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An author and freelance journalist has admitted to using AI to help him write a book review for the New York Times. The Times promptly dropped Preston, calling his “reliance on A.I. and his use of ...

The New York Times has cut ties with a freelancer after the paper discovered he used AI to help write a book review that inadvertently incorporated elements of a Guardian review on the same title. A ...

I was stuck in an airport awaiting a flight after my original one was canceled. My options for how to occupy my time were limited. After grabbing lunch, I did something I tell every author I work with ...

When technology reporter Alex Heath has a scoop, he sits down at his computer and speaks into a microphone. He’s not talking to a human colleague—Heath went independent on Substack last year—he’s ...

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After all the hard work, a novel finally lands on bookshelves. A new story is born. But the gestation period, if you will, is often a mystifying process to readers. How does a book go from idea to ...

A new drama has taken the book publishing world by storm: The upcoming U.S. release of the horror book Shy Girl was canceled by Hachette Book Group just weeks ahead of its launch date due to suspicion ...

Book publishing has few safeguards in place to prevent the unwitting publication of a novel heavily generated by artificial intelligence. By Alexandra Alter For months, speculation has been building ...

Readers of Lucy Score’s new romance novel, “Mistakes Were Made,” will marvel at the cover and sprayed edges. They'll anticipate the love story that awaits them on the pages. But all the excitement in ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. In the course of drafting his story, Chandler was no less annoyed by Hollywood than by a ...

Most people who publish a book have been writing for years and, at the very least, have been lifelong readers. That wasn’t the case for Oliver James. The first-time author just released his first book ...