Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

"I believe in an old-fashioned virtue called Doing the Freakin’ Work.

Read the book, not the summary.

Write the piece, not the prompt.

Suffer like the artist you are. It ain’t easy, but if it were easy, it wouldn’t be worth doing."

—Colson Whitehead

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Janklow & Nesbit launches the David Bellos Translation Prize

Janklow & Nesbit has launched the David Bellos Translation Prize, “celebrating outstanding translations of fiction into English and championing global literary voices” 👇 #BookSky

A new series on Charles Dickens takes your favorite Victorian novelist to the streets. This year, the United Kingdom has made books a special cause. The National Year of Reading is a twelve month, government-sponsored campaign to get the citizenry hyped about reading for pleasure. An…

A new three part series about Charles Dickens “has been pitched as a come-up story, with emphasis on Dickens’s flâneur tendencies.”

It is almost impossible to make a living as an author from selling books alone. Less than 1% of authors do it.

‘Soon publishers won’t stand a chance’: literary world in struggle to detect AI-written books US release of horror novel Shy Girl cancelled and UK book discontinued after suspected AI use, as publishers feel ‘cold shiver’

‘Soon publishers won’t stand a chance’: literary world in struggle to detect AI-written books

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A.I. Is Writing Fiction. Publishers Are Unprepared.

"For authors, this is not just a technology, it’s a moral issue. Authors feel their work has been stolen." —Seth Fishman www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...

Appetite for ‘longform, community and joy’ drives surge of new book podcasts

A slate of new book podcasts launched in early 2026, driven, creators say, by a “yearning” for “more analogue living, long-form, in-depth content,” and "curiosity, community and joy.” 👇 #BookSky

“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” —Toni Morrison

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A.I. Is Coming for Culture We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. When machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, though, what’s left for the human imagination?

"I ambled toward Sixth Avenue, passing a stationery store on the south side of the street. The people inside browsed through notebooks, recapturing an analog age. In our different ways, we’re all deciding how we want the story to turn out." —Joshua Rothman www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign

"This is not a victimless crime – generative AI competes with the people whose work it is trained on, robbing them of their livelihoods." —Ed Newton-Rex www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Who belongs in ‘We’? Poet Joshua Bennett reflects on America at 250 Poet and author Dr. Joshua Bennett describes his latest book, “WE (The People of the United States)” as “a book I’ve been writing my entire life.” The collection is divided […]

"Poetry can be a source of healing." —Dr. Joshua Bennett @mit.edu @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social www.wabe.org/who-belongs-...

Please welcome the National Association of Black Bookstores. Today we mark the launch of a new literary institution: the National Association of Black Bookstores. A nonprofit collective and member-based organization, the NAB2 looks to “amplify Black vo…

The National Association of Black Bookstores aims to “amplify Black voices, and preserve Black culture by increasing the visibility, sustainability, and impact of Black bookstores and booksellers.”

The Weight of the Self: On James Merrill’s A Different Person A number of the people I first shared my love of James Merrill’s writing with are gone now, so I write this for them as much as for you. Some of the gone people perished from AIDS, the same disease…

“It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” —Hilton Als

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Hungry for Affirmation, Vulnerable to Scams: As a Writer, I Know the Feeling

Writers, beware— "the current swirl of swindles has created 'the worst environment for writing and publishing scams that I’ve ever seen.'" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/b...

Five great episodes of Michael Silverblatt’s Bookworm, in honor of the late host. Michael Silverblatt, the dedicated host of KCRW’s Bookworm, died last Friday at 73. Bookworm ran from 1989-2022, and was nationally syndicated. Over his thirty years on the airwaves, Silverbl…

"If you can hear us, Mr. Silverblatt—your rigorous reading will be missed." —Brittany K. Allen @britt-kathryn.bsky.social
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When newspapers cut book coverage, communities lose more than reviews - Poynter Authors, critics and booksellers say shrinking coverage weakens local arts, literary culture and the bond between readers and newsrooms

"What we’ve seen in the last decade is diminishing coverage for books across the entire country, and it is really devastating for writers." —Cleyvis Natera @poynterinstitute.bsky.social www.poynter.org/business-wor...

Namwali Serpell celebrates Toni Morrison's literary genius in 'On Morrison' In her new book, award-winning novelist Namwali Serpell takes on Toni Morrison, one of the towering figures in American literature. Serpell guides readers through Morrison’s extraordinary body of work...

"I think (Toni) Morrison wanted to go back to what she described as village literature, which is a notion that literature is a social form, it's a community form... It has to open up questions so that we can talk about it as a community." —Namwali Serpell www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Cristina Rivera Garza on Writing a Genre-Blending Excavation of Family History I have long admired the work of Cristina Rivera Garza, the much lauded writer of novels, short stories, poetry, essays and criticism, translator, University of Houston Distinguished Professor, foun…

"Change me, drastically if possible. Transform me. Make me other. That’s what I ask of books—both when I read them and when I write them." —Cristina Rivera Garza lithub.com/cristina-riv...

"We believe that everyone in our country deserves meaningful access to the veracity, beauty, imagination, and continual revelation that the arts and humanities provide." —Elizabeth Alexander, President of @mellon.org, a co-founder of the Literary Arts Fund

One of the First Big Anti-AI Campaigns From Hollywood Is Launching Now Writers, actors and other musicians have come out in support of the Human Artistry Campaign’s “Stealing Isn’t Innovation” push for licensing and opt-out mechanisms for human-created works.

Writers George Saunders, Roxane Gay, and Jodi Picoult, among others, have joined the Human Artistry Campaign's "Stealing Isn't Innovation" effort to protest tech companies using copyrighted creative work without permission to build AI language models. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Poem: ‘E = mc²’ Science in meter and verse

then let us believe
the product of our lives
is greater than the sum of us

—Elaine Mintzer

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The pain, and joy, of Rachel Eliza Griffiths' writing journey Rachel Eliza Griffiths is releasing her memoir, “The Flower Bearers,” after enduring profound personal tragedies.

Rachel Eliza Griffiths is releasing her memoir, "The Flower Bearers," after enduring profound personal tragedies.

Writing Toward the Void: Larissa Pham on Facing Your Fears in Fiction What’s the scariest scenario you can imagine? Mine goes something like this: Imagine a woman wrote a book—no, a revenge fantasy—about a mentor who abused his power. What if that book’s subject enco…

“Writing, which is a kind of paying attention, can be an act of love, an illumination...” —Larissa Pham @literaryhub.bsky.social
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Somali Author Shugri Salh on the Power of Words Shugri Salh, author of the memoir ‘The Last Nomad,’ reflects on her picture book debut, ‘Suuban’s First Day,’ current events, and how words have the capacity both to heal and to harm.

"Words can empower or break a person, a community, a nation. But when we share stories with one another, we are reminded of our shared humanity." —Shugri Salh

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Literary Arts Fund created to rekindle a love for reading According to a recent study, reading for pleasure has fallen by 40% in the last 20 years, continuing a long-running downward trend. By many measures, reading skills for both students and adults contin...

"We don't survive if we don't figure out how to hear, respect and see each other. And I think that literature has superpowers to do that." —Elizabeth Alexander, poet and President of the
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The Benefits of Reading Two Books at Once Pairing a book for focus with one for escape makes reading richer.

"The benefit of reading more than one book at a time is that no matter how different the two books are, they always end up speaking to each other in ways I couldn’t have imagined." —Laura Dave time.com/7344842/read...