On social media, a rash of authors have reported an initial finding that their publishers may not have formally registered copyright for their books with the US Copyright Office as stipulated by contract — which means those titles would not be eligible to participate in the Anthropic class action settlement. Books must have been registered within five years of the publication date and before the start of Anthropic’s infringement (or within three months of publication) to qualify as part of the class. Any other books are not entitled to any part of the settlement and that cannot be remediated at […]
Archives for August 2025
Forthcoming: Jennette McCurdy’s Debut Novel
Ballantine will publish Jennette McCurdy‘s debut novel HALF HIS AGE on January 20, 2026. McCurdy’s bestselling memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died was published by Simon & Schuster in 2022. The new book follows a 17 year old girl navigating an affair with her teacher. McCurdy writes, “Through a 17-year-old girl named Waldo I got to explore the complexities of desire, consumerism, class, loneliness, the internet, rage, addiction, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we’ll go to in order to get what we want. Waldo’s story is ultimately about finding yourself in a world designed to make you lose yourself, and […]
The Edit: The Fall Season Is Here
Welcome back to our monthly column about the galleys everyone in publishing is reading. The fall season kicks off next week, and more previews have appeared from Time, the AP, and Oprah Daily. Many of the same titles recur, like Susan Orleans’ memoir Joyride (Avid Reader, 10/14), Lily King’s Heart the Lover (Grove, 9/30), and The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Hogarth, 9/23), which was nominated for the Booker. Meanwhile, awards season is beginning to take shape. The Kirkus Prize named its finalists, with Desai’s novel as well as Flesh by David Szalay (Scriber, 4/1) the overlapping […]