Gemini Uprising

A group of publishers including Hachette Book Group, as well as author Scott Turow, have filed a class action lawsuit against Google, alleging that the tech giant unlawfully used titles that publishers had provided for its Google Books feature to also train its Gemini large language models. Novelist Dinaw Mengestu has resigned as president of PEN America over the publication of a report on cultural boycotts and Israeli writers. And following Careless People author Sarah Wynn-Williams’s lawsuit against Meta, the industry is grappling with Meta’s attempts to silence the author and the implications for First Amendment rights in book publishing. Liveright appears to have pulled historian Kerri K. Greenidge’s celebrated 2022 book The Grimkes after several scholars raised questions about its citations and accuracy, reports the New York Times. Elle Fanning and Julianne Moore are set to star in a biopic of Goodnight Moon author Margaret Wise Brown, based on Leonard S. Marcus’s biography and helmed by Rebecca Miller, reports Deadline. The Atlantic’s Will Oremus gets to the bottom of the most tell-tale tic of AI writing: negative parallelism. The New Yorker’s Richard Brody digs into the only novel by French New Wave director Éric Rohmer, recently reissued by McNally Editions. And Herman Melville scholar Hershel Parker has died at 90.