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Everyone knows the story of the Titanic. But one quintessentially Australian story of survival, love and adventure lay dormant for more than a century before journalist and author Lisa Wilkinson raised it from the depths of the Atlantic.Everyone knows the story of the Titanic - the biggest, most magnificent, most expensive ship ever built.It was meant to be unsinkable. But when it hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic, it sank, killing 1500 people.For more than 100 years, the tragedy has inspired filmmakers, historians and explorers to unearth the incredible human stories of love, survival and class warfare.But for much of that time, there was one story that seemed to have been hidden amongst the wreckage, until journalist and author Lisa Wilkinson raised it from the bottom of the Atlantic.This is the story of Evelyn Marsden, the only Australian survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, and the real Titanic love story that shaped the rest of her life.The Titanic Story of Evelyn is published by Hachette.This episode of Conversations was produced by Meggie Morris. Executive Producer was Eliza Kirsch.It explores history, Australian stories, Jack and Rose, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, shipwrecks, survival stories, love stories, non-fiction books, modern history, David Cameron, OceanGate, submersible, submarine disaster, Bondi, 20th century Australia, nurses, nursing, doctors, working on cruise ships, adventurous women, falling in love.

Parades et célébrations le 19 juin 2026 aux États-Unis : le pays célèbre Juneteenth : l'émancipation et la liberté pour tous les esclaves dans tous les États du pays annoncée en 1865 au Texas, dernier État à avoir appris la nouvelle. Une fête célébrée cette année à Paris aussi à l'Arrêt, le restaurant de la cheffe afro-américaine Mashama Bailey et Johno Morisano, un restaurant aux saveurs du sud des États-Unis, à l'image de celle proposée dans le restaurant original à Savannah dans l'État de Géorgie.  Mashama Bailey est notre invitée. Pour une autre lecture de l'émission, ces time codes ont été notés pour vous permettre d'aller directement aux sujets qui vous intéressent. L'émission s'ouvre à Savannah en Géorgie, chez Mashama Bailey, sous le porche de sa maison, un après-midi de printemps avec ses parents, à partager un petit goûter salé de pâté en croûte et de quiche, héritage de ses années françaises peut-être. Aux origines du goût. Avant d'être cheffe, Mashama Bailey est une enfant qui mange. Dans la cuisine de sa mère et surtout de sa grand-mère, elle découvre sans le savoir une certaine idée du goût : des produits de saison, du fait maison, et une cuisine ancrée dans le quotidien, une cuisine rurale et végétale, fraîche et intuitive, pas tout à fait l'image caricaturale de la cuisine de la soul food, et du Sud. (3'30) Les racines de cette cuisine se trouvent dans la nature même de la ville de Savannah, au sud-est des États-Unis, un port né il y a un peu plus de 2 siècles, un refuge pour de nombreuses communautés. Ce melting pot constitue le socle de la tradition culinaire avec un plat emblématique : le Country Captain. Les légumes au cœur de la cuisine du Sud (8'00) : Choux, feuilles de moutarde, navets, maïs, patates, douces… Les légumes, les greens sont un pilier, les marqueurs d'une identité culinaire et culturelle, et sa grand-mère les lui a transmis. Elle n'avait pas de jardin mais connaissait les maraichers, les jardiniers, les pêcheurs, et il y avait toujours une casserole sur le feu, quant à Mashama, elle passe sa vie dehors, à cueillir les fruits chauffés par le soleil à même l'arbre. C'est en France que le déclic opère (12'03), Mashama cheffe privée pour une famille new yorkaise a l'impression de régresser et saisit l'opportunité de partir en France, en Bourgogne, pour se former. Elle redécouvre en Bourgogne les marchés, cette proximité entre le champ et l'assiette. De retour à Savannah, Mashama part à la rencontre de cette vraie cuisine du Sud, dont le reflet n'est pas le poulet frit que le marketing propose à toutes les sauces -quand à l'origine, il s'agit d'un plat de fête très long à préparer. « Quand je suis rentrée, j'ai compris tout ce que j'avais à apprendre sur cette cuisine du Sud, et on ne pouvait pas l'apprendre dans les restaurants. Pour la découvrir et la goûter, il fallait rencontrer des gens, être invitée chez eux, regarder, pour apprendre ces recettes du Sud, comme les pains de maïs, ou le succotash, c'est un ragout de légumes d'été. »   Fière de ses racines africaines, qui l'honorent et l'obligent. (15'27) Mashama Bailey revendique aujourd'hui une cuisine personnelle, qui raconte l'histoire des Afro- Américains, de ses racines noires, et en valeur cet précieux. Elle insiste sur la nécessité de préserver et transmettre ces recettes, notamment auprès des jeunes générations. Elle rappelle le rôle fondamental des Afro-Américains dans la construction des États-Unis, de la société, et de la culture culinaire américaine, ce qu'elle s'emploie à mettre en valeur et transmettre. (21'28) Transmettre, préserver, honorer ses racines et la mémoire afro-américaine. La rencontre avec The GREY, la station de bus à Savannah. The Greyhound bus station, (22'10) une station construite et utilisée pendant la ségrégation. En allant la visiter, la cheffe très émue a ressenti étonnamment qu'il y avait eu de la joie dans l'espace réservé aux Noirs, aux « gens de couleur », elle a alors compris qu'elle allait à son tour faire résonner la joie dans cet endroit, et la mémoire d'un peuple, qu'elle allait cuisiner. La cheffe raconte sa relation amicale et d'associés avec Johno Morisano, (24'40) puis revient sur son restaurant parisien L'Arrêt, où elle cherche à faire découvrir une cuisine du Sud contemporaine et exigeante, adaptée au contexte français mais fidèle à ses racines. Puis il est question de Juneteenth, des raisons pour lesquelles beaucoup d'États américains connaissent encore mal cette fête, très largement célébrée dans le Sud, dans les États esclavagistes, et de la fête organisée à Paris ! Johno Mosisano et Mashama Bailey ont ouvert l'Arrêt à Paris, 36 rue de l'Université, dans le 7ème arrondissement. Mashama Bailey a été sacrée meilleure cheffe des États-Unis le 13 juin 2022, par la fondation James Beard, soit plus haute distinction gastronomique du pays. La série Chef's table avec Mashama Bailey série qui a contribué à révéler la cheffe américaine. Le livre : Black, white and the Grey, éditions Random House. ► Pour aller plus loin : - Black Food, de Bryant Terry, Hachette cuisine - Shrimps and Grits, plat emplématique du Sud, ces crevettes et ce gruau de maïs, nous en avions parlé avec Mashama ici - Les racines africaines de la cuisine américaine - High on the hod, de Jessica B Harris et la série Netflix inspirée du livre : La part du lion en français. Programmation musicale : - Pata pata, de Miriam Makeba - Georgia on my mind, de Ray Charles. La recette :

Here's something I keep seeing in my office that almost nobody has language for. Your body and your nervous system run on completely different timelines. Your labs can be clear. Your divorce can be final. Your treatment can be done. And your nervous system can still be living inside the chapter you just survived, because nothing about getting through a hard thing actually tells your body it is safe to stop bracing. In this episode, I sit down with Amy Kurtz, the patient advocate who spent close to two decades trying to figure out why her body kept shutting down on her. Amy is a Hachette author whose new book But You Look Fine launches the day after this episode airs, and she coined a phrase for the exact experience I just described. She calls it Medical Trauma Brain. Her message has been endorsed by Mark Hyman, her own physician, and by David Perlmutter, Kris Carr, and Sharon Salzberg. After 36 doctors and a late-stage neurological Lyme diagnosis at 35, she didn't just heal physically. She figured out the part nobody warned her about. The part that comes after. In This Episode The exact phrase Amy's husband said in their kitchen that finally named what she could not name herself Why the gap between "you should be fine now" and "I do not feel fine" is not a personal failing Why this pattern is not just for chronic illness, it shows up after divorce, postpartum, fertility, caregiving, and any long hard chapter The five non-negotiables Amy now uses to decide whether a doctor is worth her time Why women carry this harder than men, both clinically and culturally What active movement actually does for an overstimulated nervous system (it is more than you think) The one tool Amy would give a woman tonight who is recognizing herself for the first time How to stay connected to the people you love when you are the person who is not okay This episode is for anyone who has technically gotten through something hard and quietly cannot understand why she still does not feel like herself. The illness that finally has a diagnosis. The divorce that is actually final. The postpartum body that healed on paper. The job she finally left. The caregiver who buried the person she was caring for and woke up the next morning still bracing. If you have been told you should be fine by now, and you are not, this conversation is going to give you language for what is actually happening in your body and a way forward that respects the timeline. Episode Breakdown: 00:02:04 The Gap Between Sick and Well Nobody Warned You About 00:05:10 36 Doctors and One Diagnosis: Amy's Story 00:13:25 What Is Medical Trauma Brain? 00:14:54 Why Your Body Still Doesn't Feel Safe (Even Though You're Fine) 00:21:05 How to Advocate for Yourself in a System That Won't 00:45:03 How to Regulate Your Nervous System After Trauma or Illness 00:51:01 The Wider Lens: Why This Isn't Just About Illness 00:56:00 The One Tool I'd Give a Woman Tonight Resources: Read the full article on this conversation, including everything we mentioned and where to find Amy's work Wondering what is keeping you stuck? Take our free What's Holding You Back quiz Ready to talk to someone about what you are carrying? Book a free consultation If a friend has been telling you she is fine and you can tell she is not, send her this episode. She will be glad you did. XO, Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby Growing Self Special thanks to this month's sponsors of the podcast: Upwork — When you need specialized talent fast, Upwork gives you access to vetted professionals across 125+ categories, from marketing to web development to operations support. No long recruiting cycles. No guesswork. Just the right person, when you need them. Check it out at upwork.com — posting a job is free. Shopify — The all-in-one platform for building and growing your online business. Visit shopify.com/lhs to explore their tools and access exclusive listener discounts. OSEA — Amazing, clean, science-backed skincare made with the power of the sea. Use code LHS at oseamalibu.com for 10% off your first order. LNutra Prolon — A science-backed, plant-based nutrition program that supports fat loss, metabolism, cellular rejuvenation, and overall longevity. Head to ProlonLife.com/LHS for 15% off your first order + a bonus gift.

Le rêve américain existait déjà avant l'Amérique ! Impossible ? Et pourtant dès le Moyen Âge, donc bien avant la colonisation atlantique, il y a déjà une lointaine cité, garnie de hautes tours, où tout devient possible ! C'est là que Sinbad le Marin, un héritier ruiné, devient richissime. Quant au vizir Iznogoud, il ne rêve que d'une chose : devenir calife à la place du calife. Pas de chance pour lui, c'est Aladdin, un mendiant orphelin, qui décroche le poste en épousant la princesse Jasmine d'Agrabah. Parce que oui, Agrabah c'est juste la version “Disney” de cette même ville : Bagdad ! La capitale de l'ambition et de l'ascension sociale, où tout devient possible ! Et c'est pas étonnant, vu que c'est son histoire incroyable mais bien réelle que nous allons découvrir !Bonne écoute !

Marcus Greville of Unity Books Wellington reviews Nuremberg Women by Natalie Livingstone, published by Hachette.

