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Lisa F. Crites Turns Her Own Cancer Recovery Into a Patented Invention and a New Memoir, Beautifully Unbroken
The medical journalist behind The Shower Shirt™, the first patented water-resistant garment for chest surgery patients, tells how the sudden loss of her mother, a breast cancer diagnosis, and a book deal she turned down twice became an Amazon Best Seller, with proceeds pledged to breast cancer support groups.
Destroying Books Is a Cultural Crime. Project Panama Destroyed Millions of Books with No Legal Consequence
Anthropic bought millions of books, cut them apart and pulped them after scanning. No court called it a crime. Destroying books is a cultural crime and no ruling changes that.
You Have a Story Worth Sharing- We are all made of stories but yours will define who we are
Every life contains a book. Some people write it.
In Conversation With Francis Fukuyama on the Last Man He Once Declared Triumphant
In 1989, a young political scientist announced that history itself had reached its destination. On 2 September, at the London School of Economics, Francis Fukuyama returns to ask what he got right, what he got wrong and what thirty-seven years have done to that argument. He discusses his new memoir In the Realm of the Last Man at the London School of Economics on 2 September 2026. Here is what to expect.
Authors May Have to Keep Records of How They Write Their Own Books
HarperCollins' chief executive says no software can reliably tell a human manuscript from an AI-assisted one, and that a book written with AI help might not be copyrightable at all.
Readers Cannot Tell Whether a Short Story Came From a Person or ChatGPT
In three experiments with more than 2,500 adults, the same story scored higher whenever readers were told a human had written it.
AI Research Tools Can Now Quote Princeton University Press Books Without Training on Them
The Press chooses which titles go in and on what terms, through a platform called Cashmere, and its refusal to license anything for model training still stands.
Five Years in Venezuelan Custody, and the Memoir a Citgo Executive Made of Them
Jorge L. Toledo was vice president of supply and marketing at Citgo when armed agents arrested him at a meeting in Caracas in November 2017, and the title of the book he published last August is a literal count of the days that followed.
Bloomsbury Anthropic's $1.5 billion Copyright Settlement with Authors over 14,087 Titles
The Harry Potter publisher is due a multimillion pound payout from the largest copyright settlement in US history. The more interesting story is what it reveals about how a book's value gets counted once a machine has read it.
Leon Aryah Lewis Published His Debut Spiritual Memoir Thirty Years After Writing It
Inside Out: A Journey of the Soul, published by Landon Hail Press, traces one life as a soul's autobiography, exploring reincarnation, shadow and light, and the four decades of inner work that made Leon finally ready to share it.
Mohsen Rifaat Traces a Life Lived Between Cairo and Canada in New Illustrated Memoir
Egyptian-Canadian architect Mohsen Rifaat's illustrated memoir navigates a life between Cairo and Vancouver, and uncovers surprising historical ties between Egypt and Canada.
DUMB 31 Review: Nik Nanoski's Debut Finds Community at the End of the World
The Army veteran and nurse's post-apocalyptic debut follows four friends out of a failing bunker and into a surface world still full of people, where survival is a group effort.