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Margo Howard, Reluctant Columnist and Daughter of Ann Landers, Dies at 86 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/45nGv7D

Margo Howard, Reluctant Columnist and Daughter of Ann Landers, Dies at 86

She published two books about her famous mother but didn’t fully embrace the family business until her late 50s, when she began writing “Dear Prudence” for Slate.

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DOJ Uses James Comey’s Novel in Its Case Against Him 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/cGQ4Uh0

DOJ Uses James Comey’s Novel in Its Case Against Him

Federal prosecutors pointed to the former FBI director’s legal thriller FDR Drive in its argument to press criminal charges against Comey for allegedly threatening to kill President Donald Trump. PEN...

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LOC’s National Book Festival Expands Cultural Programming 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/ZXAKCSe

LOC’s National Book Festival Expands Cultural Programming

Authors and speakers at this year’s event will represent the many collections of the Library of Congress, including its vast music and film holdings, while C-SPAN and WETA will record selected...

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Academic Publishers Develop Guidelines, Screening Tools for AI Use 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/7EGxOaq

Academic Publishers Develop Guidelines, Screening Tools for AI Use - Publishers Lunch

Just as booksellers are inundated with AI slop and publishing is reckoning with suspicions of AI-written books, academic publishing is facing similar issues—and their approaches to the problem,...

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Victor Niederhoffer, Trader Who Went Boom and Bust (Twice), Dies at 82 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/UgGkiYN

Victor Niederhoffer, Trader Who Went Boom and Bust (Twice), Dies at 82

He pioneered a technique for using computers to predict short-term movements in stock prices, something that proved to be hugely lucrative — when it worked.

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Book Review: ‘The Breakup,’ by Kurt Andersen 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/Nj7mDvy

It’s Not You, It’s America

In Kurt Andersen’s new novel, “The Breakup,” a family navigates a nation ruptured by civil war.

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'The Dog Stars' novelist Peter Heller drew on real-life survival skills 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/JHjTf6m

'The Dog Stars' novelist Peter Heller drew on real-life survival skills

Heller's 2012 novel about a man who survives a super flu that kills most of humanity is now being adapted to film. Adventure writer Heller drew from his own life. Originally broadcast in 2012.

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The Right Content, the Right Partner, the Right Deal – Frankfurt Rights 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/OtI6U2R

The Right Content, the Right Partner, the Right Deal – Frankfurt Rights

Working to support the international rights business throughout the year, the Frankfurt Rights platform assists with rights discovery, contacts and licensing activity year-round, and even automates...

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7 Graphic Novels That Build Stories from Fragments 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/LAFSDIb

7 Graphic Novels That Build Stories from Fragments - Electric Literature

These authors use collage, photography, and handmade techniques to give physical form to memory and identity

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Guest Post — Your Next Reader Is a Machine, and We Are Ready 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/CvDsrEV

Guest Post — Your Next Reader Is a Machine, and We Are Ready - The Scholarly Kitchen

Machine readers replacing human readers can sound like a threat. Today's post argues that our community is well prepared to face these challenges and seize the opportunities.

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Book Review: ‘Life of M,’ by Rachel Cusk 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/IrN8AiZ

Can Celebrities Be People, Too? In a New Novel, Rachel Cusk Isn’t Sure.

Though full of details that echo the life and career of Natalie Portman, “Life of M” remains chilly and abstract.

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Jeff Jarvis on Mark Twain, America’s First Celebrity Author and Publisher 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/XUWcSFR

Jeff Jarvis on Mark Twain, America’s First Celebrity Author and Publisher

In the history of the invention of the typesetting machine and the consequent birth of mass media, Mark Twain is the Zelig of our tale, returning frequently as a typesetter in his brother’s ratty n…

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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/rLKMn04

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Anjet Daanje’s The Song of Stork and Dromedary, Joby Warrick’s The Jackal, and Dorthe Nors’ Range all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home…

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Book Review: ‘Life of M,’ by Rachel Cusk 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/P5Wpwgo

Can Celebrities Be People, Too? In a New Novel, Rachel Cusk Isn’t Sure.

Though full of details that echo the life and career of Natalie Portman, “Life of M” remains chilly and abstract.

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8 Books on Celebrity for Readers of 'Life of M' 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/a7sriyJ

8 Books on Celebrity for Readers of 'Life of M'

Rachel Cusk’s slippery novel, about an author’s friendship with an actor who bears similarities to Natalie Portman, is the latest in a long line of literature on the nature of celebrity.

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Life of M by Rachel Cusk review – is this story of a film star based on Natalie Portman? 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/fz3G7ld

Life of M by Rachel Cusk review – is this story of a film star based on Natalie Portman?

A teasing tale of the friendship between a writer and an actor explores the fallout from fame, and the blurring between pretence and reality

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Bindery Enlists ‘Last Podcast on the Left’ for Fiction Imprint 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/jWSbfCX

Bindery Enlists ‘Last Podcast on the Left’ for Fiction Imprint

The popular horror and true crime podcast cohosted by Ed Larson, Marcus Parks, and Henry Zebrowski is branching into books with the influencer-driven publisher. Last Press on the Left will launch in...

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How I’ve Tried to Change the World by Alexei Sayle review – does protest make a difference? 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/FXkKfcL

How I’ve Tried to Change the World by Alexei Sayle review – does protest make a difference?

The comedian charts his life in demos from 1960s Liverpool to 2020s London in this fiery and addictive book

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WNBA Relaunches Pannell Award for 2026 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/AjP5VFa

WNBA Relaunches Pannell Award for 2026

The Women’s National Book Association has announced the return of the bookstore prize, which has been on pause since 2020 due to the pandemic and its aftermath.

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Book Bar Is a Buzzy Addition to Toronto’s Literary Scene 📚 ⤵️ ift.tt/4nYJeO3

Book Bar Is a Buzzy Addition to Toronto’s Literary Scene

The sleek new bookstore and events space, inspired by Book Club Bar in New York City, has built a strong social media following that has translated into an eager clientele hungry for literary...

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