Which of America’s founding fathers began writing his memoirs in the early 1770s, a project that remained unfinished when it was posthumously published in 1793? - The New York Times
The least wanted novel contains a mix of “such ostensibly despised elements as stream of consciousness, explicit sex scenes, an extraterrestrial setting, metafictional commentary on novel-writing itself, talking animals, second-person narration, and tennis.” (Tennis?) - Slate
Esther Freud writes novels inspired by her life; now her sister is writing memoir on Instagram. "How strange, over this last year, to read my sister’s interpretation of events. Free from the wiles of fiction, her voice rings out, clear and clean.” - The Guardian (UK)
“The women who run the Atelier Devauchelle in Paris sew and create new bindings. They restore old bindings and torn pages. They create slipcovers and special boxes to protect fragile books.” - The New York Times
The letter “asks them to refrain from publishing books written using AI tools built on copyrighted content without authors' consent or compensation, to refrain from replacing publishing house employees wholly or partially with AI tools, and to only hire human audiobook narrators.” - NPR
One of the bookstores writes, “Author JK Rowling publicly committed to using her private wealth from the Harry Potter series to develop the ‘JK Rowling Women's Fund,’ an organization dedicated to removing transgender rights. … With this announcement, we've decided to stop carrying her books.” -LitHub
“The Johannesburg City Library ... had been closed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The city government claimed the building was undergoing urgent repairs, but ... many sensed a bigger problem. For nearly a decade, Johannesburg had been ruled by an unstable coalition of bickering political parties.” - The Christian Science Monitor
The paper found that the process was better on the brain without tech tools: “internal attention and semantic processing during creative ideation” was highest for the writers who used neither Google nor ChatGPT. - LitHub
What happens if, or when, the Emancipation Proclamation is “lost” because it promotes diversity, equity and inclusion? The Codex Azcatitlan disappears because it describes a history that doesn’t place European Americans at the forefront? - Washington Post
“Authors are reportedly being hit by negative reviews on the book review site Goodreads before proof copies are even circulated, with the review site allegedly failing to remove reviews.” - The Bookseller (UK)
The author Percival Everett is fond of noting that he considers reading to be a subversive act. “No one can control what minds do when reading; it is entirely private,” he once said. This, to me, is the best argument for why a man should read. - The Atlantic (MSN)
“This is something that takes time and effort and your heart and your soul, and you do this in a community. And then you’re telling me you’re just going to poop it out two seconds on a screen. And I was just like, who asked for this? This is gross.” - The Verge
“(Three publishers) have launched the biennial Poetry in Translation prize, which will award an advance of $5,000 to be shared equally between poet and translator. The winning collection will be published in the UK and Ireland by Fitzcarraldo Editions, in Australia and New Zealand by Giramondo and in North America by New Directions.” - The Guardian
“It started out to be ... (a) serious memoir project about money and what it’s like to live in a capitalist system. … But then I sat down to write a memoir and realized, ‘Oh my god, I’m going to have to read about economics.’ … I didn’t want to do all that research.” - Slate
