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August 5, 1948August 5, 1948 – Chicago, Illinois: A big ‘For Sale’ sign in a Chicago yard mutely tells the tragic story of Mr. and Mrs. Ray...
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Publishers are notoriously slothfulPublishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they’re attached to dollar signs – unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and...
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U.K. Publishing Sales Rose 3% in 2023From Publishers Weekly: Revenue for U.K. publishing in 2023 was £7.1 billion—about $8.9 billion at current exchange rates—up 3% from 2022,...
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The Only Two Times You Can Effectively MultitaskFrom Lifehacker: Typically speaking, multitasking makes you worse at everything. There’s plenty of scientific research to back this up, and...
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Not Lost in a Book – Why the “decline by 9” in kids pleasure reading is getting more pronounced, year after year.From Slate: Those of us who believe in the power of books worry all the time that reading, as a pursuit, is collapsing, eclipsed by...
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Eternity Only Will AnswerFrom The Poetry Foundation: Forget the Emily Dickinson you think you know, that hermetic author of bedeviling sense, “So Anthracite, to live...
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Google built medical AI that can train itself and outperform real doctorsFrom BGR: Google’s AI research lab, DeepMind, continues to push new progress in the realm of AI. The latest step comes in creating a...
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Only a mediocre personOnly a mediocre person is always at his best. W. Somerset Maugham
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Dialect and Idiolect: I say [tuh-MEY-toh]; you say [tuh-MAH-toh]From The Institute for Excellence in Writing: The word “dialect” is one most people have likely heard of and possibly even used. Another...
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Online dating spells the end of Britain’s lonely-hearts adsFrom The Economist: Mr Darcy, it turns out, was undemanding. In “Pride and Prejudice” Jane Austen implies that he is a picky paramour, since...
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Famous Last WordsFrom Writing Hood: In today’s crazy-fast world, where screens are buzzing with info, and our attention span is like, “Hey, where did you go?”...
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The establishment told her she was wrong – then stole her findingsFrom History Today: In December 1871 the Prince of Wales lay dangerously ill with typhoid, the disease that had killed his father. Taking...
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It’s Not Only Human Stories Worth Telling: Sigrid Nunez’s Animal NovelsFrom Public Books: After several uncertain weeks this fall, my cat died. Her little life was bracketed by two crises that she was not aware...
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The world hates changeThe world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. Charles Kettering There is no sin punished more implacably...
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ABA Seeks to Add Bookstores to FTC Lawsuit Against AmazonFrom Publishers Weekly: The American Booksellers Association has filed a motion with the Federal Trade Commission seeking to fix a hole in...
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Once More unto the Bard: Shakespeare and WarFrom The Literary Review (UK): Oleksii Hnatkovskyi stands alone as Hamlet, spotlit and swathed in blue and yellow. The scene is from a...
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Vows: Marriage, Love and CommitmentFrom The Wall Street Journal: Somewhere around 1549, an English priest introduced love into marriage. Sort of. Thomas Cranmer, the...
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Axon releases Draft One, AI-powered report-writing softwareFrom Police.com: Axon has announced the release of Draft One, a new software product that drafts police report narratives in seconds based on...
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The best books to read to understand financial crimeFrom The Economist: F inancial crime is as old as money. Hucksters were dreaming up Ponzi schemes centuries before Charles Ponzi gave...
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It is nice that nobody writes as they talkIt is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in...
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Yes, People Still Buy BooksFrom Slate: Last week the article “No One Buys Books,” by Elle Griffin, went viral, topping Substack categories and being shared widely on...
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The Mongol Hordes: They’re Just Like UsFrom The New Yorker: On September, Pope Francis became the first leader of the Catholic Church ever to visit Mongolia. It must have been a...
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Nobody Expects the Trollbot Inquisition! Are Foreign Bots Censoring U.S. Authors?From Anne R. Allen’s Blog… with Ruth Harris: We hardly ever write personal stuff here on the blog. I avoid politics and religion in my...
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Is This the Most Boring Man in the World?From The Wall Street Journal: Late last year Randy Smith got a text from a complete stranger. She thanked him for putting her to sleep....
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How Sleep Podcasts Quietly Hack Your BrainFrom EsquireUK: Every night for the last week, I’ve walked down a back street in a quiet suburban town. I know it well, or maybe it’s my...
