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In this collection of five stories, Chen explores themes of emotional isolation and dissatisfaction; her characters navigate turbulent interpersonal relationships while contending with sadness. In “Perfect House, Perfect Life,” a wife and mother feels the walls closing in around her, an emotional parallel to her downsizing of the family’s residence due to an equally decreasing …
This week in “who could possibly have seen it coming,” there has been a reaction against the Charter of Ethical AI Use I reported on at the end of last week. The Charter seeks to set standards it wanted companies working in the industry to adhere to if they do use AI, such as transparency, …
In 1967, Warhol published his Index, a silver-wrapped compendium of interview snippets; partial transcripts of recordings with members of his Factory, where silver was the dominant color; and black-and-white photographs of his work and acolytes. This facsimile reprint gives modern readers a chance to revisit or newly share in the experience. Most famously, Index was …
As a woman who had most of her six kids in her 30s, Larson knows what it’s like to be subjected to unsolicited thoughts, ideas, and criticisms from various people in her life. All of their input made her feel like she was “shrinking,” she says, but it also compelled her to explore constructive and …
As the story opens, 12-year-old Dylan Dearborne is yearning for a bit of permanence. She and her mother, Maggie, are living in Springfield, Oregon, in the early 1980s with a nice, decent man named Joe and his teen daughter, Anna. Maggie’s been wandering aimlessly with Dylan for years (“She’d been shuffled from one place to …
It’s 2023, and it’s been two weeks since Beatrice Carter awoke from seizure-induced unconsciousness, and she still has no idea who she is. The only identification on her person was a gym membership card, and even then, she’s unsure if the name on the ID is truly hers, as a police search yielded no results: …
The struggle for belonging and self-acceptance drives this Midwestern family’s mini-dramas in the 2010s. The humorously upbeat narrative alternates between the third-person perspectives of three generations of Jewish women: Mona Grossman, her teenage daughter Grace, and Mona’s grandmother, Esther “Bubby” Rosenfeld. Mona, a full-time homemaker, struggles to reconnect with Grace, and to save her marriage …
The title refers to lists readers are encouraged to make, which become the basis for the stimulating exercises, games, and prompts, organized in six chapters. Hendrix approaches the topic with a rare mixture of wit, sound advice, and philosophical musings, building to a work that’s far more than the sum of its parts. He establishes …
Hunter Long, a former professional boxer, has worked hard to make his own way at the CIA, despite constant comparisons between his own career and that of his late grandfather, an agency legend. Hunter receives a classified briefing one day and learns that a notorious Russian operative, Victor Chernov, is actually a double agent who’s …
In this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi Member Q&A podcast, hosts Michael La Ronn and Sacha Black discuss whether AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT can run an author’s book marketing, from managing Amazon ads to updating metadata and delivering weekly trend reports. The post Can AI Run Your Book Marketing? Member Q&A with …