En 1985, soit trois ans après la mort du poète Georges Perec, les éditions Hachette publiaient un recueil de courts essais sous le titre Penser/Classer où la question du rangement des livres est interrogée. Qu'il s'agisse de les classer par ordre alphabétique, par continents ou par pays ou encore par couleurs, date d'acquisition, date de parution, formats, genres, grandes périodes littéraires, langues ou encore par priorités de … Continuer la lecture de « Metaclassique #382 – Classer »

In this episode, Kimberly Snyder and Brooke Taylor explore the deep roots of success related struggles, sharing insights on how cultural and intergenerational beliefs shape our worth. Brooke's practical-spiritual approach offers tools to align your ambitions with your authentic self, ending the cycle of never feeling enough.Chapters00:00 Introduction to the Success Wound02:54 Cultural Influences on Self-Worth05:58 The Archetypes of Success Wound09:02 The Grinder and the Pleaser12:04 The Hider and the Impact of Motherhood15:06 Navigating Ambition and Personal Power18:08 Finding Your North Star19:32 The Journey of Writing and Self-Discovery22:05 Navigating Vulnerability and Intentions in Publishing25:49 The Archetypes of Success and Their Impact29:30 Healing the Success Wound: Emotional and Behavioral Strategies34:41 Finding Wholeness Through Connection and AbundanceSponsors: LMNTOFFER: Right now, for my listeners LMNT is offering a free sample pack with any LMNT drink mix purchase at DrinkLMNT.com/FEELGOOD. That's 8 single serving packets FREE with any LMNT any LMNT drink mix purchase. This deal is only available through my link so. Also try the new LMNT Sparkling — a bold, 16-ounce can of sparkling electrolyte water.USE LINK: DrinkLMNT.com/FEELGOODBrooke Taylor Resources: Book: Healing the Success Wound: Align Your Ambition, Find Lasting Career Fulfillment, and End the Cycle of Never-Enough Website: www.brooketaylorcoaching.comBio: Brooke Taylor is a globally recognized transformational career coach, keynote speaker, and the leading authority on a phenomenon she pioneered known as the “Success Wound™.” With a career that began in the high-pressure hallways of Silicon Valley, Brooke spent years as a Marketing Lead at Google, where she was honored with the Google Global Sales Award. Despite her outward accolades, she experienced firsthand the "manic ambition" and burnout that often plague high achievers, leading her to a profound personal transformation and the eventual founding of her coaching practice.Brooke's highly anticipated first book, "Healing the Success Wound" (published by Hachette, May 2026), which serves as a definitive guide for women to reclaim their identities from the "Success Wound". Today, Brooke is the secret weapon for executive women at the world's most influential firms, including Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Uber, Salesforce, Coinbase, and Meta. She has helped over 5,000 leaders decouple their self-worth from their achievements, allowing them to trade chronic burnout and workplace anxiety for a career rooted in deep fulfillment and sustainable power.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Avsnitt 320. Jan Smedh är en av Sveriges mer framgångsrika bokhandlare i modern tid och en talför representant i Bokhandlarföreningens styrelse. Men nu seglar en konflikt upp i nämnda styrelse och Jan Smedh vänder sig till Förlagspodden för att få ut sina argument i en fråga han håller för principiellt viktig. Vi fick en fråga från en författare om royaltysystemet och de långa ledtiderna. Förläggaren ger oss en genomgång om vad, hur och varför. Det pågår en, i botten, politisk konflikt inom Hachettes förlagsgrupp i Frankrike. Nu blossar en konflikt upp inom Hachette USA där förlagsledningen aktivt går ut och motarbetar bildandet av en fackförening. Argumenten är grova och provokativa med svenska ögon sett. Är det Hachettes ägare, Vincent Bolloré, som ligger bakom att den här frågan drivs så aggressivt? Journalisten vill tro det. Ljudboken minskar på den finska marknaden. Ett trendbrott och något som inte hänt tidigare. Är det framtiden även för den svenska marknaden? Förläggaren vill tro det och pekar på vilka konsekvenser det kan leda till. De maskinframställda böckerna väller in i de amerikanska återförsäljarnas kanaler, återförsäljare som har svårt att upptäcka vad som är vad samtidigt som de är rädda för att få dåligt rykte bland kunderna om de inte löser problemet. Vi ger er en ögonblicksbild av läget just nu. Den franska regeringen fick rätt i Högsta domstolen mot Amazon som tvingas ta ut fraktkostnaden av sina kunder i stället för att använda det i ett priskrig. Slutligen får journalisten påskrivet att han nog inte är så kunnig som han vill tro när han har tankar om vad som gör en bra bokhandel.   Länk till inslaget om maskinproducerade böcker: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34777/w34777.pdf   00 22         En ovanlig konflikt i Bokhandlarföreningen 06 24         Royaltyutbetalningar, i väntan på något gott… 11 29         Hachette USA bekämpar medarbetarnas vilja att starta en fackförening 16 05         Den finländska ljudboksmarknaden backar 19 23         Maskinproducerade böcker översvämmar den amerikanska marknaden 24 10         Amazon mot Frankrikes regering 0-1 26 16         Journalisten vet inte alltid vad han pratar om

Chaque mois, Voix de femmes met en avant des femmes aux parcours singuliers, inspirants ou méconnus. Chaque épisode rassemble plusieurs portraits, racontés dans le but de révéler la force, la créativité et la résilience de celles qui façonnent notre monde. Cette semaine, Lucie Bouteloup reçoit la première profileuse de France, la lieutenant-colonel de gendarmerie Marie-Laure Brunel Dupin. Elle est aujourd'hui chef de la division des affaires non élucidées (DIANE). C'est elle qui a mis en place et commandé pendant plus de 20 ans le département des sciences du comportement.    Avec : Marie-Laure BRUNEL-DUPIN, lieutenant-colonel de gendarmerie, cheffe de la Division des affaires non élucidées (DiANE) et coautrice du roman La Boule au ventre (Hachette, Black Lab)   À découvrir également dans l'émission : Rencontre avec Adina Ntankeu, 47 ans, styliste créatrice originaire du Cameroun. Atteinte d'albinisme et mère de trois enfants, elle a créé l'association ANIDA pour soutenir les minorités albinos. De fil en aiguille, Adina a su faire sa place dans le milieu de la mode, elle a notamment exposé une de ses créations au Musée de l'Homme à Paris lors de l'exposition Wax. Aujourd'hui, elle organise des défilés inclusifs où elle met en valeur toutes les morphologies pour sensibiliser aux différentes formes de discrimination. Notre reporter Raphaëlle Constant l'a rencontrée dans son atelier à Versailles, en région parisienne.    En fin d'émission, la chronique Écoutez le monde de Monica Fantini.    Programmation musicale :    ► Psycho - Tshegue ► Yelele - Nezoak, Mariaa Siga.  

Chaque mois, Voix de femmes met en avant des femmes aux parcours singuliers, inspirants ou méconnus. Chaque épisode rassemble plusieurs portraits, racontés dans le but de révéler la force, la créativité et la résilience de celles qui façonnent notre monde. Cette semaine, Lucie Bouteloup reçoit la première profileuse de France, la lieutenant-colonel de gendarmerie Marie-Laure Brunel Dupin. Elle est aujourd'hui chef de la division des affaires non élucidées (DIANE). C'est elle qui a mis en place et commandé pendant plus de 20 ans le département des sciences du comportement.    Avec : Marie-Laure BRUNEL-DUPIN, lieutenant-colonel de gendarmerie, cheffe de la Division des affaires non élucidées (DiANE) et coautrice du roman La Boule au ventre (Hachette, Black Lab)   À découvrir également dans l'émission : Rencontre avec Adina Ntankeu, 47 ans, styliste créatrice originaire du Cameroun. Atteinte d'albinisme et mère de trois enfants, elle a créé l'association ANIDA pour soutenir les minorités albinos. De fil en aiguille, Adina a su faire sa place dans le milieu de la mode, elle a notamment exposé une de ses créations au Musée de l'Homme à Paris lors de l'exposition Wax. Aujourd'hui, elle organise des défilés inclusifs où elle met en valeur toutes les morphologies pour sensibiliser aux différentes formes de discrimination. Notre reporter Raphaëlle Constant l'a rencontrée dans son atelier à Versailles, en région parisienne.    En fin d'émission, la chronique Écoutez le monde de Monica Fantini.    Programmation musicale :    ► Psycho - Tshegue ► Yelele - Nezoak, Mariaa Siga.  

Antoun Issa grew up quietly aware of a profound grief in his mother's eyes. As an adult, after living and working in the Middle East, he finally knew how to ask her about surviving the Lebanese Civil War.Antoun is a journalist who grew up in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, after his parents had escaped the civil war in Lebanon in the 1970s.Growing up in Craigieburn as the baby of the family, Antoun was particularly close with his mother.He was always conscious of a deep sadness in his mother's eyes, but was wary of asking her too many questions.As an adult, Antoun went to live and work in Lebanon.There, in the Middle East, where he worked as a journalist, Antoun saw firsthand what happens when the trajectory of human life is interrupted by conflict and violence.Upon returning home to Australia, he was finally ready to ask his mother about the source of her quiet and enduring grief, and what came out of her was a remarkable story of true love, true loss and resilience.Upon returning home to Australia, he was finally ready to ask his mother about the source of her quiet and enduring grief, and what came out of her was a remarkable story of true love, true loss and resilience.REBIRTH: A Love Story from the Depths of War is published by Hachette.This episode of Conversations was produced by Meggie Morris. Executive Producer is Eliza Kirsch.It explores the Middle East, War, Conflict, Beiruit, Israel, PLO, Palestine, United States, civil war, conflict, refugees, religious conflict, Lebanese Christians, Sunni Muslims, Shia Muslims, Mountains, Maronite Christians, politics and religion, proxy wars, Iran, Iraq, Arab-Isreali, Saudi, Cold War, Arab Cold War, Taif Agreement, political power, relationship, origin story, writing, books, memoir, novel, survival, death, violence, sliding doors.To binge even more great episodes of the Conversations podcast with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski go the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. There you'll find hundreds of the best thought-provoking interviews with authors, writers, artists, politicians, psychologists, musicians, and celebrities.

This Day in Legal History: Chinese Exclusion ActOn May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act into law. The law imposed a 10-year ban on the immigration of Chinese laborers to the United States. It also made Chinese immigrants already in the country ineligible for naturalized citizenship, marking a major turn toward federal immigration restriction. The National Archives describes it as the first significant U.S. law restricting immigration and notes that it targeted an ethnic working group on the theory that it threatened public order.The law grew out of anti-Chinese racism and labor anxiety, especially in the American West, where Chinese workers were blamed for low wages and job competition. Although the Act formally applied to “Chinese laborers,” its enforcement burdened many Chinese people seeking entry, including those who claimed exempt status. The National Archives notes that the law helped create a broader framework for later race- and class-based exclusionary immigration policy.The Act was not temporary in practice. Congress extended it through the Geary Act of 1892, later made the exclusion regime permanent, and did not repeal the ban until 1943, during World War II, when the United States and China were allies.OpenAI president Greg Brockman testified in federal court that Elon Musk once supported changing OpenAI from a nonprofit into a for-profit company, but wanted full control of the organization as part of that shift. Brockman said Musk believed the nonprofit model could not raise enough money to build advanced AI systems. According to Brockman, Musk also said he needed an $80 billion stake to help fund a self-sustaining city on Mars. Brockman described a tense 2017 meeting where Musk allegedly rejected a proposed equity structure, became angry, took a painting made for him by Ilya Sutskever, and left while threatening to pause funding.Musk's lawsuit claims OpenAI and Sam Altman misled him into donating $38 million to a nonprofit that later abandoned its charitable mission in favor of profit. Musk is seeking $150 billion in damages for the nonprofit and wants Altman and Brockman removed from leadership. OpenAI argues that Musk is upset because he left before the company became highly successful and is now trying to gain control while also advancing his own AI company, xAI. Brockman also faced questions about his own financial interests, including testimony that his OpenAI stake is worth nearly $30 billion and evidence of an old diary entry about reaching $1 billion. OpenAI later created a for-profit unit controlled by the nonprofit, which helped it raise massive sums for computing power, hiring, and expansion.Musk wanted $80 billion to colonize Mars, OpenAI president testifies at trial | ReutersPublishers Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan, and McGraw Hill, along with author Scott Turow, sued Meta in federal court in Manhattan over its AI training practices. The lawsuit claims Meta used millions of copyrighted books and journal articles without permission to train its Llama large language models. The works allegedly included textbooks, scientific publications, and novels, such as books by N.K. Jemisin and Peter Brown. The publishers are seeking class-action status so they can represent a broader group of copyright owners. They are also asking for monetary damages.Meta responded that AI training can qualify as fair use and said it plans to fight the case. The publishers argue that using allegedly pirated copies of creative and scholarly works is not the same as lawful innovation. The case joins a growing wave of lawsuits by authors, news organizations, artists, and other creators against AI companies, including Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic. These lawsuits largely turn on whether using copyrighted works to train AI models is legally protected because the resulting systems create something new and transformative. Courts have not yet settled the issue, and early rulings have pointed in different directions. Anthropic previously resolved one major author lawsuit for $1.5 billion, showing how financially significant these disputes can become.Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training | ReutersThe U.S. Supreme Court allowed its recent Louisiana voting-rights ruling to take effect earlier than usual, clearing the way for political and legal consequences before the November midterm elections. The Court's April 29 decision had struck down a Louisiana congressional map that created a second Black-majority district. That ruling weakened a major part of the Voting Rights Act by limiting challenges to maps that allegedly dilute minority voting power. Normally, the Supreme Court waits 32 days before issuing its formal judgment, giving the losing side time to seek rehearing. Here, the Court agreed to speed up the process after a request from the voters who had won the case.The move helps Louisiana Republicans pursue a new congressional map and may weaken lawsuits challenging Governor Jeff Landry's decision to delay the state's May 16 congressional primaries. Some challengers had argued that Landry acted too soon because the Supreme Court's ruling had not formally taken effect yet. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, saying the Court's accelerated action had created disorder in Louisiana. The case is part of a broader national fight over redistricting, especially as both parties seek advantages in House races. The dispute began after Louisiana drew a second majority-Black district in 2024 to address a prior court ruling that the old map harmed Black voters under the Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court later held that the replacement map relied too heavily on race, violating equal protection principles.US Supreme Court lets Voting Rights Act ruling take effect ahead of schedule | Reuters This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

Hosts Michael Tamblyn and Nathan Maharaj dove deep on the controversy around the book Shy Girl, which was cancelled by its publisher who alleged it was largely AI-generated. Links on Shy Girl: The video from January 2026 that seems to have led to Shy Girl's cancellation: i'm pretty sure this book is ai slop - YouTube Publishing news journalist Alexandra Alter on the controversy over the cancellation of Shy Girl: A.I. Is Writing Fiction. Publishers Are Unprepared. - The New York Times Publishing industry analyst Thad McIlroy on what NYT omitted from their piece: I Broke the Year's Biggest Literary Story. The New York Times Took the Credit | The Walrus Two very "inside baseball" overviews of what happened: The New Publishing Standard's deep dive on Shy Girl Publisher's Weekly industry analysis What might be the last extant page on any of Hachette's sites about the book: Shy Girl: Read the femgore revenge novel that EVERYONE is talking about! by Mia Ballard - Books - Hachette Australia Other links from this episode: Why AI detection is hard People who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks are accurate and robust detectors of AI-generated text - ACL Anthology (mistakenly attributed to MIT in the episode) Past episodes of this show that touched on the use of AI in book publishing: Michael bets on "AI Sally Rooney" (from October 2024) Anna Gomez enlisted AI for research assistance when writing a romance road trip (November 2024) Sean Michaels wrote a book about AI and art by using AI for parts of it (November 2023) More author interviews at kobo.com/conversation Find past Booktalking episodes here

Sam Vander Wielen is an attorney turned entrepreneur who built the go-to legal template shop for online businesses. Her flagship product, the Ultimate Bundle, a package of fill-in-the-blank contracts and video trainings, has generated over $8 million in lifetime revenue and now earns close to $2 million per year with essentially one full-time employee. She published her first book with Hachette in April 2025, and she runs everything through a single evergreen webinar funnel that quietly generates six figures a month between launches. I met Sam at Craft and Commerce last year, and when I saw her post about 10,000+ webinar registrants and a $500,000 launch, I knew I had to talk to her. What blew me away wasn't the numbers; it was the simplicity. One product. One funnel. Two launches a year. Relentless customer research. She's the clearest example I've seen of someone who found the main thing and refused to let anything pull her off it. Sam Vander Wielen Sam's Sidebar Newsletter The Ultimate Bundle Book: When I Start My Business, I'll Be Happy (Hachette, 2025) On Your Terms Podcast Sam on Barrett Brooks' podcast (referenced in intro) VideoAsk Growth in Reverse (Chenell Basilio) — referenced interview Full transcript and show notes *** TIMESTAMPS (00:00) Jay introduces Sam and her $8M+ legal template business (02:27) What the Ultimate Bundle actually is — and why it hasn't changed much since 2017 (03:47) The Olive Garden effect: how Sam thinks about community and lifetime customer support (10:00) The $500K launch breakdown — what went right and why it wasn't an accident (13:28) Sam's full launch strategy: the teaser period, invite period, and treating registration like concert tickets (18:03) The on-webinar bonus that drove 128 purchases live — and why a book beat a $100 discount (22:56) How Sam uses VideoAsk to boost show-up rates and make 11,000 registrants feel personally seen (28:39) Voice of customer research: quarterly customer calls, AI transcript synthesis, and why Sam still reads the raw transcripts herself (33:14) Why working less keeps making the business better — and what the 'entrepreneurial gap year' actually means (36:04) What motivates Sam (honest answer: fear) — and what Jay relates to in that (42:00) Why AI isn't a threat to Sam's business — and how she reframed the 'doubt language' from Google to Claude *** RECOMMENDED NEXT EPISODE #292: Chenell Basilio — The state of email in 2026, growing your list without social media, and new predictions. *** ASK CREATOR SCIENCE Submit your question here *** WHEN YOU'RE READY

PAPER: https://ourpapernow.org/ Boycott REI! https://boycottrei.com/ May Day was the biggest it's been in years, and we spend much of the episode discussing the major protests in the US and around the world for International Workers Day. Workers in South Carolina spent their May Day picketing Elbit Systems in an effort to end their community's role in US-Israeli genocide. Bozeman mobile home residents have launched the state's first rent strike in half a century after their absentee landlords have left their communities to rot. We also have headlines from ISU, UIC, the Woodburn School District, the former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, REI, Hachette, and Amazon. Join the discord: discord.gg/tDvmNzX  Follow the pod at instagram.com/workstoppage, @WorkStoppagePod on Twitter,  John @facebookvillain, and Lina @solidaritybee

Depuis plusieurs années déjà, le tourisme semble s'attirer toutes les critiques. Loin du plaisir de la découverte, de la joie des voyages, ce sont plutôt les longues files d'attente au musée, les plages surpeuplées, les hordes de smartphones fixés sur les monuments ou encore la hausse des prix du logement pour les locaux, qui prennent le dessus. Il faut dire que le tourisme n'en finit plus d'affoler les compteurs avec, en 2025, un nouveau record. Selon le dernier baromètre ONU tourisme, environ 1,52 milliard de touristes ont effectué un voyage à l'étranger en 2025. Des chiffres qui ne tiennent même pas compte du tourisme local. Une bonne nouvelle pour la France, toujours première destination mondiale, mais aussi le Brésil, l'Éthiopie ou le Bhoutan qui ont vu bondir le nombre de touristes internationaux. Car pour les pays, le tourisme est avant tout une manne financière. En France, il contribue à 8% du PIB et génère 2 millions d'emplois. Un levier de croissance non négligeable auquel les détracteurs du tourisme de masse opposent notamment les conséquences environnementales. Selon une étude publiée dans la revue Nature communications en 2024, 9% des émissions de gaz à effet de serre dans le monde sont liées au tourisme. Encadrement des meublés touristiques, taxes de séjour, quotas d'accès à certains sites, code de conduite... Des villes comme Amsterdam, Venise, Barcelone, Lisbonne ont pris des mesures pour limiter les conséquences du surtourisme face à l'hostilité grandissante de leurs habitants.   Si certains évoquent le mépris de classe face au tourisme de masse, force est de constater que le tourisme transforme les territoires et les sociétés.  Peut-on réguler le tourisme sans remettre en cause le droit aux vacances ? Comment améliorer la cohabitation entre locaux et touristes ? Que signifie la notion de tourisme durable et est-il possible ?   Avec : Remy Knafou, géographe, professeur émérite de l'Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne. Auteur de Hypertourisme – le tourisme à l'épreuve de sa démesure (édition du Faubourg en partenariat avec la Fondation Jean Jaurès, 2026) Benjamin Martinie, réalisateur et photographe passionné de voyage. Créateur de contenus sur les réseaux sociaux et fondateur de HOURRAIL !, média communautaire sur le voyage bas carbone. Auteur de Voyager en train avec HOURRAIL (Hachette, 2024).   À découvrir également dans l'émission : Un entretien avec Elise Gazengel, correspondante de RFI à Barcelone en Espagne, deuxième puissance touristique mondiale, derrière la France en termes de nombre de touristes accueillis mais devant en termes de revenus.  En fin d'émission, rencontre avec Agnès Daguilh, 37 ans, créatrice d'Admundo Concept, une librairie itinérante spécialisée dans les livres, jeux et poupées créés par des auteurs et artistes africains ou afro-descendants. Une manière de transmettre les histoires et les cultures du continent africain aux jeunes générations. Notre reporter Raphaelle Constant l'a rencontrée à Paris. Programmation musicale : ► Rien à fêter - Camille Yembe ► Quero - Trinix, Ina.  

Depuis plusieurs années déjà, le tourisme semble s'attirer toutes les critiques. Loin du plaisir de la découverte, de la joie des voyages, ce sont plutôt les longues files d'attente au musée, les plages surpeuplées, les hordes de smartphones fixés sur les monuments ou encore la hausse des prix du logement pour les locaux, qui prennent le dessus. Il faut dire que le tourisme n'en finit plus d'affoler les compteurs avec, en 2025, un nouveau record. Selon le dernier baromètre ONU tourisme, environ 1,52 milliard de touristes ont effectué un voyage à l'étranger en 2025. Des chiffres qui ne tiennent même pas compte du tourisme local. Une bonne nouvelle pour la France, toujours première destination mondiale, mais aussi le Brésil, l'Éthiopie ou le Bhoutan qui ont vu bondir le nombre de touristes internationaux. Car pour les pays, le tourisme est avant tout une manne financière. En France, il contribue à 8% du PIB et génère 2 millions d'emplois. Un levier de croissance non négligeable auquel les détracteurs du tourisme de masse opposent notamment les conséquences environnementales. Selon une étude publiée dans la revue Nature communications en 2024, 9% des émissions de gaz à effet de serre dans le monde sont liées au tourisme. Encadrement des meublés touristiques, taxes de séjour, quotas d'accès à certains sites, code de conduite... Des villes comme Amsterdam, Venise, Barcelone, Lisbonne ont pris des mesures pour limiter les conséquences du surtourisme face à l'hostilité grandissante de leurs habitants.   Si certains évoquent le mépris de classe face au tourisme de masse, force est de constater que le tourisme transforme les territoires et les sociétés.  Peut-on réguler le tourisme sans remettre en cause le droit aux vacances ? Comment améliorer la cohabitation entre locaux et touristes ? Que signifie la notion de tourisme durable et est-il possible ?   Avec : Remy Knafou, géographe, professeur émérite de l'Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne. Auteur de Hypertourisme – le tourisme à l'épreuve de sa démesure (édition du Faubourg en partenariat avec la Fondation Jean Jaurès, 2026) Benjamin Martinie, réalisateur et photographe passionné de voyage. Créateur de contenus sur les réseaux sociaux et fondateur de HOURRAIL !, média communautaire sur le voyage bas carbone. Auteur de Voyager en train avec HOURRAIL (Hachette, 2024).   À découvrir également dans l'émission : Un entretien avec Elise Gazengel, correspondante de RFI à Barcelone en Espagne, deuxième puissance touristique mondiale, derrière la France en termes de nombre de touristes accueillis mais devant en termes de revenus.  En fin d'émission, rencontre avec Agnès Daguilh, 37 ans, créatrice d'Admundo Concept, une librairie itinérante spécialisée dans les livres, jeux et poupées créés par des auteurs et artistes africains ou afro-descendants. Une manière de transmettre les histoires et les cultures du continent africain aux jeunes générations. Notre reporter Raphaelle Constant l'a rencontrée à Paris. Programmation musicale : ► Rien à fêter - Camille Yembe ► Quero - Trinix, Ina.  

