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Publication day (paperback @pantheonbooks.bsky.social):
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Publication day (paperback @pantheonbooks.bsky.social):
Matthew Aucoin: "[A]n outsize percentage of classical musicians who write especially well about music are pianists: Charles Rosen, Jeremy Denk, Ethan Iverson, Timo Andres, Vijay Iyer, Jonathan Biss—the list goes on. Might virtuosity at one keyboard translate, somehow, into fluency at the other?"
October 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Matthew Aucoin: "[A]n outsize percentage of classical musicians who write especially well about music are pianists: Charles Rosen, Jeremy Denk, Ethan Iverson, Timo Andres, Vijay Iyer, Jonathan Biss—the list goes on. Might virtuosity at one keyboard translate, somehow, into fluency at the other?"
Delightful piece in the next LRB by Julian Barnes about Flaubert and his publisher, Michel Lévy: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Julian Barnes · Ouvriers de luxe: Author v. Publisher
Gustave Flaubert’s first three novels, Madame Bovary, Salammbô and L’Éducation sentimentale, were all published by...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Delightful piece in the next LRB by Julian Barnes about Flaubert and his publisher, Michel Lévy: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Really enjoyed discussing THE TIGER'S SHARE with @jbhattacharjirose.bsky.social on the #TOIBookmark podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/6LIF...
Keshava Guha Talks Observation, Imagination and Walking in Delhi
open.spotify.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Really enjoyed discussing THE TIGER'S SHARE with @jbhattacharjirose.bsky.social on the #TOIBookmark podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/6LIF...
While this piece makes a number of valuable points, the pernicious focus on "track" is ultimately just another symptom of publishing's structural problem, which is one of a declining ratio. Too many writers, not enough readers.
thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...
thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...
The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus
Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it
thewalrus.ca
September 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
While this piece makes a number of valuable points, the pernicious focus on "track" is ultimately just another symptom of publishing's structural problem, which is one of a declining ratio. Too many writers, not enough readers.
thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...
thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...
(Anthropic, not OpenAI, but the principle still applies).
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
(Anthropic, not OpenAI, but the principle still applies).
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Funny notion of something "that isn't British or American"..
August 26, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Funny notion of something "that isn't British or American"..
I wrote about Ben Pester's THE EXPANSION PROJECT: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
The Expansion Project by Ben Pester review – surreal workplace satire
A father searches for his missing daughter at a business park, only to become a living ghost in a corporate nightmare
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I wrote about Ben Pester's THE EXPANSION PROJECT: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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The reviewer really took one for the team here (via @questingvole.bsky.social) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tom Crewe · My Hands in My Face: Ocean Vuong’s Failure
This language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm. Vuong...
www.lrb.co.uk
June 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The reviewer really took one for the team here (via @questingvole.bsky.social) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I wrote about Gurnaik Johal's SARASWATI, and what I call "connection novels", in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal review – an ambitious Indian panorama
In the first novel from the author of We Move, descendants of a proscribed intercaste marriage are connected across continents and centuries
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I wrote about Gurnaik Johal's SARASWATI, and what I call "connection novels", in @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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The Tiger’s Share by Keshava Guha review – hopeless sons vs brilliant daughters.
Review of @keshavaguha.bsky.social ‘s novel
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Review of @keshavaguha.bsky.social ‘s novel
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
The Tiger’s Share by Keshava Guha review – hopeless sons vs brilliant daughters
Families are at war in the new India, in a novel raising complex questions about patriotism, nationalism and how the country is changing
www.theguardian.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The Tiger’s Share by Keshava Guha review – hopeless sons vs brilliant daughters.
Review of @keshavaguha.bsky.social ‘s novel
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Review of @keshavaguha.bsky.social ‘s novel
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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"With The Boyhood of Cain, a star is born." 📖 ⭐
Me on Michael Amherst's debut novel of exceptional poise and confidence.👇 It has the surface calmness, inner turbulence, understated emotion and muted wit of JM Coetzee, and the most affecting ending I've read in ages.
Me on Michael Amherst's debut novel of exceptional poise and confidence.👇 It has the surface calmness, inner turbulence, understated emotion and muted wit of JM Coetzee, and the most affecting ending I've read in ages.
Most debut novels are ho-hum, but this one is gosh-wow
A literary star is born: The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst is a dazzling coming-of-age story about a sensitive boy
www.thetimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
"With The Boyhood of Cain, a star is born." 📖 ⭐
Me on Michael Amherst's debut novel of exceptional poise and confidence.👇 It has the surface calmness, inner turbulence, understated emotion and muted wit of JM Coetzee, and the most affecting ending I've read in ages.
Me on Michael Amherst's debut novel of exceptional poise and confidence.👇 It has the surface calmness, inner turbulence, understated emotion and muted wit of JM Coetzee, and the most affecting ending I've read in ages.