ChatGPT Owner Admits to Needing Copyrighted Material to Train Its AI Tools
OpenAI — the developer of ChatGPT, a chatbot that shook things up in 2023 — has said that it would not be able to train its...
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...
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...
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...
Lawful Evil to Chaotic Good: Identifying the Best Time of Day to Read
Let’s begin with the bad, shall we? Good things come to those who wait (right?) and the best awaits you at the end of this list....
20 of the Best Fantasy Books of 2023
There’s only ever so much time in a day and only so much that we’re allowed to read during the day (why do I need to...
10 of the Most-Anticipated Audiobooks of January 2024
One of the best things about the new year is new audiobooks! There’s something special about an audiobook. Whether it’s a walk on a brisk winter...
