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Authors push back on the growing number of AI 'scam' books on Amazon
Authors say that the proliferation of AI-generated books can lead customers into buying the wrong book on Amazon and that these books can harm authors' sales numbers and reputations.
In new novel '2054', technology is advancing, but is humanity able to catch up?
In the new book 2054, Admiral James Stavridis and Elliot Ackerman imagine how the singularity might threaten America and the world 30 years from now.
In 'Unshrinking,' a writer discusses coming out as fat and pushing back against bias
Kate Manne tried to shrink her body for years before embracing her size as part of a "natural, normal human variation." She says the fight against fat phobia must start in the doctor's office.
Big-box store workers find themselves shut out of the American Dream in 'Help Wanted'
Adelle Waldman's novel is a workplace ensemble set in a Costco-like store. But, because Help Wanted is a group portrait, it tends to visit, rather than settle in with, its working class characters.
Jim Sciutto on if the next world war is preventable
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with CNN chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto about his new book The Return of Great Powers and how close we are to the precipice of a new global order.
Q&A: Yashica Dutt on her life as part of an oppressed caste in 'Coming Out As Dalit'
When Dutt was a kid, her family pretended to be rich so no one would suspect their caste identity. In her memoir, she talks of her struggles — and her decision to publicly declare she is a Dalit.
The working class gets stubbed out in Russell Banks' posthumous 'American Spirits'
The late author often wrote about the loneliness and isolation of the working class. His new short story collection puts a sharper focus on the politics of small town life.
A visit to the dunes that inspired Frank Herbert's 'Dune'
In an excerpt from the Outside/In podcast, reporter Justine Paradis visits the dunes that inspired Frank Herbert's book, Dune.
Rita Bullwinkel talks about her novel 'Headshot' and writing about women's boxing
NPR's Scott Simon talks with Rita Bullwinkel about her new novel, "Headshot." It tells the past, present, and future of eight girls who compete in a boxing championship in Nevada.