Richard Hughes Gibson looks to Italo Calvino to help wade through the AI-generated text and art kerfuffle. (The Hedgehog Review)
Ed Simon also worries about what AI-generated text might do to literature and art. (The Millions)
Molly Templeton searches for books with the right vibe for her mood. I can totally sympathize. (Tor)
Annika Barranti Klein wrestles with a definition of literary fiction. I don’t blame her; I wrestle with the concept, too, since many definitions I’ve read mostly describe the genre in terms of what it isn’t. (Book Riot)
I’m not sure how I feel about Illinois’s HB 2789, which would make public libraries ineligible for state funding if they don’t adopt anti-book banning policies, given that some communities are willing to defund their libraries over “objectionable” books. Praveena Somasundaram reports. (Washington Post)
Kelly Jenson reports on efforts by University of California-Berkeley students to save the Anthropology Library. I wish them luck! (Book Riot)
Jennie Rothenberg Gritz talks to historian Alejandra Dubcovsky and linguist Aaron Broadwell about their efforts to recover the Timucua language, spoken by Indigenous people in Florida and Georgia; colonialism; missionaries; and texts that might hold lost history. (Smithsonian Magazine)
Kate Golembiewski has thoughts about what we can learn from botanical horror and being freaked out by plants that can kill us. (Atlas Obscura)
Ashawnta Jackson explores censorship through the lens of wild (and sometimes) deadly riots at the theater in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The cartoon at the top of the post is worth the price of admission. (Daily JSTOR)
K.W. Colyard sprinkles tons of recommendations into this plea for more genre blends. (Book Riot)
