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What we’re reading: George Saunders, Erin Somers and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in January

Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK

‘If I was American, I’d be worried about my country’: Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more

Democracy, birds and hangover cures – famous fans put their questions to the visionary author

The Guardian - UK

Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is more complicated

IN FOCUS: As debates over the ‘disappearing’ young male novelist rumble on, some authors and critics push back against claims that fiction has closed its doors to men. Hannah Ewens learns that the real problem is less about publishing and more about a wider societal issue

The Independent UK

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Paula Bomer: ‘If you describe yourself as a victim, you’re dismissed’

Having made waves as part of the alt-lit movement, the US author is poised to go mainstream with The Stalker, her most exhilarating work yet

The Guardian - UK

This feels both sacrilegious and scary, but I have a bone to pick with Oprah Winfrey

Bravo Rosie O’Donnell for calling out America’s queen over her attendance at the Bezos-Sánchez nuptials. That takes courage, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

The Guardian - UK

US authors’ copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft combined in New York with newspaper actions

California cases over AI trainers’ use of work by writers including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Chabon transferred to consolidate with New York suits from John Grisham and Jonathan Franzen and more

The Guardian - UK

By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult review – Shakespeare was a woman

Through a modern playwright and a Tudor figure, the bestselling American author creates a dual narrative about the erasure of women’s creativity

The Guardian - UK

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Colson Whitehead, the Great American author

Colson Whitehead is one of the rare authors to win the Pulitzer Prize twice. The first time was for his novel "The Underground Railroad" in 2017, loved by Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey and made into a TV series by Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins. It led to him being on…

France 24

‘You can write anything about sex, but you cannot talk about money’: Taffy Brodesser-Akner on life after Fleishman

Her bestselling debut, Fleishman Is in Trouble, became a hit TV series. Now Taffy Brodesser-Akner is taking on the American dream

The Guardian - UK

Alice Munro Was Bigger than Canada

Here artists are celebrated by virtue of their nationality. Munro showed me I could escape those tropes

The Walrus

‘Reading her stories is like watching a virtuoso pianist perform’: Alice Munro remembered

The Ontario-born writer turned the ‘classic New Yorker-style short story’ into the highest form of literature, by taking an obsessively detailed interest in the people who lived in her small Canadian town

The Guardian - UK

Bridget Jones, Santaland Diaries and A Christmas Carol: 25 literary treats to read this December

From David Sedaris’s comic diaries to Maya Angelou’s poem Amazing Peace, count down to Christmas with our Advent calendar of festive reads

The Guardian - UK

George R.R. Martin and other top authors take on OpenAI

Literary stars including the Game of Thrones author, John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, and Jonathan Franzen, sue OpenAI over copyright.

Fortune

Authors call for AI companies to stop using their work without consent

Margaret Atwood, Viet Thanh Nguyen and 8,000 others have signed an open letter asking that permission is obtained and compensation given when a writer’s work is used by AI

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Thousands of writers demand AI stop using work without permission

Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Franzen and James Patterson among signatories of Authors Guild-organised letter.

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Where Should We Begin?; The Girlfriends; The Crossbow Killer; Get Birding – review

Psychotherapist Esther Perel invites listeners back into real-life couple’s counselling sessions. Plus, two new true crime mysteries and CIty Girl in Nature’s search for feathered friends

The Guardian - UK

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray review – master of the generation game

Murray’s brilliant new novel, about a rural Irish clan, is pure pleasure and posits the author as Dublin’s answer to Jonathan Franzen

The Guardian - US

The side hustle that keeps a literary author’s career afloat

Tony Tulathimutte’s writing workshop, Crit, reels in eminent guest speakers and helps launch the careers of new authors

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This week's bestselling books

The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias

The Guardian - UK

In brief: The Short End of the Sonnenallee; Oxblood; Because They Can Play F’cking Good Football – reviews

A pitch-perfect East German novel translated by Jonathan Franzen; a gripping tale of the Manchester underworld; and Erik ten Hag in verse

The Guardian - UK

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton review – the root of all evil

The Booker-winner’s dark and brilliant tale of a gardening collective’s clash with a billionaire explodes the notion of caring capitalism

Evening Standard

How my life got quite a lot better when I went back to an old school Nokia

When Jimi Famurewa really needed to focus on his book deadline, he realised he needed to banish the smartphone and go back in time to something a whole lot... dumber

Newsroom.co.nz

Writers festival nightmare

A memoir of a brief wondrous humiliation at the Auckland Writers Festival.

The Orange County Register

Nell Zink talks about Southern California novel ‘Avalon’ and success after years of hard, unrewarding work

As “Avalon” opens, Bran, the young woman at the heart of Nell Zink’s coming-of-age story, sprawls on a grassy Southern California hillside and imagines that the “smear of moonlight” before her leads to Avalon.

The Conversation

So what is the good of book reviewing? A review of a review of the reviewers

Imagine you’re the literary editor for a major US newspaper, like The New York Times or The Washington Post. You know that getting a good notice in your paper can launch the career of a young writer and you’re far from indifferent to the fate of literary culture. You majored…

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