From Hyperion, the publishing arm of Walt Disney, to Hachette, to launching her own IMPRINT, REGALO PRESS.GRETCHEN YOUNG says "how can I prove to everyone else and to myself that these stories are worthy?" Now that she's working for her own shingle. She has nurtured, coached, mentoried and launched 65 authors. "I've never seen the kind of marketing of an author...the guerrilla marketing, the HUSTLE." She is releasing a couple new TITLES this month including "Little Red Flags," fiction. She says this author is so hilarious and clever in the way she is getting her book out there to pre-order!She was in TV NEWS before book publishing and used to be an "ambulance chaser" for the story, for the guests to book for GOOD MORNING AMERICA. Now she is letting the authors help - PR doesn't work so much anymore- millions of books are released each year- for real- so how do you BREAK THRU? "Our authors are hugging each other..it fills my heart!"Gretchen Young loves to mentor and help writers learn about the book business and she is so proud of the debut authors she has placed on her list."I'll walk authors thru the process...whatever I can do!"You can reach out to Gretchen: https://posthillpress.com/regalo-pressand on Regalo's instagram or her LinkedIn. Or you can email directly: gretchen@regalopress.com"I try to be warm and fuzzy."She discusses literary agents, formats, conventions of submissions and proposals. Do not miss a word- Listen UP! If you're interested in learning more about MORE ZAP PRODUCTIONS & MANAGEMENT LLC, you can visit www.morezap.comand if you're interested in pitching yourself or your client as a guest of this podcast, reach out to Michelle and TEAM at www.passion-power.comBTW Regalo means "gift" in Spanish and Gretchen studied Spanish literature in college. She has published/edited some amazing writers- some very big names- but she's also excited about editing with the new crop. "Know your voice.""What's your JAM?" Here are kernels of gold! Share these episodes with your friends, colleagues, and students in the arts, entertainment, media. #passiontopowerWe are offering WORKSHOPS and International on line and in-person EVENTS with PASSION TO POWER. Reach out for more info! Morezapwave@gmail.com

Quick reviews and impressions of geek-adjacent books is the thrust of this one. There's My First Adventure: Discovering Atlantis, which is a traditional-feeling choose-your-own-adventure book via Hachette, as well as a closer look at Dead Beard's Curse: Smart Book from Peasoup, which uses augmented reality to take “turn to page XX”-type books to another level. And the book chat goes on: if you love food and curious crime, you'll gobble up Butter by Asako Yuzuki via 4th Estate. As is often the case, it's an episode of other “firsts”, including a first Pokémon and Mario game, and how us as parents can share personal favourites with our kids for the first time. Finally, there's Zenith, a game we can't stop playing. It's a strategy game from PlayPunk, a 2-4 player lane battler tug of war from the same folks behind Castle Combo. All that, and on-the-fly-editing of children's authors, on Ep246. 00:00 - Hayfever and Tartar Sauce 06:54 - Some firsts and sharing things with our kids 19:58 - My First Adventure: Discovering Atlantis 26:37 - Dead Beard's Curse: Smart Book 35:44 - Butter 46:47 - Zenith On this episode were Dan (@ThisDanFrost), Kris (@DigitalStrider), and Sam (@MrSamTurner). Our Spotify Playlist brings together lots of great thematic music inspired by the stuff we talk about, our Steam Curator page collects every video game we've ever reviewed available on the platform, and our BoardGameGeek page does the same for every boardgame. And if you'd like to see what we're up to between podcasts, your best bet is our Instagram page. Links to where you can find us - StayingInPodcast.com Note: sometimes we'll have been sent a review copy of the thing we're talking about on the podcast. It doesn't skew how we think about that thing, and we don't receive compensation for anything we discuss, but we thought you might like to know this is the case.

Le lundi 13 avril, l'éditeur Olivier Nora, qui dirigeait Grasset depuis 26 ans, a été licencié. Dans la foulée, plus de 200 auteurs ont annoncé leur départ de la prestigieuse maison d'édition et de nombreux acteurs du monde du livre ont affiché leur soutien.Depuis 2023, Grasset est détenue, via sa maison mère Hachette, par le milliardaire Vincent Bolloré. Les tensions entre Olivier Nora et les dirigeants du groupe se sont aggravées ces derniers mois, notamment avec l'annonce de l'arrivée de l'écrivain algérien Boualem Sansal chez Grasset. Son limogeage a provoqué un séisme dans le monde de l'édition, qui voit dans ce changement de direction une reprise en main de Vincent Bolloré et une menace pour la liberté d'expression.Cet épisode de Code source est raconté par Sandrine Bajos, journaliste au service culture du Parisien. Elle couvre l'actualité littéraire.Écoutez Code source sur toutes les plates-formes audio : Apple Podcast (iPhone, iPad), Amazon Music, Podcast Addict ou Castbox, Deezer, Spotify.Crédits. Direction de la rédaction : Pierre Chausse - Rédacteur en chef : Jules Lavie - Reporter : Judith Perret - Production : Clara Garnier-Amouroux et Barbara Gouy - Réalisation et mixage : Théo Albaric - Musiques : François Clos, Audio Network - Photo : Magali Cohen/Hans Lucas - Archive : France 24, RTL, TV5 Monde. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Une femme en kimono sortant d'un métro parisien : quelle est sa vie ? Vit-elle à Paris ? Pourquoi cette femme a-t-elle décidé de venir vivre en France ? Est-elle mariée à un Français ? Qui sont ses amis ? Que mange-t-elle ? Autant de questions à l'origine du livre de Dorothée Perkins, photographe, autrice et imprégnée de culture japonaise. (Rediffusion) De rencontres en rencontres, riches, entre Paris et Tokyo, elle a découvert un monde, et discerné les sources de la romance qu'entretiennent le Japon et la France depuis près de 2 siècles. Pour notre émission, le rendez-vous avait été donné chez Kiko et Tsuyu, mère et fille, toute deux artistes, peintre et plasticienne installées dans le 14ème arrondissement de Paris -un merveilleux îlot japonais- chez deux amies de 20 ans de Dorothée Perkins. Une rencontre suspendue, hors du temps, autour de la préparation d'un repas, observer les gestes, la confection de l'incontournable bouillon dashi, se découvrir, échanger, et au fil du repas confirmer l'attirance et le lien si doux entre nos cultures. Avec la peintre Kiko Shimizu, sa fille : l'artiste plasticienne Tsuyu Bridwell, Koto sa petite fille et Dorothée Perkins, photographe et autrice de « Paris Tokyo mon amour », paru aux éditions La Martinière. Un voyage dans le monde entre Paris et Tokyo, et des adresses de cœur y sont partagées comme chuchotées à l'oreille, ce livre est un cadeau. Dorothée Perkins est aussi l'autrice de « La foi, la fourche, la fourchette » avec Perrine Bulgheroni, aux éditions Hachette. Sur les réseaux. Pour découvrir le travail de Tsuyu Bridwell.   EN IMAGES   Pour aller plus loin - Épiceries Kioko, la première et la plus ancienne, 46 rue des Petits-Champs, Paris 2ème - Irasshai : 4-8 rue du Louvre, 75001 Paris - Dans l'émission, nous découvrons l'école hôtelière Tsuji dans le Beaujolais - L'association de Kimonos, de Yuki Eiffeil - Le parc de Sceaux pour observer les cerisiers en fleurs - Kunitoraya, rue Sainte Anne à Paris - Les ramen chez Sapporo   - Mika et Xavier Pensec à Brest, véritable sushi-ya, la cuisine de Xavier est un art : Hinoki - Le café Verlet à Paris  - L'association Quartier Japon - La maison du Japon  - Maison du Moji  - Nukadoko : légumes lactofermentés au son de riz - La banque de Tokyo, rue Sainte Anne, a laissé sa place aujourd'hui au supermarché coréen K-Mart - Cuisine japonaise maison, de Maori Murota - Dictionnaire gourmand du Japon, de Chihiro Masui, éditions Flammarion - Les livres de Ryoko Sekiguchi notamment Nagori, aux éditions P.O.L - Paul Claudel l'oiseau noir dans le soleil levant, aux éditions NRF - Perfect Days, de Wim Wenders.   Programmation musicale : Allons voir, de Feu ! Chatterton.

Hachette pulls a book. Claude source code leaks. HarperCollins signs a deal with an AI animation studio.... The DRS Crew pontificates. DRS caffeinates with Larry's Coffee. If you want to purchase fair-trade, organically grown beans that brew into smooth, balanced, never-bitter coffee, visit LarrysCoffee.com/drs, receive a free gift with your purchase, and help support The Dead Robots' Society. Our links: Paul's store: https://payhip.com/paulecooley Paul's site:  https://shadowpublications.com Terry's site: https://www.terrymixon.com/ Veronica: http://www.voicesbyveronica.com/ DRS Discord: https://discord.gg/pgmQxaVbGP Enjoy the show? Consider becoming a Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee supporter and for as little as $1 a month, you can help keep the podcast free and receive exclusive content. More information at https://patreon.com/drspodcast  and https://buymeacoffee.com/drspodcast. #writing #fiction #podcast #chat #live #novel #story #narrative #publishing #author #writer #discussion #podcast #talkshow  

C'est le moment ou jamais de pousser la porte et d'aller chez votre libraire… Deux dates importantes : 23 avril, la Journée mondiale du livre et du droit d'auteur, et samedi 25 avril, la Fête de la librairie indépendante, initiée voilà presque 30 ans par Marie-Rose Guarnieri. Invitées :  Marie-Rose Guarnieri, libraire française, dirige la Librairie des Abbesses à Paris, créatrice du Prix Wepler et de la Fête de la librairie indépendante Audrey Neveu, gérante de la librairie Les 2 GeorgeS à Bondy et à Bobigny, en région parisienne. 420 millions de livres sont vendus chaque année, près d'un livre sur deux est acheté en librairie indépendante  À l'origine de la Fête de la librairie indépendante, la Sant Jordi, une fête catalane. Initiée il y a près de trente ans par Marie‑Rose Guarnieri, libraire à Montmartre, cette journée s'enracine dans une histoire de résistance. Sous le franquisme, le 23 avril était la seule journée durant laquelle écrivains, intellectuels et opposants au régime pouvaient manifester dans les rues, livres et roses à la main, pour réclamer le retour à la démocratie et la liberté de publication. En France, la Sant Jordi coïncide avec la Journée mondiale du livre et du droit d'auteur. Elle rappelle le rôle fondamental des libraires : ceux qui choisissent les livres, rémunèrent les auteurs, défendent la pluralité des voix et rendent visible une profession essentielle à la vie démocratique. Aujourd'hui, sur les 3 000 librairies indépendantes en France, plus de 700 participent à cette fête en France, en Belgique et en Suisse francophones, offrant à chaque lecteur un livre et une rose. Et plus de 80 pays participent à cette journée. Libraires indépendants : un métier fragile Marie‑Rose Guarnieri et Audrey Neveu dressent un portrait sensible du métier de libraire aujourd'hui. Qu'il s'exerce à Paris ou en province, ce métier est marqué par une grande fragilité économique, mais porté par une conviction forte. Conseillers, médiateurs, découvreurs de lecteurs, ils travaillent au quotidien à élargir l'accès au livre, notamment auprès des jeunes, et à maintenir des fonds exigeants, loin des seules logiques commerciales. Édition et liberté de publication Le secteur de l'édition a connu de gros bouleversements ces derniers temps avec le rachat du groupe Hachette par Vincent Bolloré, soit une cinquantaine de maisons d'édition, et le départ de la maison Grasset de plus de 200 auteurs qui a fait suite au licenciement de son directeur historique, Olivier  Nora. Pour Marie-Rose Guarnieri, « il s'est attaqué à la valeur de ce mystérieux lien qu'il y a entre un auteur, un éditeur et de la sécurité que doit être une maison d'édition, et surtout la liberté de publication et d'idées, la diversité littéraire qu'il doit y avoir dans une maison d'édition ». À lire aussiCrise dans l'édition française : le président Macron veut défendre le «pluralisme éditorial» Et l'expression du jour dans La puce à l'oreille, une chronique de Lucie Bouteloup : « montrer patte blanche ». Explication de Benjamin Rouxel, lexicographe aux éditions du Robert.  Musique : « Ce que tu veux » de Creol et Eboloko, un duo 100% gabonais !

C'est le moment ou jamais de pousser la porte et d'aller chez votre libraire… Deux dates importantes : 23 avril, la Journée mondiale du livre et du droit d'auteur, et samedi 25 avril, la Fête de la librairie indépendante, initiée voilà presque 30 ans par Marie-Rose Guarnieri. Invitées :  Marie-Rose Guarnieri, libraire française, dirige la Librairie des Abbesses à Paris, créatrice du Prix Wepler et de la Fête de la librairie indépendante Audrey Neveu, gérante de la librairie Les 2 GeorgeS à Bondy et à Bobigny, en région parisienne. 420 millions de livres sont vendus chaque année, près d'un livre sur deux est acheté en librairie indépendante  À l'origine de la Fête de la librairie indépendante, la Sant Jordi, une fête catalane. Initiée il y a près de trente ans par Marie‑Rose Guarnieri, libraire à Montmartre, cette journée s'enracine dans une histoire de résistance. Sous le franquisme, le 23 avril était la seule journée durant laquelle écrivains, intellectuels et opposants au régime pouvaient manifester dans les rues, livres et roses à la main, pour réclamer le retour à la démocratie et la liberté de publication. En France, la Sant Jordi coïncide avec la Journée mondiale du livre et du droit d'auteur. Elle rappelle le rôle fondamental des libraires : ceux qui choisissent les livres, rémunèrent les auteurs, défendent la pluralité des voix et rendent visible une profession essentielle à la vie démocratique. Aujourd'hui, sur les 3 000 librairies indépendantes en France, plus de 700 participent à cette fête en France, en Belgique et en Suisse francophones, offrant à chaque lecteur un livre et une rose. Et plus de 80 pays participent à cette journée. Libraires indépendants : un métier fragile Marie‑Rose Guarnieri et Audrey Neveu dressent un portrait sensible du métier de libraire aujourd'hui. Qu'il s'exerce à Paris ou en province, ce métier est marqué par une grande fragilité économique, mais porté par une conviction forte. Conseillers, médiateurs, découvreurs de lecteurs, ils travaillent au quotidien à élargir l'accès au livre, notamment auprès des jeunes, et à maintenir des fonds exigeants, loin des seules logiques commerciales. Édition et liberté de publication Le secteur de l'édition a connu de gros bouleversements ces derniers temps avec le rachat du groupe Hachette par Vincent Bolloré, soit une cinquantaine de maisons d'édition, et le départ de la maison Grasset de plus de 200 auteurs qui a fait suite au licenciement de son directeur historique, Olivier  Nora. Pour Marie-Rose Guarnieri, « il s'est attaqué à la valeur de ce mystérieux lien qu'il y a entre un auteur, un éditeur et de la sécurité que doit être une maison d'édition, et surtout la liberté de publication et d'idées, la diversité littéraire qu'il doit y avoir dans une maison d'édition ». À lire aussiCrise dans l'édition française : le président Macron veut défendre le «pluralisme éditorial» Et l'expression du jour dans La puce à l'oreille, une chronique de Lucie Bouteloup : « montrer patte blanche ». Explication de Benjamin Rouxel, lexicographe aux éditions du Robert.  Musique : « Ce que tu veux » de Creol et Eboloko, un duo 100% gabonais !

