“Hammering hearts and thumping chests”: Authors are increasingly using AI to write their books for them, with predictable results
The smart ones will at least make a fortune for themselves before they are replaced by machines altogether.
ACP, TWUC come out in opposition to newly implemented Alberta schools book ban
"Selective bans are still censorship."
Black lives, white rage: Two new books re-examine the Bernie Goetz subway vigilante case
Both Thompson and Williams attempt to draw direct connections between the societal cleavages the Goetz case brought into stark relief and the current polarization of political sentiment in the U.S.
Raymond Chandler via Albert Camus: Some thoughts on James Sallis, who died in January at the age of eighty-one
"James Sallis writes in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, albeit via Albert Camus."
The Washington Post shutters its books section among massive layoffs
The move is particularly ironic given that Bezos made his billions off an internet retail site dedicated to selling books.
“Maybe writers have our own separate hell”: Lindsay Wong talks about villain hitting, corpse marriage, and her debut novel
"Villain hitting is what women do when they have no choice."
Hot for teacher: Jennette McCurdy’s debut novel, about a high-school student’s affair with her creative writing instructor, intends to provoke
McCurdy's method is predicated upon an ironic distance between Waldo's narration and the reader's ability to see through it.
A deal with the Devil: How a ninety-year-old novel from a Nobel Prize winner’s son maps onto our current political moment
Mann's novel closely mines the contradictions in his protagonist's character.
Ottawa’s Mark Bourrie recognized as a recipient of the Governor General’s History Award
Administered by Canada's National History Society, the awards, which were established in 1996, are given out in five categories.
Oh, Canada: Former CBC head Richard Stursberg critiques our current literary climate in a new long essay
Stursberg diagnoses a number of maladies causing our current situation, some more persuasive than others.