The Great Divide (Ecco, March 5, 2024. Editor: Sara Birmingham. Agent: Julie Barer, The Book Group.) Cristina Henríquez is the author of The Book of Unknown Americans, The World In Half and Come Together, Fall Apart: A Novella and Stories. She has been longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Real Simple, and elsewhere. She earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and is a graduate of the […]
New Books Publishing March 19
This week’s fiction releases include novels by Percival Everett and Téa Obreht, while Christine Blasey Ford and Judith Butler publish new nonfiction works. Also out this week are books by Lisa Ko, Elaine Lin Hering, and Edith Hall, all of which are excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer anthology. 26 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-march-19 14 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-march-19 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months on Bookshop. Check out […]
Nero Gold Prize
Paul Murray's THE BEE STING was named the overall book of the year in the first annual Nero book awards.
AAP, Publishers Oppose IA’s Appeal
The AAP, Hachette, Wiley, PRH, and Harper Collins filed a brief with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals opposing the Internet Archive’s appeal of the copyright lawsuit they lost last year. District Court Judge John Koeltl’s verdict granting summary judgment just under a year ago was clear, overwhelming, and rooted in Second Circuit precedent. So the plaintiffs’ arguments are largely the same as the those that won them the case. Despite the IA’s assertion that they were doing it for the common good, their copying and distribution of in-copyright books — under the invented legal theory of controlled digital lending […]
NYT Responds to OpenAI’s “Hacking” Claims
The New York Times responded to OpenAI’s motion to dismiss the paper’s copyright lawsuit, which claimed that the Times “hacked” Chat-GPT in queries to get responses that support their case. According to the Times’ response, OpenAI’s claim is “as irrelevant as it is false.” “OpenAI’s true grievance is not about how The Times conducted its investigation, but instead what that investigation exposed: that Defendants built their products by copying The Times’s content on an unprecedented scale—a fact that OpenAI does not, and cannot, dispute,” lawyers for the paper state in their filing. That OpenAI used the Times’s copyrighted material to […]
Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalists
Aspen Words announced the finalists for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, "for a work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture."