Until now, the earliest example of the genre was thought to be Will Eisner's 1978 A Contract with God. What's just turned up is Voyage and Adventures of a Good Little German in Kangarooland, by a new immigrant in Australia sent to an internment camp there during WWI. - ArtsHub (Australia)
Writer’s block is a luxury she can’t afford, which is why as soon as she heard about an artificial intelligence tool designed to break through it, she started beseeching its developers on Twitter for access to the beta test. The tool was called Sudowrite. - The Verge
"Around 100 employees and additional supporters (were) marching in front of the company's corporate headquarters in Manhattan in the sticky heat for higher wages, better family leave benefits and a stronger commitment to diversity from the company." - The New York Times
The tension reflects the paragraph’s curious history as a punctuation mark and unit of thought. In fact, what is a paragraph? only gets more complicated as we gaze further and further into the past, as the paragraph gradually dwindles to a thin line in the margins. - Hedgehog Review
Although the challenging of books and curriculum is hardly new in the United States, what we’re facing now is somewhat different. It is not parents or even school boards driving many of these challenges. It is the power of the state. - Los Angeles Times
"A new dictionary — the Oxford Dictionary of African American English — will attempt to codify the contributions and capture the rich relationship Black Americans have with the English language." The book is a project of Oxford University Press and Harvard's Hutchins Center." - The New York Times
In a 40-part tweetstorm, Erin Overbey argued that she was put under a performance review after complaining that female and male staffers at the magazine were not treated equally — and that, during her review period, errors were put into her work in an attempt to trap her. - The Daily Beast
The big-firm plaintiffs' brief accuses the Internet Archive of "mass-scale copyright infringement" and giving away "full-text digital bootlegs for free." (The Archive's Open Library does the same limited-time lending that public libraries do.) The companies seem really to want to legally establish ebooks as completely different from print books. - The Nation
“There’s so much love from the film and television industry for books, Whether it’s scouts or producers or buyers, there’s a huge passion for books in a way that feels even stronger at times than original screenwriting projects.” - The Walrus
No, these aren't about Sylvia Plath (who was Hughes's first wife): they're about Assia Wevill, who took up with Hughes (her landlord at the time) the year before Plath gassed herself — as Wevill did, along with her daughter by Hughes, six years later. - The Guardian
Sometimes, it's easier to attack serious subjects with biting satire - and for Black authors, though that's not exactly new, it is having a bit of a resurgence. - The New York Times
The group founder: "I don't hear about romance novels taking place in Alberta — with Black people. There are Black people in Alberta, Edmonton and Calgary. I don't hear about Black romance taking place in Nova Scotia. There are Black people there, too, and in Ontario." - CBC
Filippo Bernardini allegedly impersonated numerous authors, agents, and others in order to obtain unpublished manuscripts — for reasons nobody yet understands. Now his first court date has been postponed while a deferred prosecution request is considered. - The Guardian
"What happens when legacy magazines can no longer rely on their reputation to get readers, let alone party invites? Condé Nast's magazines, especially Carter's Vanity Fair, used a strategy of exclusion to generate a sense of luxury. ... Can any publishing project today succeed on that basis alone?" - The Nation
"The assumption that 'a gay book' is necessarily a sexualized book, and therefore inappropriate for children, is baked into the language of 'Don’t Say Gay,'" the censorious, proudly homophobic Florida law that Republicans would like to pass and enforce everywhere. - The New Yorker
