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An Utterly Misleading Book About Rural AmericaFrom The Atlantic: Rage is the subject of a new book by the political scientist Tom Schaller and the journalist Paul Waldman. White Rural...
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Character Type & Trope Thesaurus: PsychopathFrom Writers Helping Writers: DESCRIPTION : This narcissistic and antisocial character lacks empathy and will cross any line to get what...
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Ask a Bookseller: ‘Art and Fear’From Ask a Bookseller: This one’s for the creatives. Used bookstores can be a treasure trove of great reads, old and new, on a huge...
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AI v. HemingwayIn his experiments with AI writing programs, PG has discovered a few strengths and weaknesses. Following are the first few paragraphs of...
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How Anthropic found a trick to get AI to give you answers it’s not supposed toFrom TechCrunch: If you build it, people will try to break it. Sometimes even the people building stuff are the ones breaking it. Such is the...
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Nobody ever lives their lifeNobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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What Is Sensitivity Reading?From The Science Fiction Writers of America: Have you ever read something that you knew was incorrect? Sometimes, research has fallen short...
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Page 98From Writer Unboxed: I’m writing this post in a public library. It isn’t a research library, the awesome university kind where you might go...
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J.K. Rowling Still Free from the Speech PoliceFrom The Wall Street Journal: An appalling political effort to force the people of Scotland to express only government-approved thoughts on...
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Apple has been secretly building home robotsFrom Business Insider: Apple is in the early stages of looking into making home robots, a move that appears to be an effort to create its...
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Museums are becoming more expensiveFrom The Economist: “It’s almost a moral duty that museums should be free,” said Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)....
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Visitor InformationPG glanced at some site stats for TPV and discovered that, after the U.S., the second-largest location providing visitors to TPV is China. More...
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Hong Kong’s Forbidden AppleFrom The Wall Street Journal: The Chinese Communist Party has already crushed freedom in Hong Kong. Now it’s beating a dead horse. As...
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AAP StatShot: In 2023, US Revenues Were $12.6 BillionFrom Publishing Perspectives: In its release today (March 26) of its December 2023 StatShot report, the Association of American Publishers...
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The Truth About Website GrowthFrom Writers in the Storm: Statistics are interesting. Statistics can provide us with valuable information. Like, right now, there are over 8...
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Help Us Choose the Saddest Book of All TimeFrom Electric Lit: Forget March Madness—this year, we’ve decided to try something new: March Sadness. That’s right, folks: this...
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Generative A.I. For Writers: An Unfolding (But Not Inevitable) Nightmare!From Chuck Wendig: I have seen the sentiment around that generative AI for writers and artists is “inevitable,” which is a message that I...
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History Goes to War in the Holy LandFrom The Wall Street Journal: The dogs of the neighborhood perk up to greet me at Benny Morris’s front gate in this middle-of-nowhere...
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The Third Planet“Do you ever wonder if–well, if there are people living on the third planet?’ “The third planet is incapable of supporting...
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10 Best AI Story Generators (March 2024)From Unite.AI: AI story generators are powerful tools that can create plots, characters, and complete stories based on small text prompts....
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Reading fiction ‘significantly’ reduces stressFrom The Bookseller: The Queen’s Reading Room – the literary charity set up by Queen Camilla in 2021 – has found that reading fiction...
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Small Name Writers…From Dean Wesley Smith: Readers buy book by not only what their front brain thinks of the sales copy and the cover, but more than that,...
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Could your marriage survive a shipwreck?From The Economist: When the captain of a Korean tuna-fishing ship first caught sight of Maurice and Maralyn Bailey bobbing in the Pacific...
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‘God’s Ghostwriters’ Review: The Bible’s Hidden ContributorsFrom The Wall Street Journal: ‘The stupid, the lowborn, the gullible; slaves, women, and children.” For the second-century pagan writer...
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No Posts TodayPG and Mrs. PG have both caught some sort of coughing, hacking, aching illness that has drawn all ambition and energy from their minds and bodies....