L'émission 28 minutes du 22/04/2026 Affaire des éditions Grasset : qui contrôle vraiment les livres en France ? Le mardi 14 avril, Olivier Nora, emblématique PDG des éditions Grasset (groupe Hachette) depuis plus de deux décennies, est licencié. Dénonçant la mainmise éditoriale de Vincent Bolloré et une atteinte grave à l'indépendance éditoriale et à la liberté de création, plus de 220 auteurs ont annoncé leur départ de la maison d'édition. En France, les milliardaires Vincent Bolloré, avec le groupe Hachette, et David Krestinsky, groupe Editis, contrôlent plus de 50 % du marché. Élisabeth Philippe, cheffe adjointe du service culture du “Nouvel Obs”, publie ce 23 avril une enquête sur l'affaire Grasset. Elle est notre invitée ce soir. Censure, crise économique, guerre en Ukraine : le système Poutine peut-il vaciller ? “Vladimir, le peuple a peur de vous” : ce message diffusé sur Instagram par l'influenceuse russe Victoria Bonya, exilée à Monaco, a été vu des millions de fois. Depuis plusieurs semaines, les autorités russes exercent un contrôle général d'internet en Russie entre suspensions de réseau mobile et blocages de messageries. Dans le même temps, la popularité de Vladimir Poutine est au plus bas depuis 2022 et l'économie russe s'essouffle. Le PIB a reculé de 1,8 % en janvier et février, d'après le président russe, qui reconnaît pour la première fois que l'économie est dans le rouge. Sur le plan militaire, l'armée russe n'a gagné aucun territoire en mars en Ukraine, une première depuis 2023. On en débat avec Clémentine Fauconnier, maîtresse de conférences en science politique, spécialiste de la politique russe, Vera Grantseva, politologue, spécialiste de la Russie et Jean de Gliniasty, directeur de recherche à l'Iris et ancien ambassadeur de France en Russie. Théophile Cossa explique pourquoi les allergies au pollen sont de plus en plus violentes chaque année. Marie Bonnisseau raconte l'histoire incroyable d'un Allemand qui a acheté un coffre-fort d'occasion pour 15 euros, et y a découvert un lingot d'or estimé à 33 000 euros. 28 minutes est le magazine d'actualité d'ARTE, présenté par Élisabeth Quin du lundi au jeudi à 20h05. Renaud Dély est aux commandes de l'émission le vendredi et le samedi. Ce podcast est coproduit par KM et ARTE Radio. Enregistrement 22 mai 2026 Présentation Renaud Dély Production KM, ARTE Radio

The preparedness of Western armed forces for conflict is something that has featured prominently in many defence reviews. Christian Brose, Anduril's President & Chief Strategy Officer, describes how governments can build effective relationships with innovative, disruptive small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the defence industrial ecosystem, and how they can develop new strategies for achieving greater military capability to meet preparedness requirements. It is clear there is no one-size-fits-all approach; Christian argues that today, government and the defence industry need to follow traditional approaches where that makes sense, and more modern, adaptive approaches for equipment that is designed to be scaled and mass produced without imposing huge investment and talent costs on suppliers. Christian is the President and Chief Strategy Officer at Anduril Industries, prior to which he was Staff Director of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Further Reading Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare, Hachette, 2020. Anduril Industries, Rebuild the Arsenal, PT-00/05, accessible at https://www.anduril.com/rebuild-the-arsenal. Sidharth Kaushal and Paul O'Neill eds., Whitehall Paper 102, The Role of Dissimilar Rearmament, RUSI, 2025.

Today's story: Hachette, a major book publisher, pulled a horror novel from bookstore shelves after online critics found the text was full of the telltale signs of artificial intelligence. The author, Mia Ballard, says that a freelance editor may have used ChatGPT, but that the story was her own work. The case raises questions in the literary community about how much artificial intelligence can be used in creating a work of fiction. Transcript & Exercises: https://plainenglish.com/857Get the full story and learning resources: https://plainenglish.com/857--Plain English helps you improve your English:Learn about the world and improve your EnglishClear, natural English at a speed you can understandNew stories every weekLearn even more at PlainEnglish.comMentioned in this episode:Hard words? No problemNever be confused by difficult words in Plain English again! See translations of the hardest words and phrases from English to your language. Each episode transcript includes built-in translations into Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Polish, and Turkish. Sign up for a free 14-day trial at PlainEnglish.com

“These technologies are morally agnostic. They could be the best things ever and the worst things ever, and the determinant is us.” — Jamie Metzl Two summers ago, Jamie Metzl gave a talk on AI and spirituality at the Chautauqua Institution in Upstate New York. That same spot where Salman Rushdie was stabbed on stage a couple of years earlier. Rather than an assassination attempt, Metzl's talk triggered The AI Ten Commandments: A New Moral Code for Humanity — a book co-authored with GPT-5. Metzl humbly claims that AI enabled him to incorporate other non-Christian traditions in a new moral code for humanity. Some might think, however, that this type of ChatGPT-5 co-production reflects a new moral crisis for humanity. The victory of AI slop. Fast information. High on intellectual calories, low on everything else. Five Takeaways •       Co-Authoring with GPT-5: Five to six thousand back-and-forth exchanges over the course of writing the book. Metzl is a novelist who cares deeply about language and the provenance of ideas — he is explicit that this is not the kind of AI fraud that got Mia Ballard's book pulled from Hachette. The analogy he reaches for: Refik Anadol at MoMA, whose installation uses the museum's entire digital collection not to reproduce the images but to create something new from them. The collaboration with AI isn't about outsourcing the thinking. It's about gaining a vantage point that no individual human could have — the same way we collaborate with machines in biology to see the genome, which no one could simply observe by looking at another person. •       Moses's Problem: The biblical 10 commandments, examined closely, don't hold up. The first two are preamble. “Thou shalt not kill” — Moses received it on Sinai and then came down and murdered 3,000 people at God's instruction. The commandments were written by people with no awareness of the moral traditions of the Americas, Asia, or Africa. Metzl's counterproposal uses AI to look at all of human recorded history simultaneously — every tradition, every culture, every spiritual framework — and decipher what they share. The analogy: the Artemis II astronauts seeing Earth holistically from space, rather than one community at a time. •       The Ten Commandments, Listed: (1) Treat every being with compassion and dignity. (2) Do no harm; actively protect the vulnerable. (3) Speak and act truthfully, with integrity and humility. (4) Share generously, especially with those in need. (5) Seek to understand others before judging them. (6) Resolve conflict with fairness, forgiveness, and the intent to heal. (7) Live in harmony with nature and all forms of life. (8) Value wisdom over dominance; cultivate inner growth. (9) Honour the freedom and uniqueness of others. (10) Remember the sacredness of life; live with awe, gratitude, and love. Metzl's favourite is number ten. Andrew's objection: you don't need GPT-5 to come up with any of these. You could get most of them from a local Buddhist centre. •       Humanistic Slop vs. Selfish Survivalism: Andrew's repeated challenge: these principles are so unobjectionable that they amount to nothing — a kind of AI-laundered platitude. Metzl half-concedes, but argues that the absence of articulated universal norms is itself a political danger. Kant described the League of Peace in 1795. It took a hundred and fifty years and two world wars before the UN Charter was signed in 1945. The UN has now largely failed. If we don't articulate what we're trying to achieve, it becomes even harder to get there. Globalism, in Metzl's framing, isn't idealism. It's survivalism. Our fates are intertwined whether we recognise it or not. •       The Eleventh Commandment: World-changing technologies must be governed responsibly, including through national regulation and accountability frameworks. The hope that AI CEOs will voluntarily do the right thing — even the best of them, even Dario, even Demis — is a terrible strategy. It will fail, because some companies will always seek opportunity. The nuclear analogy: at the dawn of the nuclear age, nobody said “alright, just do whatever you want and good luck.” These are civilizational transformations. They require governance. These technologies are morally agnostic. They could be the best things ever and the worst things ever. The determinant is us. About the Guest Jamie Metzl is a technology futurist, geopolitics expert, sci-fi novelist, and founder and chair of OneShared.World. He is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and a Singularity University expert. He is the author of The AI Ten Commandments: A New Moral Code for Humanity (co-authored with GPT-5, April 21, 2026), Superconvergence, and Hacking Darwin. References: •       The AI Ten Commandments: A New Moral Code for Humanity by Jamie Metzl and GPT-5 (April 21, 2026). •       OneShared.World — Metzl's global social movement and Declaration of Interdependence. •       Episode 2877: Keith Teare on AI Is Not Dangerous — the Silicon Valley seminary argument, one episode prior. •       Episode 2878: Victoria Hetherington on The Friend Machine — the AI intimacy investigation that immediately precedes this show. About Keen On America Nobody asks more awkward questions than the Anglo-American writer and filmmaker Andrew Keen. In Keen On America, Andrew brings his pointed Transatlantic wit to making sense of the United States — hosting daily interviews about the history and future of this now venerable Republic. With nearly 2,900 episodes since the show launched on TechCrunch in 2010, Keen On America is the most prolific intellectual interview show in the history of podcasting. WebsiteSubstackYouTubeApple PodcastsSpotify Chapters: (00:31) - Why GPT-5 and not Claude? The co-author question (02:58) - Is this a joke? The Chautauqua origin story (05:09) - The Refik Anadol distinction: collaboration vs. fraud (07:57) - From the genome to the moral code: why collaborate with AI (08:54) - What is Chautauqua? The six-thousand-person standing ovation (09:53) - Moses's problem: the biblical 10 commandments examined (12:48) - Sam Altman and the Ronan Farrow piece (14:00) - Advanced praise from the Vatican and a leading reform rabbi

Le livre en fête... mais le monde de l'édition sous tension. Pendant trois jours, du 17 au 19 avril, le Festival du Livre de Paris ouvre ses portes sous la verrière du Grand Palais à quelques 450 exposants, plus de 1 200 auteurs et autrices et des dizaines de milliers de passionnés de littérature, mais l'enthousiasme est assombri par une crise sans précédent : l'éviction brutale d'Olivier Nora, patron historique de Grasset, par le propriétaire du groupe Hachette, Vincent Bolloré. Une décision qui a fait l'effet d'un séisme et ravivé une inquiétude profonde sur l'indépendance éditoriale en France. À lire aussiFrance: plus d'une centaine d'écrivains annoncent quitter la maison d'édition Grasset en ciblant Vincent Bolloré

durée : 00:07:04 - Les interviews d'Inter - par : Mathilde Munos - Claude Askolovitch, journaliste et écrivain, annonce, avec une centaine d'autres auteurs, quitter Grasset. Un mouvement collectif en réaction au limogeage du PDG de la maison d'édition Olivier Nora par le propriétaire du groupe Hachette, Vincent Bolloré. Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

