"Newsletter company Substack, which reportedly struggled to fundraise last year amid a broader downturn in the tech market, wants its next round of financing to come directly from its pool of writers." - Quartz
The question of where a story should begin and end is one that recurs throughout “White Cat, Black Dog,” and is part of what gives the stories a melancholy air of flux and fragility. - The New Yorker
Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries written between 1920 and 1976 have had passages reworked or removed in new editions published by HarperCollins to strip them of language and descriptions that modern audiences find offensive. - The Guardian
Learning how to catalogue properly is an essential part of bookselling, though exactly what constitutes “properly” will change depending on who you ask. - LitHub
"The last decade has seen a flurry of illustrated Korean cookbooks, one-panel satirical comics about South Asian chai, and graphic novels about Japanese-American culinary history. No matter the focus, each cartoon offers vivid depictions of the artists' beloved foods." - Atlas Obscura
“The bad handwriting specifically comes from I’m thinking too fast for my hand. I feel like being able to type as quickly as I’m thinking I have this like great advantage where I don’t have to worry about legibility.” - The New York Times
The culture editors at El País had been considering starting a reading group for several years, but they only went ahead and launched the project in late 2022. In five months, the club had grown to over 1,100 members in Spain and Latin America. - Nieman Lab
"The decision marks an end to 68 years of publication, starting with its founding in 1954 by Ronnie Dugger and including a six-year period under the helm of the legendary Molly Ivins from 1970 to 1976." - The Texas Tribune
For all the opportunities ChatGPT might bring, its greatest threat right now is to the teaching of writing. There are other ways to assess students’ knowledge: oral exams, multiple-choice tests, handwritten answers. So what is the university paper for? - The Walrus
"The four publishing houses — Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons and Penguin Random House — accused the Internet Archive of 'mass copyright infringement' for loaning out digital copies of books without the publishers' permission." - NPR
Esther Yi's Y/N is a reference to "a type of fan fiction that allows readers to insert their name into that slot and imagine themselves as part of the story." - NPR
When a journalist doesn't find the story he wants, the thing to do probably isn't to write a long piece that pokes fun at the writer, his writing, the food in Utah, the writer's family, the writer's fans, and what the writer wears. - LitHub
The novel? Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin. The irony? The novel is partly about women not getting enough credit for their own game design. - Washington Post
Ling Ma won for her short story collection and Isaac Butler for his nonfiction work The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act. - Los Angeles Times
As book banning efforts intensify—along with assaults on women’s bodily autonomy and on the AP African American studies curriculum—old-school feminist bookstores and new intersectional feminist stores alike are drawing customers seeking safe spaces for buying books and gathering information. - Publishers Weekly
