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A.I. comes for the book world (This week in books)

July 12, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, some very distressing news regarding two famous authors. The late Alice Munro’s daughter Andrea Robin Skinner published an essay about how Munro stood by Skinner’s stepfather even after he admitted to sexually abusing Skinner. Nearly as distressing as that, all of this was more or less an open secret among […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: A.I., Alice Munro, Andrea Long Chu, Andrew Schenker, Caspar David Friedrichs, Cassandra Jenkins, Elisabeth Egan, Emily Henry, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Grayson Haver Currin, Inkitt, Jacques Testard, John Grisham, Kate McKean, Neil Gaiman, R.O. Kwon, Rachel Cusk, Rebecca Ackermann, Rebecca Mead, Ryan Lackey, Zachary Fine

Writing books you don’t want your parents to read (This week in books)

March 15, 2024 by Nathan Bransford

This week! Books! First up, I’ve heard from multiple authors who’ve been scammed recently by fraudsters impersonating agents and publishers. Please, please educate yourself on how to spot a publishing scam and be very wary of people contacting you out of the blue with something that seems too good to be true. Yes, agents and […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Brandon Sanderson, Daniel Immerwahr, David Marchese, Elizabeth Minkel, Frantz Fanon, Jeremy Strong, Lincoln Michel, Maris Kreizman, Moby-Dick, R.O. Kwon, Writer Beware

S&S removes distribution for cop’s book (This week in books)

April 16, 2021 by Nathan Bransford

This has been another really distressing week in America, and my heart goes out to everyone who has been affected in any way by all the senseless violence. Let’s look out for ourselves and each other, Black Lives Matter, support commonsense gun and police reform, and we all need to do our part to dismantle […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: #BlackLivesMatter, Amanda Gorman, David Gaughran, Doreen St. Felix, Jessica Faust, Kindle Vella, Monica Leonelle, publishing industry, R.O. Kwon, Simon & Schuster

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