- Cat Valente (one of my favorite authors and human beings) responds in her inimitable way to the chatGPT kerfuffle. (Substack)
- Mark Gollom wades into the latest debate about sensitivity readers, editing, and censorship. (CBC)
- Bridget McGovern writes in praise of audiobooks. (Tor)
- Grace Lapointe has thoughts about ambiguous endings. (Book Riot)
- GD Dess takes a look at the weird world of book blurbing. (The Millions)
- Katie Lumsden argues that the Victorians created what we know of as the modern novel. (LitHub)
- Nicole Rufus profiles the first known Black author of a cookbook, Malinda Russell, and tests some of her recipes. (The Kitchn)
- Merve Emre profiles the life and work of Italo Calvino, who I really need to read more of. (The New Yorker)
- The battle against censorship continues in this week’s dispatch from Book Riot.
I REALLY like that article about the chat AI. Just the other night my husband was showing it off to my on his smartphone- he was excited about what it could do and I kept thinking: no, I do not want to talk to a robot. I’d rather talk to a real person! every time!
I like your new background pattern. Very pretty.
Me, too! I get library questions via our university’s answer bot occasionally and it is spectacularly dumb. I can feel the frustration from the patron as they attempted to get the bot to understand that they only wanted to know what the library hours were during spring break.