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'Discipline' by Debra Spark and 'Bad Animals' by Sarah Braunstein both came out this month. The teaching colleagues are holding a joint book launch event Thursday in Portland.

The 2024 L.A. Times Festival of Books lineup features RuPaul, Ariana Madix, Kerry Washington, Lauren Graham and more, including high-profile chef José Andrés.

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The rise of AI poses an insidious threat to fiction. Is there still time to save the novel from AI collaborators?

I've been a big Jonathan Lethem fan for a while. A friend introduced me to his books a while back, and I've read them all at some point or another. He's an enjoyable and entertaining writer, and I was thrilled when I recently heard about his new Promiscuous Materials project, where he offered up a…

Posts about academia written by Mike Masnick, Techdirt, and Michael Ho

There’s plenty of hypocrisy and bad faith to go around in the ridiculous Claudine Gay plagiarism scandal. While Gay’s accusers are right that she technically violated Harvard’s plagiarism rules by copying phrases either without quotation marks or required attribution, they don’t actually care about plagiarism, only “scalping” Gay. What’s more, their own plagiarism accusations have…

Posts about claudine gay written by Mike Masnick

There is nearly no end to the things people collect.

Novelists in Brooklyn draw inspiration from the New York borough’s cast of thousands, and particularly from its idiosyncratic neighborhoods.