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Amazon to require some authors to disclose the use of AI material

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James Patterson, Margaret Atwood among thousands of writers urging AI companies to honor copyrights

James Patterson, Suzanne Collins and Margaret Atwood are among thousands of writers endorsing an open letter from the Authors Guild urging AI companies to obtain permission before incorporating copyrighted work into their technologies.

Late British novelist Martin Amis knighted by King Charles in his first birthday honors list

Martin Amis, one of the most consequential British authors of his generation and who died last month, has been posthumously knighted by King Charles III in his first birthday honors list, which were unveiled late Friday.

Book thief in plot that duped famous authors avoids prison

It was the stuff of novels: For years, a con artist plagued the publishing industry, impersonating editors and agents to pull off hundreds of literary heists.

Con artist pleads guilty in phishing plot that duped authors

A yearslong saga that ensnared the publishing world has culminated in a New York courtroom where a con artist has pleaded guilty to a plot defrauding scores of authors by duping them into handing over hundreds of unpublished manuscripts.

'Expressive times': Publishing industry an open book in 2022

Along with the thousands of books it released in 2022, the publishing industry also offered โ€” not always willingly โ€” some stories about itself.

Russia bans 100 Canadians including Atwood, Jim Carrey

Russiaโ€™s Foreign Ministry has announced that 100 Canadians have been added to the list of people banned from entering the country in response to sanctions against Russia by Canada.

Naomi Alderman novel 'The Future' scheduled for next fall

Novelist Naomi Alderman is a โ€œwhat ifโ€ kind of writer, as in: What if women were endowed with the ability to electrocute others.

New this week: 'The Handmaidโ€™s Tale' and 'Goodnight Mommy'

This weekโ€™s new entertainment releases include albums from Little Big Town and Marcus Mumford, โ€œThe Handmaidโ€™s Taleโ€ returns with high stakes for the future of Gilead, and twin brothers go to their motherโ€™s house for a stay but find something is off about her in the film โ€œGoodnight Mommy.โ€.

'Unburnable' copy of Handmaid's Tale auctioned for $130,000

A specially commissioned, unburnable edition of Margaret Atwoodโ€™s โ€œThe Handmaidโ€™s Taleโ€ has been auctioned for $130,000, Sothebyโ€™s announced Tuesday.

Burn-proof edition of 'The Handmaid's Tale' up for auction

Margaret Atwood has imagined apocalyptic disaster, Dystopian government and an author faking her own death.

Florida has 3rd largest number of school book ban incidents, report says

There have been more than 200 instances of public school districts in Florida banning books since last July.

Greta Thunberg aims to drive change with โ€˜The Climate Bookโ€™

Climate activist Greta Thunberg has compiled a handbook for tackling the worldโ€™s interconnected environmental crises, with contributions from leading scientists and writers.

Zadie Smith to receive PEN America literary service award

Author Zadie Smith is this yearโ€™s winner of the PEN/Audible Literary Service Award, an honor previously given to Toni Morrison, Stephen Sondheim and Margaret Atwood among others.

2021 in Books: `Everything feels magnified'

In 2021, few in the publishing industry worried that no one cared about books anymore.

'I'm so lucky': Elton John receives prestigious UK award

Elton John has formally received one of the highest awards that can be bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II.

Booker winner Damon Galgut laments South Africa's gloom

South African author Damon Galgut won the Booker Prize for fiction on Nov. 3 for his novel โ€œThe Promise,โ€ the story of a white South African family in decline in the years before and after the end of the racist apartheid system.

Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel literature prize

Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel literature prize

Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Post Hill Press goes on with book by officer in Taylor raid

Post Hill Press goes on with book by officer in Taylor raid

The publisher of memoir by a Louisville police officer who fired at Breonna Taylor after being shot during the deadly raid on Taylorโ€™s apartment says it will release the book even though its distributor, Simon & Schuster, announced it would โ€œnot be involved.โ€.

Birds as revelations: Atwood writes foreword for Gibson book

Birds as revelations: Atwood writes foreword for Gibson book

This cover image released by Doubleday shows The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany, an illustrated compilation of folktales, poems, fiction and nonfiction by Graeme Gibson. โ€œThe Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany," an illustrated compilation of folktales, poems, fiction and nonfiction that Gibson had assembled on his own, was originally published in 2005. Nothing could be more magnificent.โ€โ€œThe Bedside Book of Birdsโ€ is divided into nine sections โ€” โ€œhabitats,โ€ Gibson called them โ€” that center on such themes as birds as omens, as revelations, avengers and mysteries. The Cold War had ended, the Berlin Wall had come down in 1989 and people were saying things like โ€˜the end of history.โ€™ That was wrong, wrong, wrong,โ€ Atwood said. They're very smart, and they have very long memories.โ€In his book, Gibson also describes an unexpected bond with a parrot named Harold Wilson.

Atwood, Grisham among contributors to pandemic novel

Atwood, Grisham among contributors to pandemic novel

Atwood and Grisham are among several authors participating in a novel about the pandemic. The Authors Guild Foundation announced Thursday that it had reached a deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media to publish Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering." (AP Photo)NEW YORK โ€“ One of the first novels about the pandemic will be a collaborative effort, with Margaret Atwood, John Grisham and Celeste Ng among the writers. Novelist and Authors Guild President Douglas Preston came up with the idea as a way to raise money for the foundation. Atwood is editing โ€œFourteen Daysโ€ and helped recruit a wide range of contributors, including Dave Eggers, Ishmael Reed, Monique Truong, Hampton Sides, Mary Pope Osborne and Emma Donoghue.

