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$2.5 million book deal canceled over A.I. suspicions (This week in books)

July 31, 2026 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! Seven-Figure Book Deal Cancelled Over AI Suspicions Raises Questions About AI Guardrails – Erin Somers, Publishers Lunch – So I guess we’re still doing this… According to Publishers Lunch, a $2.5 million two-book deal won at auction by Minotaur has been scuppered by the agents because they are “no longer able to […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., AALA, Alexandra Alter, Angeline Boulley, Christopher Nolan, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Elizabeth Weil, Emily Wilson, Erin Somers, H.M. Wolfe, Jane Friedman, Kate McKean, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Linda Sue Park, Michael Levin, Miles Klee, Sally Lodge, Sam Spratford, The Odyssey, Will Oremus

How to fight book bans (This week in books)

April 7, 2023 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! The resurgence of book bans remains distressingly rampant as parents try to control not just what their own kids read, but other kids as well. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what some are calling “parents rights” is really “when some parents have the right to dominate all the others.” Alyssa Rosenberg has some […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Censorship, ChatGPT, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Donald Maass, E-books, John Matthew Fox, Roald Dahl, Stacy Frazer, Star Wars

Support our Asian communities (This week in books)

March 19, 2021 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! It’s been a seriously dark time in this country with a horrific mass shooting at massage parlors in Atlanta and an uptick in hate crimes against Asian-Americans. Author Alexander Chee talked to poet and critic Cathy Park Hong about how anti-Asian violence must be a bigger part of the anti-racism discourse, and […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Alexander Chee, Bookstores, Casey Kapp, Cathy Park Hong, Connie Wun, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Graham Greene, Joan Acocella, John le Carré, Kara Swisher, Lincoln Michel, Linda Sue Park, Ralph Keyes, Spike Lee, Stephani Martinell Eaton

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