This Week's Monstrosity: Sweater Weather Edition
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R.F. Kuang, author of Babel, The Poppy Wars, and Yellowface, talked about how fiction helps us live outside our lived experiences with the TIME podcast.
I don’t read much nonfiction, but I do wholly adore Jenny Odell, author of Saving Time and How to Do Nothing. Her letter to the future from the Sydney Morning Herald is worth the read.
A look at the Books3 dataset being used to power AI from pirated works and triggering the lawsuits over AI use of authors works without their permission.
As Latin American Awareness Month comes to a close, this writer shares why LATAM horror resonates with her (and some great novels to add to your TBR).
It’s sweater weather—time to read something cozy, spooky, windy, weird.
In the Wild
James River Writers Conference, Oct. 8-10
An annual gathering in Richmond, Virginia, that attracts prize-winning authors and poets as well as highly regarded editors and literary agents from around the country to share their wisdom about writing and publishing.
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Note: Even as digital and print are on presale, the Departures audiobook is 50% right now! Go ahead and grab it!