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Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’
“If ‘The Best American Poetry’ captures ‘the zeitgeist of the current attitudes in American poetry,’ we should be asking: Why are those attitudes so f****d up?”
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The First Tomato to Know Everything
“On gray literature and Webster’s Timeline History books.”
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What Was A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius?
“Dave Eggers wrote a remarkable memoir, but its afterlife was even more extraordinary.”
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The A.I. Romance Factory
“Genre fiction publisher Inkitt has influential backers and a vision for infinitely customizable A.I.-driven content. What would be left for the human creators?”
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The American Novel Has a Major Problem With Fat People
“Why does fiction do such a bad job of portraying fat characters?”
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A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending
“Glenn Horowitz built a fortune selling the archives of writers such as Vladimir Nabokov and Alice Walker. Then a rock star pressed charges.”
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This Literary AI Scandal Changes Everything
“A magazine’s response to accusations of publishing AI-generated fiction points to a new phase in the struggle to keep literature human.”
