another “buy” button lawsuit over digital licenses continuesFrom Rebecca Tushnet’s 43(B)log: This putative class action alleged that Amazon overcharged and “[d]eceived consumers by...
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When I stand before GodWhen I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used...
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Without leaps of imaginationWithout leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem
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Hachette gender and ethnicity pay gaps widen despite some progressFrom The Bookseller: Hachette has reported a rise across both its mean and median gender pay gaps for the whole company group between 2022...
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‘Copyright, Not Infringement, Serves the Public Interest’From Publishing Perspectives: On Friday . . . four major publishers—Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin Random House, and...
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Shelf Life Books in Richmond UnionizesFrom Publishers Weekly: Workers at Shelf Life Books in Richmond, Va., have joined the United Food & Commercial Workers Local (UFCW) 400...
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Making sense of the gulf between young men and womenFrom The Economist: M en and women have different experiences, so you would expect them to have different worldviews. Nonetheless, the...
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YouTube now requires creators to disclose when realistic content was made with AIFrom TechCrunch: YouTube is now requiring creators to disclose to viewers when realistic content was made with AI, the company announced on...
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‘Authors Against Book Bans’ MobilizesFrom Publishers Weekly: A group of children’s authors is rallying against the rising number of book bans and challenges nationwide, speaking...
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“Dune” is a warning about political heroes and their tribesFrom The Economist: Frank Herbert, the author of the science-fiction novel “Dune” on which a new blockbuster film is based, would have been...
