Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for January 11, 2024
Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 Happiness Falls by Angie Kim Get This Deal $1.99 A Sinister Revenge by Deanna Raybourn Get This Deal $1.99 The Rakess...
Another Round of Public Library Bomb Threats
In summer 2023, a rash of bomb threats hit suburban Chicago libraries. They weren’t alone in getting these threats, as libraries in several other states also...
Storystorm 2024 Day 11: Lauren H. Kerstein Watches Hallmark Movies
by Lauren H. Kerstein Confession: I am a Hallmark movie-aholic! I love having them on in the background while I work (even if I have to...
How Anthony Veasna So’s Unfinished Novel “Straight Thru Cambotown” Became a Collection
In the six years since I began writing the Unfinished Business column here at Electric Literature, I’ve explored the incomplete works of fifteen authors, but these...
Meta Admits Use of ‘Pirated’ Book Dataset to Train AI
In recent months, rightsholders of all ilks have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models. The list includes record labels, individual authors, visual artists, and...
Changes we’re making to Google Assistant
Google Assistant will no longer support a number of underutilized features to focus on improving quality and reliability. Source : Changes we’re making to Google Assistant
Five ways Victoria’s Secret & Co. is using AI to make shopping more personalized and inclusive
A new partnership between Victoria’s Secret & Company and Google Cloud uses AI and generative AI to make online shopping more personalized and inclusive. Source :...
The Real Cost of a Family Business
Amy Jo Burns’ second novel, Mercury, is a heartfelt portrait of a working-class family set in an unsuspecting industrial town in Pennsylvania in the 1990s that...
Kaveh Akbar’s Labor of Love
The moment Kaveh Akbar realized he’d broken through as a poet, he was driving down the highway. It was Dec. 26, 2016, and he glanced at...
What are You Reading This Week
We’re already approaching the end of the second week of January, which means that if my math is correct, we should all be finished or almost...
