Good Morning,
A top celebrity-profile writer set out to interview Tilly Norwood and ran into a problem: she isn’t a person (The New York Times). The AI “actress” has no inner life to report, which didn’t stop anyone from trying.
Bookstores are supposed to be dying, but that’s old conventional wisdom. The count is actually growing, and briskly (AP). Publishing is supposed to be glamorous; but here’s how the business really works (The Republic of Letters).
Supposedly, the tuning reference for music — A=440, got nudged down to A=432Hz, supposedly because it’s more soothing. But what’s the evidence? (AP).
Then a couple of good news stories: When a keyboardist fell ill mid-show in Sydney, a university student climbed onstage and finished the performance (The Guardian). And Chicago’s stand-up comics, gig workers in the truest sense, finally have a path to health insurance (WBEZ).
Meanwhile, someone peeled Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana off a museum wall and walked off with it — and the museum wants to prosecute (ARTnews). You can steal the fruit. Good luck stealing the concept.
Doug
