Last week the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which oversees the districts of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the Virgin Islands, upheld and further underlined a lower court ruling in the ongoing AI and copyright case of Thomson
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Last week the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which oversees the districts of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the Virgin Islands, upheld and further underlined a lower court ruling in the ongoing AI and copyright case of Thomson
Forty years ago in October 1986 I attended my first Frankfurt Book Fair. On the first day of meetings my friend and colleague Gary Fisketjon and I were introduced to Heinrich Maria Ledig Rowohlt, an elegant, charismatic 78-year-old German publisher
Extra, extra. You’ve seen the headlines. Men—particularly straight men—have stopped reading fiction. This year saw the rise and fall of the performative lit-bro. And though history, crime, and self-help books still persuade a certain type, the most recent NEA survey found
Als Whitney Houston in den ersten Wochen des Jahres 1991 in der Arsenio Hall Show auftrat, war Arsenios anderer Gast Roseanne Barr, die im Vorjahr bei einem Spiel der San Diego Padres bekanntermaßen „The Star-Spangled Banner“ gesungen hatte. Der Gastgeber fragte Barr, ob
Im September 1942 befand sich Armeechef-Bibliothekar Ray Trautman auf der letzten Etappe einer Weltreise zu US-Einrichtungen, als er in Australien ankam. Hier hatte er eine doppelte Mission: Er wollte die Temperatur der Lesebedürfnisse in dieser Ecke messen
In Hannah Arendts Heimat lebten viele Freunde, die meisten davon Männer – das lässt zumindest ihre veröffentlichte Korrespondenz vermuten. Zu den veröffentlichten Briefen zwischen Arendt und ihren Freunden gehören Bücher mit Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Heinrich Blücher,
Hallo nochmal! Willkommen zurück in der schönsten (und betrunkensten) Ecke des Internets, der Heimat der süßen und gewagten Sensation namens Am I the Literary Asshole? Wenn Sie zum ersten Mal lesen, haben wir eine zweimonatliche Ratgeberkolumne, die sich mit den Themen befasst
Heute verlieh die Schwedische Akademie den Nobelpreis für Literatur 2026 an die kanadische Autorin Anne Carson für „ihr mutiges und einfallsreiches Werk, das im spielerischen Dialog mit der klassischen Tradition neue Formen für die zeitgenössische Literatur geschaffen hat“. Die Akademie ist dauerhaft
Normalerweise verstehen wir Literatur nicht als Dialog. Wenn Verlagsfachleute an Leser denken, denken sie normalerweise, dass sie sie zum Kauf des Buches verleiten müssen, damit sie stundenlang angenehme oder bereichernde kulturelle Unterhaltung genießen können. Der Name des Autors
Ich wurde als Schriftsteller erwachsen und las N. Scott Momadays „The Way to Rainy Mountain“, „House Made of Dawn“ und „Angle of Geese“ (seine kreativen Sachbücher, Memoiren, Romane und Gedichtsammlungen). Momaday, wie Louise Erdrich, Leslie Silko, Joy
Award-winning fiction writer T. Geronimo Johnson joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to talk about his new novel, The Occidental Book of the Dead. He discusses how the book addresses white supremacy and the United States’ deep-seated and racist
Tonight, at a ceremony in New York City, Kirkus Reviews announced the winners of the 13th annual Kirkus Prize, which awards $50,000 to “books of exceptional merit” in three categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers’ Literature. The winners were chosen
In a new People Interview, Michael Douglas gets real about writing about his past relationships in his new memoir, One Helluva Ride, including the one where there were "acts of indiscretion" on both their parts.
How to build a reading habit when you hate reading: diagnose if your problem is selection or friction, pick books by mood, not should-read lists, engineer quick wins with short books, give yourself permission to quit, use audiobooks as a bridge, and track daily streaks instead of yearly counts.
Photographing notes is not digitising them. This guide shows how to use your phone's built-in text recognition to turn handwriting into searchable, editable text on iPhone and Android, with no extra app and no upload.
Flash fiction is not a shortened long story. It is a different form built on one character, one problem, and one moment. This guide covers structure, titles, endings, and the editing process that makes a 500-word story work.
Natural dialogue is not a transcript of real speech — it is real speech edited for character, tension, and subtext. These techniques will help your characters sound like people instead of mouthpieces.
A clear structure keeps a true story moving. This guide shows a simple framework for shaping scenes, reflection, and research into an essay that holds together.
Showing means giving readers evidence instead of labels. These five short exercises train you to replace emotion words with action, detail, and dialogue.
A reading journal only helps if you still use it in March. This guide sets up a low-effort system for tracking books, quotes, and ideas worth returning to.
A memoir opening must earn the reader's attention in the first page. This guide shows how to choose a scene, enter it late, and set up the question the book answers.
Character voice is more than accent or slang. This guide shows how sentence length, vocabulary, and what a character notices can make a voice unmistakable.
Revision feels overwhelming when you try to fix everything at once. This guide breaks it into passes: structure, scenes, sentences, and a final read-aloud check.
Sensory detail works when it reveals character or changes a scene. This guide shows how to choose details that mean something instead of listing all five senses.