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The Empire State Constructing to Go Inexperienced for THE GREAT GATSBY
On the one hand, that is fairly cool. Most likely probably the most widely-known literary image in American literature switching onto one in all America’s iconic landmarks makes my book-nerd coronary heart fairly joyful. Nonetheless. My “did you actually read the book” coronary heart is slightly disturbed: the inexperienced mild of want that this represents for Gatsby…..doesn’t go terribly nicely within the novel. So yea for e-book consciousness and pleasure. Boo for studying comprehension.
A Report from AWP
On this awkwardly-entertaining report from AWP (the largest and baddest convention for writers), Greta Rainbow is very adept at capturing the disconnect from the a number of(!) AI firms who additionally attended. This is likely one of the nice “read the room” disconnects you’re prone to encounter on the earth of books, I’d hazard to guess. The underside line is that the type of writers that attend AWP are exactly the writers who’re going to be least concerned with AI writing expertise–they’re purchased in to a networking/institution/trad pub mannequin of how these things ought to go (very similar to AWP has not been traditionally cutting-edge relating to different improvements like ebooks and self-publishing).
The ALA Sues Over the Scuppering of the IMLS
I need to admit that I don’t sustain with the small print of each govt order and DOGE trigger-firing of total departments and businesses. However it does appear to me that fits like this one are going to be the last word safety: there are particular constitutional challenges outlines about what the manager department can and can’t do. Does first your entire board of the IMLS rise to the extent of “dismantling” the IMLS? If there’s one particular person someplace typing on a beige keyboard whose nametag says IMLS, is that cool as a result of it technically nonetheless exists. Trumps on-going stress take a look at of principally the entire concept of America continues.
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Pretty unusual 12 months on the gross sales charts for books. As Danika Ellis notes, “it’s another week where the bestseller lists cannot agree: no single title made it into the top ten on all five of the biggest lists.” You may browse her weekly survey of what’s charting on what lists right here.
