News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff
Bookish News
- Judge Blocks Texas Book Ban Law (Publishers Weekly)
- Ernest Hemingway letter on surviving 2 plane crashes sells for $237,055 (NPR)
- Book Banners May Force Closure of a Virgina Public Library on Oct. 1 (Book Riot)
- ALA Seeks Member Input on Freedom to Read Statement Revision (Publishers Weekly)
- Uncorrected Harry Potter proof found at primary school sold in ‘fairytale’ auction (The Guardian)
Worth Reading/Viewing
- 5 Authors Who Coined Their Own Sub-Genres (Book Riot)
- Lit Where You Eat: Authors Who Work as Booksellers (Book Riot)
Reviews and LitCrit
- ‘Holly’ is one of Stephen King’s most political novels to date, “and it’ll’ surely anger all the right people.” (NPR)
- A New Era for Boarding School Literature: Emma Staffaroni on the End of a (Problematic) Fairy Tale (Literary Hub)
Free Fiction Online
- “My Cheesecake-Shaped Poverty,” by Haruki Murakami (The New Yorker)
Books, Movies, and TV
- ‘The Outsiders’ Musical Sets Broadway Opening For Spring 2024 (Deadline)
- Greta Gerwig’s Paradise Lost: Orlando Reade on the Deep Parallels Between Barbie and John Milton’s Late Renaissance Epic (Literary Hub)
AI (“artificial intelligence”)
- Sean Michaels on Collaborating with AI to Write a Novel (Literary Hub)
- ‘I hope I’m wrong’: the co-founder of DeepMind on how AI threatens to reshape life as we know it (The Guardian)
Book Lists
Bookish Quote
Nicole @ BookWyrm Knits
I’m really hesitant about that “working with an AI to write a novel” idea. Sure, maybe it gives weird and odd word choice for some scenes that are supposed to be “infiltrated by AI.” But there are just still too many questions and variables and copyright violations involved. I don’t see any of that being solved any time soon.
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Lydia
I didn’t know there were political tones to Holly. Interesting! Now I want to read it even more.
Lark_Bookwyrm
I hope you enjoy it! Personally, I’ve never read a Stephen King book; the only ones I ever tried to read were too scary or horrifying for me, so I gave up. But I have a lot of respect for him as a writer based on interviews I have seen or read. I plan to read On Writing sometime in the next year.