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Substack newsletters are a literary trend. What's the appeal – and what should you read?

Every week since August 2021, Australian author Bri Lee has released a regular weekly Substack newsletter, News & Reviews, to thousands of paid and unpaid subscribers.

The Conversation

From me to your inbox: 33 of the best Substack newsletters

The fast-growing US writing platform has come of age. But how do you find the good stuff? We pick some of the best by theme

The Guardian - UK

Claire Keegan: ‘I can’t explain my work. I just write stories’

The much-acclaimed Irish author of Small Things Like These on her quietly devastating new story and why George Saunders wouldn’t read it aloud for a podcast

The Guardian - UK

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Margaret Atwood, George Saunders, Jodi Picoult and thousands of authors sign an open letter to AI leaders

Over 8,000 authors including Booker-winners Margaret Atwood and George Saunders, and bestselling writers Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Egan, among others have signed an open letter to Generative AI Leaders asking them to seek permission, give due credits and fairly compensate writers for using their copyrighted works to train AI.

The Times of India

Lorrie Moore: ‘I’m just cruel. What can I tell you?’

The cult US author talks about losing her father during the pandemic, deadpan comedy – and why she wrote her long-awaited new novel in secret

The Guardian - UK

Quiet quitting academia in "Lucky Hank"

Tenured professors who can't be fired: they're just like us!

Salon

Lucky Hank episode 2 recap: Hank gets an unwelcome visitor

In Lucky Hank episode 2, someone from Hank's past arrives at Railton and gets on Hank's nerves. Plus, Gracie and Rourke get petty.

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How to watch Lucky Hank: live stream the new Bob Odenkirk comedy for free – from anywhere on the planet

Bob Odenkirk's new comedy is based on the 1997 novel Straight Man by Richard Russo. Here's how to watch Lucky Hank online and on TV, from anywhere on the planet.

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Rachel Howzell Hall, George Saunders, James Hannaham among LA Times Book Prize finalists

LOS ANGELES — The finalists for the 43rd Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced Wednesday, with Rachel Howzell Hall, James Hannaham and George Saunders among the nominees for the annual literary awards.

Los Angeles Times

Can reading help heal us and process our emotions – or is that just a story we tell ourselves?

The oldest known library, dating back to the second millennium BC, in Thebes, Egypt, reportedly bore a sign above its portals in Greek: Psyches Iatreion, translated as “healing place of the soul”.

The Conversation

NFL Power Rankings: Tight Race Brewing at the Top Entering Final Stretch

The road to the Super Bowl goes through Kansas City and Philadelphia for now, but there’s a host of hot teams climbing into contention.

Sports Illustrated

The Guide #57: Is it just me, or is everything we watch getting more gory?

In this week’s newsletter: Martin McDonagh’s sad, funny Banshees of Inisherin has unexpected moments of true gruesomeness – just like every other hit these days

The Guardian - UK

Liberation Day by George Saunders review – a hell of a ride

The characters in these absurdly funny stories are trapped by hyper-capitalism and their own foolishness, as Saunders investigates the prisons we make for ourselves

The Guardian - UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Liberation Day by George Saunders and Our Share Of Night by Mariana Enriquez.

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The Guardian - UK

Liberation Day by George Saunders review – a world of tricks and treats

The Lincoln in the Bardo author reinvents the possibilities of the short story in this wonderfully absurd return to the form

The Independent UK

George Saunders: ‘This capitalism thing has got limits’

After winning the Booker Prize for debut novel ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’, the author returns to the short-story form with new collection ‘Liberation Day’. He talks to Kevin E G Perry about his fascination with Custer’s Last Stand, what John Steinbeck taught him about socialism and learning to embrace uncertainty

The Guardian - UK

Shehan Karunatilaka: ‘There’s a Sri Lankan gallows humour… we’ve been through a lot of catastrophes’

The novelist on finding dark farce in his country’s civil war, his grunge band past, and the ‘lottery win’ of the Booker shortlist

Chicago Tribune

Books for fall 2022: Our 65 titles for the season, histories, thrillers and horror, fiction and non. Get reading.

CHICAGO — You know how we don’t notice the leaves on the trees until September arrives, nature flips its switch and emeralds become purples, reds and golds? That’s not the worst metaphor for the new fall book season — the big season for publishers (eyeing awards and holiday sales), and…

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Adam Levin’s latest big, huge novel throws Chicago into a giant sinkhole. After all, he lives in Florida now.

CHICAGO — Adam Levin left Chicago a few years ago and moved to Florida, and if you don’t think that’s hilarious, you should meet Adam Levin. He grew up in Highland Park, taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and for the past decade has been known…

The Independent UK

Spiderhead shows Netflix is getting less daring by the day

George Saunders’s dark, challenging sci-fi story has its edges sanded off in the streamer’s new Chris Hemsworth-starring adaptation. For a company that built its name shaking up an entire industry, Netflix is starting to seem decidedly risk-averse, writes Louis Chilton

Inverse

'Spiderhead' ending explained: How the Netflix movie changes the book

The ending of the new Netflix chiller 'Spiderhead' is a bit different from the George Saunders short story it's based on. Here's what it all means.

The Independent UK

Chris Hemsworth finds a rich groove in 'Spiderhead'

Director Joseph Kosinski's sci-fi prison thriller “Spiderhead" is in many wants the opposite of his “Top Gun: Maverick.”

Inverse

Spiderhead Netflix review: This compact sci-fi drama reveals the problem with 'Black Mirror'

Taking inspiration from a brilliant George Saunders story, 'Spiderhead,' starring Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, and Jurnee Smollett, is a sci-fi thriller with some smarts.

Daily Mirror

Couple film 'very British' video for stranger after finding his phone in The Range

The video left people in stitches, after being uploaded to TikTok, where the man appealed to find the couple who had recorded the video on his phone before handing it in

The Guardian - UK

In brief: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain; The Slow Road to Tehran; Drift – review

George Saunders leads a writing masterclass, Rebecca Lowe goes on a cycling adventure and Caryl Lewis makes a magical English-language fiction debut

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