"The shuffling and reshuffling has reached the point where Condé is now spitting out the people who were brought in to replace the prior generation of people it spit out. … Says senior correspondent Delia Cai. 'You would be shocked at how few people are holding it up.'" - New York Magazine
"(As) editorial director of Bantam Books, … he oversaw a boom in paperback publishing beginning in the 1960s, putting out hitmakers from The Catcher in the Rye to Jaws" to rapid-turnaround books about the Entebbe hostage rescue and the Jonestown massacre to novels by Judith Krantz and Louis L'Amour. - The New York Times
"In a studio theatre tucked into a courtyard behind Kyiv’s main Khreshchatyk Street, six playwrights and six directors were hammering out a fraught question: how to write plays about war, during the war. One unexpected outcome of their workshops was: through jokes." - The Guardian
"The Los Angeles Opera has scrapped plans for the world premiere of Mason Bates's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay this fall because of finances. The work will instead open with a student cast at Indiana University" ahead of a planned run at the Met during the 2026-26 season. - AP
"An author, literature professor and member of the Kiowa Indian tribe who became the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize — for his 1968 debut novel, House Made of Dawn — (he) helped inspire a flowering of contemporary Native American literature." - The Washington Post (MSN)
The Musicians' Union and Equity, which represents the company's chorus, put a hold on the planned strike after Equity announced that it has reached an interim settlement with management. At issue are the company's plans for employing union members during and after its move from London to Manchester. - The Guardian
"Pompidou workers went on strike in mid-October over concerns for job security while the center closes for renovations for five years, starting in 2025. … The union sought written guarantees from administration that there was a plan for (museum) staff, collections, and usual programming." - ARTnews
Is it possible, then, that we so fiercely police the distinction between what Large Language Models can do and human creativity because we’re… touchy about it? - Unherd
The office has suddenly found itself in the spotlight. Lobbyists for Microsoft, Google, and the music and news industries have asked to meet. Thousands of artists, musicians and tech executives have written to the agency, and hundreds have asked to speak at listening sessions hosted by the office. - The New York Times
A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in the town of New Canaan, Connecticut, has sold for $6 million—25 percent below its asking price—to an undisclosed buyer. - Artnet
The industry is facing yet another revolution, but what sort isn’t yet clear. Is A.I. a format change in the way music is consumed, like the transition from records and cassettes to CDs, or is it a threat to the business model, as were free downloading and file-sharing? - The New Yorker
History can be a powerful tool for manipulation and malfeasance. The same generative A.I. that can fake current events can also fake past ones. - The New York Times
Orwell contended that language had become corrupt and debased in his time, but the survival of his examples into the present contradicts him, suggesting that not only the problem but the very examples may be timeless. - The New York Times
Candlelight Concerts aren’t about digital projections, but are about curating and customizing full experiences. And that’s striking a major chord. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