Le renvoi d'Olivier Nora de Grasset provoque un tsunami de débats et de réactions. Avec cette éviction brutale du directeur de la maison d'édition par le propriétaire du groupe Hachette, Vincent Bolloré, on assiste à un nouvel épisode de la bataille pour l'hégémonie culturelle d'une ligne éditoriale très ancrée à la droite de la droite. Pour Ruth Elkrief, il est extraordinaire de savoir que dans cette maison coexistaient des auteurs qui n'étaient pas d'accord sur grand-chose. Cinq poids lourds électriques font du Paris-Berlin. Ces véhicules de 40 tonnes, 100% électriques, démontrent que le transport routier, y compris le transport routier international, est éligible à l'électrique. Pour Pascal Perri, à partir de 2030, la tendance va se renforcer et toutes les entreprises qui vont investir sur des poids lourds électriques en retireront un bénéfice de l'ordre de 10 à 15% en termes d'exploitation. Depuis avril 2023, il y a une guerre civile qui a fait au moins 150 000 morts au Soudan. Au total, ce sont 19 millions de déplacés et de réfugiés. Vingt-cinq millions de personnes sur cinquante millions d'habitants sont en situation d'insécurité alimentaire grave. C'est au Soudan que se déroule en ce moment même la pire crise alimentaire du monde, affirme l'ONU. Selon Abnousse Shalmani, la même gauche qui défile pour Gaza est silencieuse sur les Soudanais qui meurent par dizaines de milliers. Il n'y a que quand il y a Israël dans l'affaire qu'il y a une mobilisation, poursuit-elle. Du lundi au vendredi, à partir de 18h, David Pujadas apporte toute son expertise pour analyser l'actualité du jour avec pédagogie.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Imagine you're in a bookstore and you wander over to the fiction section. There, you find two shelves: one for human-written novels… and one for novels written by AI.That future may not be as far off as you think. Roughly 4 million books were published in the U.S. in 2025. That's a more than a 32 percent increase from 2024, according to the trade magazine Publisher's Weekly.It's unclear how many of those books were written by AI, in part because software used to detect it can be ineffective. And the literary waters were made even murkier by the fact that at least 3 million of those 4 million books were self-published. That makes it even more difficult to know if they were written by human hands (er, minds).That's not to say the self-published portion of the industry is the only part where this tech is showing up. Hachette, one the largest publishers in the U.S., canceled one of its novels, “SHY GIRL,” after allegations that its author used AI to write it.All this is marking a turning point for the publishing industry. How can authors ethically use this technology? And do readers really need new AI-authored books in a market already saturated with options?Find more of our programs online. Listen to 1A sponsor-free by signing up for 1A+ at plus.npr.org/the1a.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

On the tabletop we're building up the walls with dexterity and memory game Castel Boom from Kiwizou by way of Hachette, and building up a case with MicroMacro Kids: Crazy City Park from Hard Boiled Games, also via Hachette. Away from the board games and into the realm of RPGs, we're meeting up online with strangers and playing roleplaying game oneshots with StartPlaying (and the brilliant La Lionne Cosplay). After that it's off to Germany - via Denmark - and building LEGO's spin on Neuschwanstein Castle, plus we relax with a new season of a classic TV show; yep, we're getting back into Scrubs. All that, and lawns, on Ep245. 00:00 - Two green bins. 06:57 - Castel Boom 19:54 - A naughty trip to the petrol station 23:04 - MicroMacro Kids: Crazy City Park 35:42 - “And many more” 37:35 - LEGO's Neuschwanstein Castle 42:09 - StartPlaying with Anya (aka La Lionne Cosplay) 49:23 - Scrubs On this episode were Dan (@ThisDanFrost), Kris (@DigitalStrider), and Sam (@MrSamTurner). Our Spotify Playlist brings together lots of great thematic music inspired by the stuff we talk about, our Steam Curator page collects every video game we've ever reviewed available on the platform, and our BoardGameGeek page does the same for every boardgame. And if you'd like to see what we're up to between podcasts, your best bet is our Instagram page. Links to where you can find us - StayingInPodcast.com Note: sometimes we'll have been sent a review copy of the thing we're talking about on the podcast. It doesn't skew how we think about that thing, and we don't receive compensation for anything we discuss, but we thought you might like to know this is the case.

Novelist Emma Pei Yin ran away from Hong Kong as a teenager to start fresh in Australia. But she found herself repeatedly drawn back home whenever she put pen to paper.Emma grew up in England and Hong Kong. But her life in Hong Kong wasn't so much about the neon skyscrapers as it was about her family's ancestral village, tucked away in the New Territories.Emma spent her school holidays there with her grandparents, learning how to take care of the family cemetery and joining in Chinese Festivals.Sometimes her grandfather would share his memories of the Second World War, when the Japanese military invaded and occupied Hong Kong.As Emma became into a teenager, her relationship with her parents deteriorated. She eventually decided to leave them and Hong Kong, coming to Australia to make a life for herself as a writer.But whenever she wrote, Emma found herself drawn back to Hong Kong; to the hundreds of islands, the fishing villages on stilts, the mountains, woodlands and beaches – all the things that tourists who think of Hong Kong as a city of neon lights and free Wi-fi don't know about.This episode of Conversations was first broadcast last year.Content warning: This episode of Conversations contains discussion about sexual assault.Further informationWhen Sleeping Women Wake is published by Hachette.Help and support is always available. You can call Lifeline 24 hours a day on 13 11 14.This episode of Conversations was produced by Meggie Morris and first broadcast in 2025, the executive producer is Nicola Harrison.It explores family dynamics, multiculturalism, China, Hong Kong, modern history, writing, books, literature, historical fiction, Japanese occupation, World War 2, assault, victim-blaming, abortion, filmmaking, black sheep, family honour, London, forgiveness.

When it comes to thinking about the future of food, is it possible to re-imagine our individual and collective appetites around what we want it to be? Taste is subjective, sure, but it's also deeply embedded in the land, histories, politics, and sociocultural dynamics we navigate throughout our lives. And as my guest this week, Alicia Kennedy, writes, our tastes are also shaped by how we value (or don't value) ingredients and their own histories.  Alicia is a writer from Long Island. She is the author of No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating, and On Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites, which is out officially as of today through Hachette. Her newsletter, From the Desk, covers food, culture, politics, and media, and she is launching Tomato Tomato, a literary journal of food writing, in 2026.  Alicia is back on the show today to speak about On Eating, exploring the process of weaving the personal and cultural histories of ingredients through her chapters, the interrogation of early appetites and their influence on her food writing, the dynamics of feminine appetites in food media, and the importance of properly considering the labour of growing and producing food as a way to unpack Western appetites. Resources:  Book: On Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites From the Desk newsletter Website Tomato Tomato magazine  Instagram: @aliciadkennedy

L'écrivain de 81 ans « a été détenu pendant un an en Algérie », rappelle Le Parisien Dimanche. Il a été libéré en novembre dernier (après une forte mobilisation, diplomatique notamment), et a annoncé hier qu'il entendait « attaquer en justice » le président algérien. Pour cela, dit-il, « il va saisir la justice internationale ». Boualem Sansal dont l'attitude suscite bien des interrogations depuis quelques semaines. Depuis, notamment, qu'il a quitté sa maison d'édition historique Gallimard, pour rejoindre Grasset, « propriété du groupe Hachette, contrôlé par le milliardaire conservateur Vincent Bolloré », précise Le Parisien Dimanche. Ce que le Nouvel Obs, de son côté, appelle un « transfert sous influence ». Sous-entendu, sous l'influence d'Arnaud Benedetti, le fondateur de son comité de soutien. « Un homme de droite », nous dit le Nouvel Obs, « habitué des plateaux télé, notamment CNews et Europe 1, les antennes de la Galaxie Bolloré… ».  Et c'est à la Une d'une autre propriété de Vincent Bolloré, Le Journal du Dimanche, que s'affiche aujourd'hui Boualem Sansal, en compagnie de Philippe de Villiers, figure ultra-conservatrice, également habitué de CNews. Une photo accompagnée de ce texte : « L'académicien franco-algérien et le fondateur du Puy du Fou, préoccupés par la disparition programmée du peuple français, appellent refranciser la nation en puisant dans son socle historique, philosophique et culturel pour qu'elle retrouve son éclat d'antan ». Dans le Nouvel Obs, l'un des proches de Boualem Sansal se désole que « cet écrivain qui s'est toujours revendiqué "au-dessus des partis politiques" soit devenu "la mascotte de l'extrême droite" ».  Course contre la mort Éclipsée par le conflit au Moyen-Orient, la guerre n'en continue pas moins en Ukraine, où les journalistes sont particulièrement exposés. Exposés comme le sont bien sûr tous les civils, « le long de la ligne de front, raconte l'Express, des milliers de drones, souvent produits pour quelques centaines de dollars, attaquent tout ce qui bouge, y compris les journalistes ». Plusieurs d'entre eux l'ont payé de leur vie. Leur sécurité est donc un enjeu vital. C'est ainsi que la correspondante de L'Express à Kiev, Clara Marchaud, a suivi un stage organisé par une ONG ukrainienne « pour aider les reporters à affronter les attaques aériennes incessantes de la Russie ». « La première journée, explique-t-elle, porte sur les gestes de secours : stopper une hémorragie massive en moins de trois minutes, évacuer un blessé sur des centaines de mètres dans la forêt, en portant un gilet pare-balles de 15 kilos sur le dos ». Le deuxième jour du stage est consacré aux drones. Un instructeur détaille leurs particularités techniques et explique : « on vit avec l'idée que quelque chose peut nous tomber dessus à tout moment .» Dans ce qu'on appelle la « kill zone », c'est-à-dire « la ligne de front longue de 20 à 25 kilomètres », explique la journaliste de l'Express, « dès qu'un drone se fait entendre, il ne reste qu'une dizaine de secondes pour réagir. Se figer pour scruter le ciel est l'erreur fatale à ne pas commettre… Il faut se précipiter vers un abri solide, ou à défaut un fossé. Courir en zigzag, changer de direction tous les sept à dix mètres ». Une véritable course contre la mort…  « Improbable image pieuse » Le pape Léon XIV est attendu demain, lundi, en Algérie. Et c'est d'ailleurs, souligne La Tribune Dimanche, « le premier voyage d'un pape en Algérie ». L'occasion pour L'Express de mesurer l'aura de Léon XIV et de dessiner les contours de sa relation avec… Donald Trump.  « Tous deux sont américains, mais c'est là leur seul point commun », explique L'Express. Il faut dire que, côté religion, un fossé sépare les deux hommes.  L'hebdomadaire rappelle qu'au début de la guerre contre l'Iran, Trump s'est fait « filmer dans le bureau Ovale, entouré de pasteurs évangéliques priant pour lui donner la force de diriger la nation et pour la protection des troupes américaines. « Une improbable image pieuse », nous dit L'Express, à laquelle le pape a répondu à sa façon lors de la messe des Rameaux, citant le prophète Isaïe : « Même si vous faites beaucoup de prières, je n'écouterai pas. Vos mains sont pleines de sang ».  Interdiction restée lettre morte Enfin, retour sur une décision qui a fait couler beaucoup d'encre ces derniers mois : l'interdiction des réseaux sociaux aux moins de 16 ans en Australie. L'Australie qui n'était pas peu fière, il y a quatre mois, de mettre en place cette interdiction, mais qui doit reconnaître aujourd'hui que « ça ne fonctionne pas », comme nous l'explique Courrier International. En effet, la Commission australienne pour la sécurité en ligne, a découvert que « plus des deux tiers des adolescents étaient toujours sur les plateformes concernées par l'interdiction (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok et YouTube) ». Tout simplement, semble-t-il, parce que « les plateformes concernées n'ont pas demandé aux adolescents de se soumettre à une vérification d'âge ». Alors que d'autres « autorisent les utilisateurs à essayer plusieurs fois les contrôles de vérification de l'âge, jusqu'à ce qu'ils passent outre ». Il était peut-être un peu naïf d'espérer mettre au pas, aussi vite, les géants de la Tech... 

