US authors’ copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft combined in New York with newspaper actions https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/04/us-authors-copyright-lawsuits-against-openai-and-microsoft-combined-in-new-york-with-newspaper-actions #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Intellectualproperty #Ta-NehisiCoates #JonathanFranzen #SarahSilverman #GeorgeSaunders #MichaelChabon #JohnGrisham #JodiPicoult #Technology #Microsoft #JunotDíaz #Computing #Culture #ChatGPT #OpenAI #USnews #Books #Law

Before I moved to America, I spent time in university reading classic American writings. Whether it’s Walt Whitman, Nathanial Hawthorne, or Ursula K. Le Guin, there’s something here for everyone.
(10 Internet Points to anyone who knows a fun fact that connects Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau!)
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#AmericanLiterature #NortonAnthology #LiteraryClassics #MarkTwain #EmilyDickinson #FScottFitzgerald #ToniMorrison #SandraCisneros #DavidFosterWallace #JunotDiaz #LouiseErdrich

Reading Chuck Zerby, *The Devil’s Details: A History of Footnotes* (2002) today. I wonder if Junot Díaz had it in mind when he crafted that first, footnoted page of *The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao*. That little gesture is like a masterful précis and extension of the themes that Zerby develops in his book. #AmReading #footnotes #JunotDíaz