Posted on July 6, 2026 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!
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Journalist David Shariatmadari spoke with linguists and writers alike to discuss what artificial intelligence might mean — and might not mean — for the future of fiction (The Guardian).
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OverDrive's new CEO has announced that the ebook lending app Libby will be adding AI content controls, meaning that readers can filter out AI-generated books (The Tech Buzz).
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Historian Mike Wallace, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Gotham and wrote two other books about New York City, died Sunday at age eighty-three (The New York Times).
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Haruki Murakami fans counted down to midnight last week to be among the first to buy his new novel, The Tale of KAHO (The Associated Press).
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This year's San Fermin Festival — a weeklong celebration in Pamplona, Spain, that features the running of the bulls — coincides with the 100th anniversary of Ernest Hemingway's book The Sun Also Rises, to the great delight of fans of the author (The Associated Press).
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Today is the world premiere of Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of the classic epic poem The Odyssey (Deadline).
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