Anna and Annie discuss the news that Hachette has pulled the book SHY GIRL by Mia Ballard from publication after concerns it was written by AI.   Our book of the week is A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF by Megha Majumdar.  This follow-up to her novel A Burning is set in near-future, dystopian Kolkata.  A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF is full of ethical dilemmas, flawed characters and memorable food scenes - a good book club pick. It has been long listed for the 2026 Women's Prize for Fiction.     Read-alikes: THE DIRECTOR by Daniel Kehlmann translated by Ross Benjamin (iykyk) LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND by Rumaan Alam   Coming up: HEART THE LOVER by Lily King   Follow us! Follow us! Email: Booksonthegopodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @abailliekaras and @mr_annie Substack: Books On The Go Credits Artwork: Sascha Wilkosz

Die Themen: Rentner schießt Flugobjekt ab; Trump setzt Europa neues Hormus-Ultimatum; Merz erteilt Sofort-Hilfen eine Absage; Rechtsextremistin Liebich in Tschechien festgenommen; Heidenreich fordert Absetzung von Scheck; Hachette nimmt Horrorroman „Shy Girl“ wegen Verdachts auf KI-Nutzung vom Markt. Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/ApokalypseundFilterkaffee Du möchtest Werbung in diesem Podcast schalten? Dann erfahre hier mehr über die Werbemöglichkeiten bei Seven.One Audio: https://www.seven.one/portfolio/sevenone-audio

You've probably heard about author Mia Ballard. Her debut novel "Shy Girl" has been at the center of a controversy about whether she used AI to help write it. After a New York Times article, her publisher dropped her book. She's since deleted most of her social accounts and gone dark. I talked about this story on Stuff Mom Never Told You just last week, but I now realize that I only had half the story. Drey, of the Drey Dossier, has been trying to fill in that other half. It's about a Black woman author, a major publisher, a powerful newspaper, and an AI detection company whose business model depends on all of us believing that their tool is the final word on what counts as human. This story is much bigger than whether one writer did or didn't use AI. It's about the question of who gets to set the standard in AI and creative work? And more importantly — who gets protected, and who gets sacrificed to it? Subscribe to Drey's excellent substack for sharp reporting and open source investigative journalism into tech and power: https://thedreydossier.substack.com Read / Watch Drey’s reporting on Shy Girl: https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/the-shy-girl-ai-scandal-is-way-worse Follow Drey on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok: @thedreydossier Read more about the limitations of AI-detection software, and why many of the country's most respected universities have banned it. https://timrequarth.substack.com/p/why-you-shouldnt-trust-ai-detector Read Thad’s blog post called Shy Girl: The Background to the New York Times Story: https://thefutureofpublishing.com/2026/03/shy-girl-the-background-to-the-new-york-times-story/ Bridget’s SMNTY ep about ShyGirl: What the Shy Girl Conversation Says About AI and Art: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-mom-never-told-you-21123631/episode/what-the-shy-girl-conversation-says-about-ai-and-art-328745937 Let us know what you think by emailing hello@tangoti.com or leaving a comment on Spotify. Follow Bridget and TANGOTI on social media! || instagram.com/bridgetmarieindc/ || tiktok.com/@bridgetmarieindc || youtube.com/@ThereAreNoGirlsOnTheInternet || bsky.app/profile/tangoti.bsky.social See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The series on the houses wouldn't have felt complete without one last fairytale. In this, the 40th and last episode of the series, we explore the German tale of Dornröschen, which loosely translates to 'the little rose inside the thorns'. It begins with a talking frog who crawls out of the water to deliver a prophecy to the bathing queen. And it takes us into those places in ourselves that feel dormant. We feel that these parts have such great potential in our lives, but they remain fast asleep. Until...Well, that's the thing. The story takes us into the element of timing, of transits, of progressions, of gestation and of waiting until that which slumbers is ready to arouse. I'm joined in a very synchronous way by Milena Kadziela, a fellow astrologer and psychotherapist. She sends a transmission from London, in the middle of the night, on the Libra Full Moon. The moon was at 12°, which is the 13th degree.Milena, a listener to the show, felt that the one element that was missing in the series was that of the intercepted house. It happens that she uses this very story, Briar Rose, to speak to those hard to access parts of the chart. And so, she joined us for a late cameo in the episode to drop her night wisdom on us all. If you'd like to find out more about Milena's work you can find her here. You can read the story itself here.The image for the podcast is again from Artist and Patron, Lucy Dodd. Her work is also featured on episode 124 with Melanie Reinhart. With an overlaid princess from a 1981 edition of La Belle Au Bois Dormant & Autres Contes Merveilleux (Sleeping Beauty & Other Wonderful Tales), published by Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri and Hachette.Join the Newsletter!Podcast Musician: Marlia CoeurPlease consider becoming a Patron to support the show!Go to OnTheSoulsTerms.com for more.

What happens when readers suspect a published book is AI slop? What's the latest in the fallout from the cancellation of the US reality TV show, The Bachelorette? And what has Peter Mandelson got in common with Taylor Frankie Paul, the celebrity at the centre of the scandal? Publishing is finally fighting back as Hachette has pulped thousands of copies of a new book that readers are claiming is penned by ChatGPT. Could this be the same future for Reform's Matt Goodwin - as it's also littered with AI Hallucinations? Richard and Marina also discuss the messy downfall of Taylor Frankie Paul, the Mormon TikTok star that has been dogged by domestic violence allegations. We have the full breakdown. The Rest is Entertainment is brought to you by Octopus Energy, Britain's most awarded energy supplier. Is your door in the draw? Sign up at www.postcodelottery.co.uk People's Postcode Lottery manage lotteries on behalf of good causes, 18 plus, conditions apply, play responsibly, not available in Northern Ireland. Join The Rest Is Entertainment Club: Unlock the full experience of the show – with exclusive bonus content, ad-free listening, early access to Q&A episodes, access to our newsletter archive, discounted book prices with our partners at Coles Books, early ticket access to live events, and access to our chat community. Sign up directly at therestisentertainment.com For more Goalhanger Podcasts, head to www.goalhanger.com Video Editor: Adam Thornton & Charlie Rodwell Assistant Producer: Imee Marriott Senior Producer: Joey McCarthy Social Producer: Bex Tyrrell Exec Producer: Neil Fearn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Watch as a full video episode on YouTubeThis week, we lead with the scandal that has the industry in a frenzy, with Hachette pulling the release of Mia Ballard's horror novel Shy Girl after viral claims that the prose was generated by AI. We discuss the YouTube video with over a million views that started the fire, the author's defense involving an "acquaintance," and what this means for the future of "human" storytelling.Staying on AI (when don't we talk about AI?), we discuss the UK government's decision to axe plans for a broad AI copyright exception, and ask if this is a victory for authors. Plus, we chat about the announcement that NielsenIQ and TikTok are launching a monthly Top 20 chart in the UK that combines real sales data with social media engagement.00:00 Intro01:24 Victory for Authors - UK Scraps AI Exception10:36 Not Shy of Shortcuts - Hachette Ditches AI Novel22:46 Tok of the Pops - Official UK Chart launched30:06 Off Script: Stranger Than Fiction36:42 Final Chapter - Pitt-Perfect DramaLinks:Axed AI Copyright Exemption Welcomed By Book TradeHachette Horror Novel Shy Girl SuspendedOfficial BookTok Chart Set to Launch in the UKAdventures in Publishing-land is brought to you by STET Podcasts - the one stop shop for all your writing podcast needs, featuring Page One - The Writer's Podcast, The Conversation with Nadine Matheson and more!Follow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello EICorgis! Happy Friday!This week we kick off by discussing a feel-good story involving seven courageous canines who went missing in China before returning home as a pack- led by a bossy little corgi called Da Pang (or Big Fatty).Then we get a first person report of Lily Allen's tour from Oenone. O is a huge fan, but does she think that the critics are right in calling Lily's 45 minutes of stage time a little... underwhelming?Then we're reviewing the show everyone was loving to hate (even before the first episode had aired)- SNL UK. Did we like it? Will we watch again? And do we think this could end up as enormous as the American OG?Up next, more Chappell Roan drama after she was slammed by former Chelsea footballer Jorginho. He claimed that she sent her security guard to scold his wife and 11 year old stepdaughter for bothering the singer at a hotel breakfast. Chappell (who has been banned from an upcoming festival in Rio de Janiero because of this drama) denies that this security guard was hers and says she never saw a mother or a child while having her breakfast. What do we make of it, why is Chappell such a target for these stories, and how the HELL is Jude Law involved?Finally: some literary drama after horror novelist Mia Ballard had her book Shy Girl pulled from shelves and cancelled after Hachette received claims it had been written with the help of AI. Mia denies these allegations and claims a third party editor was to blame. We discuss the book, the allegations and what it means for publishing that a partly AI book could potentially make it all the way to shelves before being detected.This week Oenone has been loving the group of seven dogs who travelled 17km home, Ruchira has been loving The L Word and Beth has been loving Ready or Not 2.Thank you SO much for listening and Cue Podcasts for the edit! You can find us on IG & TikTok @ everythingiscontentpod. See you on Weds- O, R, B xLinks:The Guardian - Lily Allen Revew Deadline - Saturday Night Live UK: What the critics are sayingThe Guardian - Chappell Roan responds to criticism YouTube - i'm pretty sure this book is ai slop | frankie's shelfBBC - Publisher cancels horror novel's release over AI claims Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last week, book publisher Hachette canceled the forthcoming U.S. publication of the horror novel “Shy Girl” after it was flagged for sounding like the author used artificial intelligence. Andrea Bartz, novelist, author of The Last Ferry Out (Ballantine Books, 2025), discusses her latest guest op-ed in The New York Times on the controversy and what its like being a writer in the A.I. age. Photo: Barnes And Noble bookstore in Manhattan, New York, United States of America, on July 5th, 2024. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)    

Welcome to the 100th episode of The Culture We Deserve -- we really need to rethink our lives. The novel Shy Girl was recently pulled from publication after accusations that the author Mia Ballard used AI during its writing. As arts and culture is infiltrated with LLMs and slop, it doesn't say great things about the future that Hachette, one of the world's largest publishers, can't tell AI from human creativity. But with our standards so low anyway, does any of this matter? What will save us from the slop machines? Jessa and Nico discuss how we recreate taste and high standards, how the institutions of academia, publishing, and music have led us here, and whether it matters if your fantasies are written by human or machine.  Shownotes and references: http://theculturewedeserve.substack.com

