Of course, selling books is as much a business as selling grill brushes. But the gross margins are small, and bookstore owners tend to be what the sociologist Laura Miller calls “reluctant capitalists.” - The New Yorker
Unsurprisingly, the arrival of fully fledged generative AI has done nothing to improve the situation for commercial translators. But there’s no impact on literary translators, right? Wrong. - Eurozine
The dilatoriness that used to be such a feature of the literary world in the days when it relied on the postal service and the telephone has, you suspect, been somewhat allayed by the forward march of technology. - The Critic
Ingram's filters had mistakenly identified the book as having been generated using AI—a mistake indicative of the AI moment we now find ourselves in. - Publishers Weekly
“During the Renaissance, no translator had to apologize for following her instincts to champion the work of one of the most extraordinary, under-recognized writers of her time. Oh how the mighty have fallen?” - Three Quarks Daily
Jason Diamond: "I’ve often heard this discussed as some existential problem that might be impossible to tackle, as if people have thrown up their hands and agreed that, yup, men and fiction just don’t mix. I’m perplexed by this, … and I’ve come to the conclusion we’re going about fixing things all wrong." - GQ
From the best places to read to poets of note in each state, this map is a treasure trove of some of the best writers the U.S. has given the literary world. - LitHub
After some anger and grief, and years of frustration, this is what happens now when news sites die: “Former DCist reporter Colleen Grablick remembers fellow DCist coworker Maddie Poore asking: ‘Local news co-op, when?’” - Nieman Lab
"Some, such as Yahoo, Puck, and New York Times Opinion, have launched new Reddit accounts in the last several months. Others, such as Rolling Stone, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Independent, the AP, and Newsweek, have restarted existing accounts or dedicated more resources to them." - Adweek
Many parts of the ancient Babylonian tale are still missing, and searching through hundreds of thousands of surviving cuneiform fragments to separate portions of the narrative from, say, private letters or sales receipts is slow and tedious. A new AI project has led to "extreme acceleration" in the field. - The New York Times
Well … no. “For all the tonal confusion of Hoover’s novels, readers continue to gravitate toward the repetitive writing and heavy emphasis on shocking twists.” - The Atlantic
The author has been checking out Goodreads to “see how the average enthusiastic reader has been responding to this book. It is in equal parts some of the greatest validation I’ve ever received and the most terrifying cultural report I’ve ever read.” - The Guardian (UK)
The list of winners seems innocuous, but it comes with a link to a report that details everything possible, along with a link to the full statistics. Why? Last year’s edition was rife with censorship, and this year had its own ballot-stuffing issues. - Glasgow Worldcon
