Where exactly is tech going? Joanne McNeil's debut novel 'Wrong Way' and billionaire Marc Andreessen's 'Techno-Optimist Manifesto' offer some clues. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-12-12 11:00:26 UTC ]
Let’s imagine, for the purpose of this essay, that the following statement is true: An AI writes a novel. Actually, forget about the imagining. This is already happening. Today’s AIs—large language models (LLMs) specifically, like GPT-4—can write. If you’ve glanced at the headlines this year,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-12-08 09:51:43 UTC ]
These prolific children's book authors have written hundreds of books over decades working in the publishing industry! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-12-07 11:30:00 UTC ]
A CBC News investigation has found at least 2,500 copyrighted books written by more than 1,200 Canadian and Québécois authors were shared online as part of a massive — and now defunct — dataset used to train artificial intelligence. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2023-12-07 09:00:49 UTC ]
Chanel Miller’s next book after her prize-winning memoir “Know My Name” will help fulfill a longtime dream to write and illustrate children’s stories Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2023-12-06 14:46:03 UTC ]
Penguin Random House and the Iowa State Education Association, along with four bestselling authors and five plaintiffs from the state of Iowa, have sued the state to block key provisions of its sweeping new law banning books with sexual or LGBTQ+ content in schools. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The campaign by Publishers for Palestine will offer more than 30 free ebooks of poetry, fiction and nonfiction as ‘an act of solidarity’A group of publishers has launched a week-long initiative encouraging people to read books by Palestinian authors and about Palestinian history by offering free... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-11-29 17:20:38 UTC ]
He emerged in the 1950s as a promising young writer exploring the emotional lives of ordinary men and women and the complexities of Jewish identity in America. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-11-20 23:46:03 UTC ]
The author of the “Slow Horses” series says he relates more with failures. With millions of books sold and the third season of the series airing next month, he may have to wrap his head around success. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-11-19 10:00:58 UTC ]
Celebrated British author A.S. Byatt—a scholar and novelist whose 1990 novel, Possession, won the Booker Prize and brought her international renown—has died at the age of 87. A statement released this morning by her longtime UK publisher, Chatto & Windus, reports that Byatt “died peacefully... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-11-17 16:46:10 UTC ]
Academic and intellectual British novelist A.S. Byatt, author of POSSESSION, has died at 87 in her home due to unknown causes. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-11-17 16:23:21 UTC ]
Amid ongoing challenges, Black authors and editors are creating the love stories they want to read. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
Ned Blackhawk received the nonfiction award, with “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-11-16 12:36:45 UTC ]
The literary community holds onto empathy as a dear goal while navigating the complexities of the human experience through the eyes of characters from diverse backgrounds. Readers worldwide have long celebrated the promise of empathy as a conduit for profound understanding, and reading from... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-11-16 09:49:02 UTC ]
Writer and editor Zeke Caligiuri joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to discuss American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion, a new collection of essays on class he co-edited along with eleven other incarcerated writers. The volume’s contributors include Eula Biss, Kao Kalia... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-11-16 09:08:02 UTC ]
The first edition of De Los|Reads features a new fiction book from Mario Vargas Llosa, a cookbook from Sandra A. Gutierrez, several memoirs and a book for children who aren't ready for bed. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-11-16 05:37:22 UTC ]
Broadcaster NDR launches investigation after Hubert Seipel admits receiving support for work on two books on Russian leaderA German publisher has announced a stop to the sale of books authored by a leading journalist and Russia expert after an investigation showed he had received at least... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-11-15 14:31:23 UTC ]
Fei-Fei Li, author of "The Worlds I See," and Joy Buolamwini, author of "Unmasking AI," join the L.A. Times Book Club. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-11-14 20:40:08 UTC ]
Libraries are sacred space within the unending, unrelenting madness, the profane that is Society, places where the predominant ideology is to inform. The Library of Alexandria was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World; the Library of Congress is a wonderfully ( dis )organized... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-11-14 09:35:32 UTC ]
A federal judge said he will dismiss part of a lawsuit filed by a group of authors including comedian Sarah Silverman that claims Meta’s Llama AI application infringes their copyrights. However, a core claim of the suit—that Meta’s use of unauthorized copies to train its AI model is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-11-13 05:00:00 UTC ]