Q&A: Isabel Allende on feminism, TV series, love in pandemic

Q&A: Isabel Allende on feminism, TV series, love in pandemic

NEW YORK โ€“ Isabel Allende is not only the worldโ€™s most widely read Spanish-language author but also a self-declared and outspoken feminist. She also reflects on the #MeToo movement, the recent social unrest in Chile and the global pandemic. AdDuring the interview, Allende recalled her beginnings as a feminist and also spoke about her experience as a 78-year-old โ€œnewlywedโ€ in confinement. Allende: The year of the pandemic has had everything paralyzed, but things continue to move forward. AdAllende: Well, because what a writer needs is time, silence and solitude, and the pandemic has given me that.

As 'Handmaid's Tale' returns, creator sees no end in sight

As 'Handmaid's Tale' returns, creator sees no end in sight

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, file photo, Elisabeth Moss attends the "The Handmaid's Tale" season three finale red carpet at the Regency Village Theatre, in Los Angeles. The drama series fourth season begins April 28, 2021, and will include 10 episodes. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)LOS ANGELES โ€“ As โ€œThe Handmaidโ€™s Taleโ€ returns in April for season four, its creator is reluctant to predict when the dystopian drama will be ready for its final act. โ€œEvery time I come upon a season, I donโ€™t have any idea what weโ€™re going to do,โ€ said Bruce Miller. โ€œThe Handmaid's Taleโ€ is already renewed for another season, but the 10-episode arc that begins April 28 doesnโ€™t hold back on playing out story lines, Miller said.

Fauci wins $1 million Israeli prize for 'defending science'

Fauci wins $1 million Israeli prize for 'defending science'

Fauci won a $1 million award from the Israeli Dan David Foundation for courageously defending science during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)TEL AVIV โ€“ Dr. Anthony Fauci has won the $1 million Dan David Prize for โ€œdefending scienceโ€ and advocating for vaccines now being administered worldwide to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The Israel-based Dan David Foundation on Monday named President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser as the winner of one of three prizes. AdBiden's election, Fauci said, was โ€œliberating.โ€The Dan David Prize, established in 2000, gives $1 million awards in three categories each year for contributions addressing the past, present and future. Fauci won the prize for achievement in the โ€œpresent,โ€ in the field of public health, the foundation said.

Event organizer drops BookExpo, annual publishing convention

Event organizer drops BookExpo, annual publishing convention

The annual publishing convention and trade show, a decades-old tradition, may be coming to an end. ReedPop, which has managed BookExpo for a quarter century, announced Tuesday that it was dropping the event, along with the fan-based BookCon. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)NEW YORK โ€“ The annual publishing convention and trade show known as BookExpo, a decades-old tradition where guest speakers have ranged from Bill Clinton to Margaret Atwood, may be coming to an end. โ€œAmong the many traditions we greatly missed this year was having an industry event that brings together booksellers, authors and publishers," he said. "ABA is exploring new ways to bring booksellers, publishers, and authors together in the future.

'Shuggie Bain' writer Douglas Stuart wins Booker Prize

'Shuggie Bain' writer Douglas Stuart wins Booker Prize

LONDON โ€“ Scottish writer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction Thursday for โ€œShuggie Bain,โ€ the story of a boyโ€™s turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow. Stuart, 44, won the prestigious 50,000 pound ($66,000) award for his first published novel, the product of a decade of work. Stuart dedicated the book to own mother, who died when he was 16. Though there have been many British winners of the Booker Prize, most of them English, Stuart is the first Scottish victor since James Kelman took the 1994 prize with โ€œHow Late it Was, How Lateโ€ โ€” a book Stuart has called an inspiration. Mantel won the Booker for both its predecessors, โ€œWolf Hallโ€ and โ€œBring up the Bodies,โ€ and had been widely tipped for the hat trick.

American poet Louise Glรผck wins Nobel Prize in Literature

American poet Louise Glรผck wins Nobel Prize in Literature

American poet Louise Gluck speaks with the media, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, outside her home in Cambridge, Mass. Gluck, a professor of English at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., won the 2020 Nobel Prize for literature "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)STOCKHOLM โ€“ Louise Glรผck, an American poet long revered for the power, inventiveness and concision of her work and for her generosity to younger writers, has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. โ€œAs one of our most celebrated American poets, we are thrilled that Louise Glรผck has received this yearโ€™s Nobel Prize in Literature," Michael Jacobs, chairman of the Academy of American Poets, said in a statement. In 2018, the award was postponed after sex abuse allegations rocked the Swedish Academy, which names the Nobel literature committee, and sparked a mass exodus of members.

Alexie, Pilkey books among most 'challenged' of past decade

Alexie, Pilkey books among most 'challenged' of past decade

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2016 file photo, author and filmmaker Sherman Alexie appears at a celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day at Seattle's City Hall. Alexie is included in a list of authors who wrote books that were among the 100 most subjected to censorship efforts over the past decade, as compiled by the American Library Association. All wrote books that were among the 100 most subjected to censorship efforts over the past decade, as compiled by the American Library Association. The association does not formally count the number of times books are actually removed from a library shelf or from a school reading list. โ€œThere are actually two lines of objections to the Anne Frank diary,โ€ Caldwell-Stone says.

Margaret Atwood honored with Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Margaret Atwood honored with Dayton Literary Peace Prize

The Canadian writer and teacher has earned the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, officials of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize officials announced Monday. The award is named for the late U.S. diplomat who brokered the 1995 Bosnian peace accords reached in the Ohio city. Some readers of โ€œThe Handmaid's Taleโ€ saw in the leaders of authoritarian Gilead similarities to the rise of Republican Donald Trump to president in the election of 2016. Sharon Rab, the founder and chairwoman of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, praised Atwood for popular success with writing that also educates people about pressing social justice and environmental issues. โ€œThe Testaments,โ€ her 2019 sequel to โ€œThe Handmaid's Tale,โ€ quickly joined her bestsellers.

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