{"id":222317,"date":"2025-05-04T06:40:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T06:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/the-biggest-book-news-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T06:40:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T06:40:33","slug":"the-biggest-book-news-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=222317","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Book News of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s2982.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/person-holding-newspaper.jpg.optimal.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div class=\"bubblewrap bubblewrap--first\">\n<p><em>Here are the headlines that defined the week in book news\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Amazon \u201cAccidentally\u201d Plans Book Sale Event At Same Time as Independent Bookstore Day<\/h2>\n<p>This Saturday was Independent Bookstore Day, a truly fun day to be a book person with access to, and affinity for, an independent bookstore. On April 15th, Amazon announced a week-long \u201cbook sale event\u201d that included the 26th.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/amazon-book-sale-on-independent-bookstore-day.html\">Several folks were not pleased about this<\/a>. And I can understand why of course. Amazon says that it was unintentional, though of course if you are an indie bookstore this rings pretty hollow. So either it was intentional\u2026or it wasn\u2019t. To my mind, either is a bad look for Amazon: either they new the optics would be bad and just wanted to flex anyway or it didn\u2019t understand that the optics would be bad. (The Machiavellian move would have been to have it the week before Independent Bookstore Day to pull forward any marginal book-buying dollars and claim \u201cwe didn\u2019t want to detract from the indies!\u201d).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bubblewrap bubblewrap--second\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Christie Estate Authorizes AI Deepfake of The Queen of Crime to Teach a Class on Writing<\/h2>\n<p>I don\u2019t think so, folks. I am not a never-AI person, and neither am I a \u201cyea do it all\u201d AI maximalist. So I tend to judge use by use and project by project, and this fits squarely in the\u2026.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbcmaestro.com\/blog\/the-making-of-agatha-christies-new-writing-course\">I just don\u2019t want this<\/a>. It looks to have been with as much care and attention as could be applied, but having reality-grade versions of real people say and do things that they didn\u2019t say or do like that doesn\u2019t strike me as cool or fun or even especially interesting. Que\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/F_7RvW-avZ8?t=77\">Ian Malcolm<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New Snape Signs Letter in Support of Trans Rights<\/h2>\n<p>Just a few days after John Lithgow expressed amazement that anyone might wonder if supporting J.K. Rowling\u2019s work tacitly (at least) also means tolerating (at least) her views on trans people, Paape Essiedu, who has been cast as Severus Snape in HBO\u2019s new production,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Wn4qRk0MFqsH3jubbiX5QoTF7r7tUY5KyQ_qrIIt4MM\/edit?tab=t.0\">joined hundreds of others in signing an open letter to the film and television industry supporting the rights and identity of trans people<\/a>\u00a0and rebuking the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/goodlawproject.org\/the-supreme-court-ignored-trans-voices-im-ashamed-of-what-our-law-has-become\/\">UK Supreme Court\u2019s April 17th decision<\/a>. I hope the producers and powers that be, at the very least, allow cast members to express their views on the matter. Not only is it the right thing to do, but any pressure to soften or silence gestures like this will spark a real backlash (one that I think might happen anyway).<\/p>\n<div class=\"nl-signup\">\n<div class=\"nl-wrap\">\n<div class=\"nl-heading\">\n<p>Today In Books<\/p>\n<p>Sign up to Today In Books to receive daily news and miscellany from the world of books.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mellon Foundation Announces Emergency Funding for State Humanities Councils<\/h2>\n<p>This is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/newsbrief\/index.html?record=5343\">what foundations should be doing right now.<\/a>\u00a0So many people are feeling helpless and the scale of this administrations excesses is indeed overwhelming. But there is a lot of money on the sidelines and money can do things! Just because you yourself cannot take on ICE or bring back Roe does not mean your targeted, marginal dollar cannot support something you care about. I wonder if the extremely deep pockets at places like the Ford Foundation might look at extraordinary efforts to support on the ground arts organizations just like this. The mood feels less \u201cyea more Macarthurs!\u201d and more \u201cprotect local libraries with your bodies\u201d and perhaps the dollars might be best spend differently for awhile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">John Lithgow Surprised by Dumbledore Casting Blowback<\/h2>\n<p>John Lithgow\u2019s casting as Albus Dumbledore is probably the fourth most important role in HBO\u2019s reboot of Harry Potter. And Lithgow himself said when the news broke that it will not only be the last major role he plays, but probably will be the first line in his bio from now on. One thing that he didn\u2019t predict\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/harry-potter-series-star-john-lithgow-surprised-by-jk-rowling-backlash-11722976\">was that not everyone would be thrilled to see him take the role<\/a>. Danika Ellis wrote\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bookriot.com\/open-letter-to-john-lithgow\/\">this open letter to Lithgow<\/a>, urging him to reconsider, considering how enmeshed the Harry Potter franchise now is with J.K. Rowling\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/celebrity\/j-k-rowling-removed-from-seattle-museum-of-pop-culture-anti-trans-remarks\/\">on-going transphobic public comments<\/a>. This letter apparently made it back to Lithgow himself, via a friend with a trans kid, and rather than reflect or even concede that he could understand this point, he responded with:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the headlines that defined the week in book news\u2026. 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