MUST READS By Jane Shilling for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02 BST, 14 September 2023 Updated: 22:02 BST, 14 September 2023 MUST READS Twenty years ago, Lucy Barton and her husband, William, divorced after a 20-year marriage. LUCY BY THE SEA by Elizabeth Strout (Penguin £9.99, 304pp) Twenty years ago, Lucy Barton and her husband, …
Listen closely. Thomas Edison had a vision for audiobooks. In 1877, he invented the phonograph and tested it by reciting “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” Edison believed that the recorded form would be suitable for full-length books and that some books were meant to be heard rather than read. He wrote in the North American …
Linda Byler, a lifelong member of the traditional Amish community, has written a popular romance novel called “Tapestry of Love.” The novel, which tells the story of two young Amish individuals in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has sold nearly a million copies. However, some elders in the community have criticized Byler’s book, believing it promotes sexual abuse. …
Next year, NASA’s Europa Clipper will embark on a remarkable journey of 1.8 billion miles to reach Jupiter’s icy Galilean moon. An exceptional addition to the spacecraft will be a captivating poem engraved on its surface. Penned by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, the poem, titled “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa,” serves …
Generative AI has been a topic of concern due to the secretive nature in which it is being developed. Companies like Meta and OpenAI are using vast amounts of written material to create systems like ChatGPT, which can generate humanlike responses. However, the exact texts these programs are trained on remain largely unknown. A recent …
US booksellers and authors have called for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate Amazon’s alleged monopoly in the industry. The American Booksellers Association, the Authors Guild, and the antitrust nonprofit Open Markets Institute are among the critics who claim that Amazon has unfairly gained control over book sales and has undue influence over which …
Sandra Bullock finds herself in a difficult position as former NFL star Michael Oher makes disturbing claims about his experience with the Tuohy family, who inspired the film “The Blind Side.” Oher alleges that he was never truly adopted by the Tuohys, but they still profited from his success. The film, based on the book …
The advent of easy self-publishing has been a boon for some independent authors, but it has also brought about a new set of challenges. Author Jane Friedman recently discovered that there were several books on Amazon under her name that she didn’t write. These books turned out to be AI-generated, with someone using her name …
This post contains spoilers for Red, White & Royal Blue. “I consider myself one of the fans because it’s undeniable that they love the book for the same reasons that I do,” director and co-writer of Red, White & Royal Blue, Matthew López, shared with Vanity Fair when discussing his approach to Casey McQuiston’s best-selling …
In June of 1953, during a time of intense political scrutiny, the American Library Association and the Association Book Publishers Council released a groundbreaking document called “The Freedom to Read.” This manifesto, issued amidst the McCarthy era, staunchly defended free expression and denounced censorship and conformity. Its message, which resonates even more strongly today, called …