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International Booker Shortlist Announced | Book Pulse
Shortlists for the International Booker Prize, Dinesh Allirajah Prize, and Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards for British food writing are announced. Samantha Mills wins the Compton Crook Award for her debut novel, The Wings Upon Her Back. The Sheikh Zayed Book Awards are announced. ALA files suit over the gutting of IMLS. LibraryReads and LJ offer read-alikes for top holds title The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner. Plus, the Library of Congress announced its 2025 selections for the National Recording Registry.
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Awards & News
The International Booker shortlist is announced. NYT has coverage.
Samantha Mills wins the Compton Crook Award for her debut novel, The Wings Upon Her Back (Tachyon; LJ starred review).
The Sheikh Zayed Book Awards are announced; Haruki Murakami is named Cultural Personality of the Year. Publishing Perspectives has coverage, as does Publishers Weekly.
The Dinesh Allirajah Prize shortlist is announced, Locus reports.
The shortlists for the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards for British food writing are announced, The Bookseller reports.
The Library of Congress announces its 2025 selections for the National Recording Registry, including Elton John, Hamilton, Minecraft, and more, Infodocket reports. Deadline and Billboard also have coverage.
ALA sues the Trump Administration over the gutting of IMLS. PW has coverage, as does Infodocket.
The American Booksellers Association offers an overview of the new U.S. tariffs.
Reviews
NYT provides short reviews on four new murder mysteries: The Mystery of the Crooked Man by Tom Spencer (Pushkin Vertigo), Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd (Atria), Midnight in Soap Lake by Matthew Sullivan (Hanover Square), and Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto (Berkley).
NYT also reviews Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right by Quinn Slobodian (Zone): “Slobodian’s book offers an illuminating history to our current bewildering moment, as right-wing populists join forces with billionaire oligarchs to take a chain saw to the foundations of public life, until there’s nothing left to stand on.”
Briefly Noted
LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner, the top holds title of the week. Weiner discusses her book with People.
USA Today reports that George R.R. Martin was involved with the reintroduction of the extinct dire wolf.
CBC previews 39 Canadian poetry collections for spring.
The Rumpus has National Poetry Month coverage featuring original poems.
Reactor shares “Five Must-Read Short Story Collections for Fans of Black Mirror.”
People talks with Jasmine Guillory about her new book, Flirting Lessons (Berkley).
Poet Keetje Kuipers, Lonely Women Make Good Lovers (BOA Editions), answers 10 questions at Poets & Writers.
Former senator Joe Manchin will publish the memoir Dead Center: In Defense of Common Sense (St. Martin’s) in September. Kirkus has the story.
Vogue talks with Jamie Hood, author of Trauma Plot: A Life (Pantheon), about “emotional and physical toll of reliving some of your worst memories for the sake of art.”
People reveals the cover of Richard Osman’s forthcoming The Impossible Fortune (Pamela Dorman), due out in September.
Vanity Fair has a Q&A with E.A. Hanks about her new book, The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road by (Gallery), “why her father was her first reader, and the pluses and minuses of being a ‘nepo’ case.”
In Salon, Jennifer Beals discusses releasing her new book, The L Word: A Photographic Journal (Weldon Owen).
T&C shares how to read Danielle L. Jensen’s The Bridge Kingdom books in order; the fifth book, The Twisted Throne (Del Rey), is out this week.
Media critic Robert W. McChesney has died at the age of 72. NYT has an obituary.
Authors on Air
NPR’s Fresh Air talks with Chris Whipple about his new book, Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History (Harper Influence).
NPR’s It’s Been A Minute chats with Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Andrea Long Chu about her new book, Authority: Essays (Farrar).
Kira Archer’s 69 Million Things I Hate About You (Entangled) will be adapted for the big screen, Deadline reports.
James Frey, who is adapting his forthcoming novel Next To Heaven (Authors Equity: S. & S.) for television, has signed with Range Media for representation. Deadline reports.
Danielle Deadwyler will develop and produce a feature adaptation of Ann Petry’s classic The Street (Mariner). Deadline reports.
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I am baffled by the apparent belief that any of these "tasks" are of sufficient merit to overcome the massive environmental, legal, ethical, educational and quality drawbacks of LLM "AI". Anyone who thinks that students would draw benefit from having a machine spit out a mediocre and potentially error-raddled summary or outline instead of creating their own; or that a workplace would be improved by context-free workflow; or thinks that they would save time or effort by letting an algorithm concoct their "low-stakes" presentation or artwork which will need extensive double-checking and correcting for hallucinations, is probably already cool with the idea that they are stealing words and images created by real live humans without compensation, and melting the planet we all have to share to do it.
But sure, let's have a flagship association for librarians promote and cheerlead this destructive and pointless technology. We're so desperate to appear hip and trendy that we're happy to give up the expertise and judgment that makes our profession valuable.
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while I do think your concerns are valid, I believe there is also potential for AI to enhance library services when implemented thoughtfully and ethically. The key is to strike a balance, leveraging AI's strengths while maintaining the core values and expertise that define the library profession.
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