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Book review: Fallout by Lesley Parr
Nation.Cymru
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June 29, 2025
Fallout, Lesley Parr, Bloomsbury We continue our reviews of books shortlisted for this year’s Wales Book of the Year award. Fallout is one of 12 English language books shortlisted for the 2025 Wales Book of the Year. You can vote for this year’s...
Anthropic Shredded Millions of Physical Books to Train its AI
Futurism
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June 29, 2025
Today in schnozz-smashing on-the-nose metaphors for the AI industry's rapacious destruction of the arts: exactly how Anthropic gathered the data it needed to train its Claude AI model. As Ars Technica reports, the Google-backed startup didn't just...
The Supreme Court Virtually Torched LGBTQ Books for Young Students
The Good Men Project - California
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June 29, 2025
As wisely and eloquently stated by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his 1839 play, Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy, “the pen is mightier than the sword,” this adage holds that the written word is a powerful tool in the transmission of ideas....
Stratford author writes adventure book series for young adults
CBC/Radio-Canada
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June 29, 2025
3 hours ago News Duration 2:06 It's a "swashbuckling adventure." That's how Stratford author Jessica Seguin describes her series of books The Five Quarters. With the first three books of the series now published, Seguin is hoping to release the...
Summer books 2025: Get lost in our shelves
The Daily News - New York
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Summer reading, if you ask me, should meander, without a plan. Pick up, put down, misplace, leave crusty with sand or warped with humidity. Fall is for rigor, winter for hunkering down, spring for peering ahead, but the right summer read is a...
Books that provide a variety of summer fun for kids while school is out
The Guam Daily Post
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Okay, so school’s been out for slightly more than 35 seconds and you’re already in bad need of something interesting to do. You’re done with your chores, finished that puzzle Mom bought, and you’re so over the stuff in your room. Maybe you need...
Review: A new biography goes long and deep on the rise and fall of rock band Talking Heads
The Post & Courier - South Carolina
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June 29, 2025
BURNING DOWN HE HOUSE: Talking Heads and the New York Scene that Transformed Rock. By Jonathan Gould. Mariner Books. 512 pages. $35. Talking Heads fans, rejoice! Hard on the heels of the re-release of “Stop Making Sense,” the 1984 Jonathan Demme...
Is the 'artist's life' worth it? An author tries to answer the question
NBC News
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June 29, 2025
Is living an artist's life worth the sacrifice? “The writing life,” author Stephanie Elizondo Griest says, “is like the ultimate hazing experience, because it tests you at every level. You are continually confronted with rejection — plus how are...
One Ingenious Author Focus-Grouped His New Novel. The Results Are Hilarious.
Slate Magazine
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June 29, 2025
In the 1990s, the Russian-born conceptual artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired professional polling firms to survey 1,001 people about what they liked most and least in a painting. The artworks they created using this information, the...
'You Are My Sunshine' and ex-Louisiana Gov. Jimmie Davis are eternally bound, author writes
The Advocate - Louisiana
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“You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song,” by Robert Mann, Louisiana State University Press, 216 pages “You Are My Sunshine" is one of the most popular songs in the world. It has been recorded by more than 300 artists, and it...
How Claude AI Clawed Through Millions Of Books
Forbes
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The race to build the most advanced artificial intelligence generative AI technology has continued to be a story about data: who possesses it, who seeks it, and what methods they use for its acquisition. A recent federal court ruling involving...
CLAMP Official Art Books Coming from Yen Press and Kodansha USA
Bleeding Cool - Illinois
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June 29, 2025
Posted in: Comics, Manga, Yen Press | Tagged: Cardcaptor Sakura, Chobits, CLAMP Official Art Books, Clover, kodansha usa, Kuro, manga, shiro, xxxHOLiC, Yen Press Two CLAMP Official Artbooks, SHIRO and KURO, showcasing CLAMP's 30-year manga career,...
Reading books is the new sexy
The Citizen (South Africa)
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June 29, 2025
Reading is the new sexy, books are back, and they’re printed, from bookstores. Over the past few years people have... Reading is the new sexy, books are back, and they’re printed, from bookstores. Over the past few years people have started...
Documentary portrayal of a Sāmoan author becomes deeper story about mental health
Pacific Media Network
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Director Kimberlee Bassford set out to make a film about a respected Sāmoan writer, but instead found herself confronting deep-rooted taboos around mental illness in Pacific communities. The highly anticipated documentary Before the Moon Falls, an...
Author-Actor Advait Kottary Talks About ‘Siddhartha: The Boy Who Became The Buddha’ And His Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar Win
Free Press Journal
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June 29, 2025
When author-actor Advait Kottary learnt that he had won the coveted Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar (English) for 2025 for his debut book, Siddhartha: The Boy Who Became The Buddha, he immediately called his parents. He says, “They’re the first...
Children’s author Khyrunnisa A on her latest book in the ‘Butterfingers’ series
The Hindu
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June 29, 2025
Children’s author Khyrunnisa A. is back with her book of (mis)adventures of Butterfingers a.k.a. Amar Kishen in The World of Butterfingers : The Halloween Adventure And Other Stories. The prolific author from Thiruvananthapuram, who delights...
‘Love, Lewes’ author DJ Griffin to appear July 4
Cape Gazette - Delaware
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Author D.J. Griffin will sign copies of “Love, Lewes” from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., Friday, July 4, at Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach. Genevieve “Vie” Stewart is on her way to becoming the next doctor in the family when tragedy strikes. Devastated,...
Michael Gaine suspect Michael Kelley applying for Irish citizenship - and wants to be author of 'psychological thriller' books
Irish Mirror
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June 29, 2025
The suspect in the murder of Kerry farmer Michael Gaine says he’s now applying for Irish citizenship - and wants to become an author. Admitted illegal immigrant Michael Kelley (52), who is from Maine, is the subject of a deportation order - but...
BOOKS | OPINION: ‘The First Gentleman’ not just a political thriller
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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June 28, 2025
In his new book, "The First Gentleman," former President Bill Clinton teams up once again with bestselling author James Patterson to deliver what can broadly be described as a political thriller. This marks their third collaboration, following two...
Review: In ‘My Mom Jayne,’ Mariska Hargitay grapples with a secret and her mother’s choices
Hartford Courant - Connecticut
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June 28, 2025
By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times That Mariska Hargitay is the daughter of Jayne Mansfield is one of those things everyone who knows anything about either of them seems to know — in some cases maybe the only thing. Even Hargitay — who was only 3...