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A literary A.I. scandal arrives (This week in books)

May 22, 2026 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! I’m back! For real this time! And what a dizzying few weeks it’s been while I globetrotted. As a writer, blogger, newsletter-er, and editor/consultant helping other writers, it feels like the ground’s shifting under my feet very, very fast. Artificial Intelligence is unleashing massive changes, and it’s daunting to make sense of […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Alice Robb, Alina Maria Stan, Benjamin Mullin, Casey Newton, Censorship, David Epstein, David Foster Wallace, David O'Neill, Isaac Kolding, Jane Friedman, Jasmine Vojdani, Justin Rao, Laura Miller, Lauren Collins, Lincoln Michel, Lindsey Adler, Middle Grade, Nathalie op de Beeck, Patrick Brzeski, Pulitzer, R.F. Kuang, Scams, Valeriya Safronova, Vauhini Vara, Victoria Strauss

The bestseller who made $49,000 last year (This week in books)

March 13, 2026 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! What Do You Do and What Do You Make? – New York Magazine – This fascinating snapshot of how much money various people in NYC make sent many tongues wagging, particularly the New York Times bestselling author with 800,000+ Instagram followers, who made $49,000 last year, roughly the same amount as a […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexandra Alter, Casey Newton, Chang Che, Grammarly, Greg Greeley, James Patterson, Jim Milliot, Kate McKean, Miles Klee, Mr. Beast, publishing industry, Simon & Schuster, Vauhini Vara, Walter Marsh

Musk sinks Twitter in just a year (This week in books)

October 27, 2023 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! I’ll never forget it. When I was on vacation in Hawaii in the late 2000s, I checked my email and it was nothing but “new follower” notifications from Twitter. Sandwiched in between hundreds of these alerts was a congratulations. I’d made Twitter’s inaugural “Who to follow” list. Everyone from Mike Tyson to […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Bill Watterson, Casey Newton, Diversity, Hugo Awards, Rivka Galchen, Sara Zarr, T. Kingfisher, Twitter

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