This week, President Trump announced that the end of the Iran war may be in sight, while news outlets report the US is deploying thousands of troops to the Middle East. Then, Democratic governor of Kentucky Andy Beshear hints at a 2028 presidential campaign while making jabs at Vice President JD Vance. And, book publisher Hachette found that a book that they were about to publish was 78% AI-generated. Mike Cosper and Clarissa Moll discuss these headlines, and then Clarissa speaks with Ben Smith and Isaac Bledsoe from the American Institute for Boys and Men to discuss the trend that fewer men are going to college. What's to account for the shifting demographics in college attendance? REFERENCED IN THE EPISODE: Getting Men Re-engaged in College by Isaac Bledsoe and Ben Smith CT's education reporting GO DEEPER WITH THE BULLETIN: Join the conversation at our Substack. Find us on YouTube. Rate and review the show in your podcast app of choice. ABOUT THE GUESTS: Isaac Bledsoe is a senior research assistant at the American Institute of Boys and Men (AIBM) with an interest in transitions to adulthood, as well as fatherhood and family. Isaac was a research assistant at the Urban Institute, supporting a national survey of Early Head Start directors and a study to understand and improve parents' experiences with Georgia's child care subsidy program. Ben Smith is a researcher at AIBM with an interest in male labor market decisions and educational outcomes. He previously worked as a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation where he frequently focused on issues related to labor, employment, and financial decision making. His research provides an in-depth, ethnographic look at the ways some Americans manage day-to-day financial volatility. ABOUT THE BULLETIN: The Bulletin is a twice-weekly politics and current events show from Christianity Today moderated by Clarissa Moll, with senior commentary from Russell Moore (Christianity Today's editor-at-large and columnist) and Mike Cosper (senior contributor). Each week, the show explores current events and breaking news and shares a Christian perspective on issues that are shaping our world. We also offer special one-on-one conversations with writers, artists, and thought leaders whose impact on the world brings important significance to a Christian worldview, like Bono, Sharon McMahon, Harrison Scott Key, Frank Bruni, and more. The Bulletin listeners get 25% off CT. Go to https://orderct.com/THEBULLETIN to learn more. “The Bulletin” is a production of Christianity Today Producer: Clarissa Moll Associate Producer: Alexa Burke Editing and Mix: Kevin Morris Graphic Design: Rick Szuecs Music: Dan Phelps Executive Producer: Erik Petrik Senior Producer: Matt Stevens Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What does it take to write strong sentences? How do you keep writing when the world feels dark? How do you push past self-doubt, build a sustainable writing practice, and trust that your voice is enough? Anne Lamott and Neal Allen share decades of hard-won wisdom from their new book, Good Writing. In the intro, Hachette cancels allegedly AI-written book [The New Publishing Standard]; How Pangram works; Publishing industry insights from Macmillan's CEO [David Perell Podcast]; Photos from Notre Dame and Saint Chapelle; The Black Church; Bones of the Deep coming in April. Today's show is sponsored by ProWritingAid, writing and editing software that goes way beyond just grammar and typo checking. With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with writing software, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. Check it out for free or get 15% off the premium edition at www.ProWritingAid.com/joanna This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Neal Allen is a spiritual coach, former journalist, and author of non-fiction and flash fiction. Anne Lamott is the New York Times bestselling author of memoir, spiritual and creative non-fiction, and literary fiction, including Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life, which many authors, including me, count as one of the best books on writing out there. Neal and Anne are also married, and their first book together is Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. Show Notes Why strong verbs are rule number one How Anne and Neal's contrasting styles created a unique call-and-response writing guide Practical advice on finding and trusting your authentic voice across genres Why award-winning novelists typically write for only 90 minutes a day — and what that means for your writing practice How to keep writing during dark and discouraging times without giving up The uncomfortable truth about publication, longevity, and why nobody cares if you write You can find Neal at ShapesOfTruth.com and Anne on Substack. Transcript of the interview with Neal Allen and Anne Lamott Neal Allen is a spiritual coach, former journalist, and author of non-fiction and flash fiction. Anne Lamott is the New York Times bestselling author of memoir, spiritual and creative non-fiction, and literary fiction, including Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life, which many authors, including me, count as one of the best books on writing out there. Neal and Anne are also married, and their first book together is Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences Jo: Welcome to the show, Neal and Anne. Anne: Thank you so much, Jo. We're happy to be here. Neal: Hi, Jo. Jo: Let us get straight into the book with rule one, which is use strong verbs. How can we implement that practically in our manuscripts when most of us don't start with the verb? We're thinking of story or we're thinking of message? Neal: Throughout the book, it's pointed out that these are rules for second drafts, right? So you've put it down. You've already got your story down, you've already got your piece down—your email, your text, it doesn't matter what. Then you stop, you pause, you go back to the beginning and you go sentence by sentence and look at them. Anne: I'd like to add that there's a lot in the book, usually on my end of the conversation, that has to do with really using these rules anywhere and everywhere. Whether you're writing a memoir or a grant proposal, I believe these rules apply to getting everything written at any time, in any phase of the work because, from Bird by Bird, I'm all about taking short assignments and writing really godawful first drafts. What is fun about writing is to have spewed out something on the page and then to get to go back right then and just start cleaning it up a bit, straightening it out, probably inevitably shortening it. One place to start is to notice how weak our verbs are. If I say “Jo walked towards us across the lawn,” it doesn't give the reader very much information. But if I say “Jo lurched towards us across the lawn,” or “Jo raced towards us across the lawn,” then right away you've improved the sentence with really two or three quick thoughts about what you actually meant with that verb and a better one. So it really applies to every level and stage of writing, but Neal's right—this is really about going back over your work sentence by sentence and seeing if you can make it stronger and cleaner and clearer. The reason it's rule one is to write strong verbs. Neal: A nice thing about strong verbs is that they often preclude the need for an adjective or an adverb, right? If I say “I trudged,” it's shorter than saying “I walked slowly and depressed.” Jo: Absolutely, and how you answered that question is kind of how the book works, right? Because Neal does an outline of the rule, and then Anne comes in and comments. Maybe you could talk a bit about that process. You are both strong characters, obviously you've been writing a long time. Talk a bit about how you made the book and how that worked as a couple as well. Neal: I'd had these rules collected for a number of years and I had them on my website. When I met Anne, she liked them and would hand them out when she was doing writing sessions. I was intrigued at some point a few years ago and looked around to see whether there was a list like mine out there. I noticed that all the other lists I saw were much shorter. Hemingway had his four rules for rewriting. Elmore Leonard, his eight, which are wonderful. Margaret Atwood has 10. The longest I saw was Martin Amis had, depending on what year it was, 14, 15 or 16—he'd go back and forth with a couple of them. I had 30-some and I wondered, well, 30-some might be enough for a book. I didn't want to write a scolding book like on grammar. I didn't want it to be academic or written like “I'm the expert, I know.” I'll just let my mind range. I'll explain the rule and then let my mind go where it went. Which, by the way, is one of the rules—show then tell. Not “show, don't tell.” It's show, then tell. Let your mind riff after you've explained something to the reader or shown something to the reader. So I wrote the book. It was too short to be published, and I showed it to Anne and I asked her, “What do I do with this?” Anne: I said, “Hey, I know something about writing, Bub,” and I asked if I could contribute my thoughts and retorts and examples and prompts to each of his rules. We were just off and running because his stuff was so solid. Mine is more maybe welcoming and giving encouragement and hope to writers because writing's hard. It's still hard for me. This is my 21st book and I'm only a third of it. Writing's hard, and what we hope is that our conversation can help people understand: a) it's hard for everybody, and b) it'll work if you just keep your butt in the chair and do the best you can, and then go back one day at a time and try to make it a little bit better. Neal: It turned out to be pretty serendipitous because just naturally I'm more of an explainer and Annie is more driving toward catharsis. So the call and response is always: I set out the rule, I explain the rule, and Annie drives it toward catharsis and usefulness. Jo: In some chapters you do disagree in some form. How did that work in the process of writing? Anne: Usually I disagree because Neal might be using words that are too big, or it might be a little bit elitist, I would think. Or of course I would point out that he's completely overeducated, whereas I'm a dropout and so I have a much plainer, more welcoming version of the rules. All of the rules are so strong, but I would feel that the way he explained it was beyond me. So I would come in and try to explain what Neal had been explaining. It was actually really funny and fun. We do come from really different directions. Neal is an explainer. He's like an ATM of information, and I am the class den mother who brings in treats and party favours on everybody's birthday. My message is always: you can really, really do this, I promise, trust me. But you start where you are, you get your butt in the chair, and then Neal comes along and says what has worked for him. He was a journalist forever, so he writes in a very different way than I write. It just turned out that the two of us together kind of make a whole. People have asked us if there were a lot of conflicts or if we really objected to the other person's take. I can tell you, Jo, there wasn't a day when we had only conflict. We were just laughing and we were excited because one of us would remember a great example from literature. We came to believe that these two very distinct voices would form one voice of encouragement for any writer. Jo: That brings us to rule number eight, which is trust your voice. I feel like this is easier when you've been writing a while. We're told to find our voice, but I remember as an early writer when I read Bird by Bird and other books and I was like, “How on earth do I find my voice?” Maybe you could talk about this more for early stage writer. How do you find and trust that voice? Neal: Boy, that is a halt for almost all of us. This follows from any intellectual pursuit that requires lots of practice and repetitions. Malcolm Gladwell's great statement, or discovery, or restatement from somebody else who discovered it, that the human brain requires 10,000 hours of repetitions before something can be allowed to just flow without thought. Flow as if intuitive rather than thinking. I don't think that's any different in writing than it is in basketball or football or anything else—sports, creative pursuits, everyday pursuits. There's just a lot of repetitions required. Some people have the experience that I did, where you're just going along getting better and better, doing it over and over again, learning this, learning that, adding in this, adding in that, moving toward a goal of virtuosity or whatever. And all of a sudden, bang, one day, it all works and your voice emerges. Other people don't have that experience, don't have that one day that it happened or that feeling that it suddenly happened. For some people it takes less than 10,000 hours, but for most people it is a hell of a lot of repetitions. Anne: I think for me, the most important aspect to finding your own voice is noticing how desperately you don't think your voice is good enough and that you want to write like somebody else. I always mention that when I was coming up, at about 20, I wanted to sound like Isabel Allende because I loved her work so much. Or Ann Beattie, who was writing those wonderful short stories in the New Yorker. Or Salinger, who I'd started reading probably at 10 years old. I had to come to the understanding that I can't tell my stories and my truth and my version of life—which is really what writing is—in somebody else's voice. Unless it's a kind of advanced writing exercise to write in the voice of an alcoholic billionaire in Spain. For most of us, it's about finding out that our voice is what people want to hear. It's hard to believe, but it is absolutely true. If you have a story to tell me, Jo, I just want you to tell me your story. I don't want you to try to sound like Virginia Woolf or Margaret Drabble. I want you to be Jo. If it's the written version you're sending me, I can probably go through and help you maintain your voice while making the writing stronger by following certain really basic rules. But spiritually and psychologically, this is just about the most important rule of all because that's why we're here. That's why we are on this side of eternity—to discover who we are and why we're here. Part of that is discovering who, deep down, when all the layers are peeled away, we are, and then how to communicate that to a reader. Without trying to sound more impressive or more brilliant or more ironic than we actually are, our voice is good enough. It's hard to believe. Our voice is what we want you to tell us your stories in. Neal: I distinctly remember the day I found my voice, for odd reasons. I just can remember it, and the first thing I did when this story felt like it had written itself to me was look at it and go, “Crap. That doesn't sound like Faulkner.” Jo: It sounded like you. Anne: Or bad Faulkner. Jo: Do you think we have to find our voice maybe multiple times, depending on genre? For example, I recognised that feeling with one of my novels. It was novel number five. I was like, “Oh, that's my voice.” But then it took me a lot longer to find that in memoir because, well, I think memoir is super hard. Do you think we have to go through these 10,000 hours in different genres? Neal: Not for me. I don't think any differently about how I'm entering into a business letter, a text, a novel, a self-help book, or any of the things that I do. I feel like I just have to turn this switch and let it go, and I can trust myself. So that's interesting. I can imagine you could develop a second voice. I haven't ever needed to. Anne: I would agree that I write my novels and my nonfiction really from a kind of central bus station deep inside of me. One of our rules is write the hard things—write about life and death and loss and grief and relationships and getting old and being here during these incredibly cold, dark times. Because the reader, i.e. me, is just desperate for truth and for real. I started out wanting to sound like John Updike or sound like a New York glitterati male writer, and I can't tell you what is really real in somebody else's voice. I disagree with Malcolm Gladwell. I think it's 10 hours—a little bit different there. But when I'm writing autobiographical spiritual pieces or my novels, I have to kind of settle myself down, like gentling a horse, and find that bus station inside of myself where I'm observing and I'm tugging on the sleeve of the person sitting next to me and saying, “I just saw something really interesting. Do you have a minute?” That's really what writing is. I just saw something or thought of something or imagined something or remembered something really interesting. Do you have a minute? If I'm talking to the person next to me, I'm not going to try to sound like Laurence Olivier or anybody else. I'm just going to tell them my story. The best four or five word great quote is from our screenwriter friend, Randy Mayem Singer, and she said: “Tell me a story. Make me care.” Those six words really transcend all genres. It's just: I can tell you a story my way if you're interested. Got a minute? Jo: You mentioned that, really interesting, you said, “I need to settle myself down,” particularly in these dark times. This is not a political show, and obviously we're all from different countries here and we all have different views of what difficult times are, but we all go through them. When big things in the world make us feel like perhaps what we are doing is not so important, how do we get through that? That “shouldn't I go do something more important than writing a story” feeling? Neal: Everybody is encouraged to be a political scientist nowadays, or to be an ethicist or to be a moralist as their job, and that's kind of ridiculous, right? We've been handed our role. By the time you're 30, you've been handed your role in the world, and that's your productive role. You have certain citizenship requirements, which might include voting or marching or watching the news every day. That's not the rest of your day unless you actually work in parliament as an aide or doing some kind of social policy work. I am not going to let the external world ruin my day. I'm going to keep that to a certain number of minutes of my day that is appropriate to my role in the world. I am perfectly productive in the world. I have lots of things that I do. I work hard. Everybody works hard. There are no lazy people in this world any more—civilisation's too difficult. You want lazy? Go back to 300,000 years of tribal life, where as soon as you had fulfilled your last need for calories for the day, you made it back to camp slowly so you didn't burn calories, and lulled from about 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. The rest of the day you reclined so you weren't burning calories and gossiped with your fellow tribespeople. None of us is like that now. I'm perfectly productive without having to say I should be more productive and more concerned about the foibles of the species. Anne: Neal does something with his clients, with whom he does this work on taming the inner critic. It's about having them make a list of what they do every day. Rain or shine or catastrophe or peace or war or whatever, you just do it. I wake up, I pray, I put my glasses on. I get a little bit of work done every day. I meditate for 15 minutes every day. I get outside every day because that is the most nourishing, spiritual reset button I can get to. I catch up with my friends. We have a grandson here. We hang out with him. I do certain things every day, and one of them is I get a little bit of work done. Of course what I'd rather do is just stay glued to CNN and have my tiny opinions on every single thing that is happening and how things would be better if they followed my always excellent advice. Instead, what I do is I will meditate for 50 minutes a day and it won't be really beautiful and inspiring—it'll be like a monkey at the mall who's over-caffeinated. I will also get outside. I don't know if I'll get a really good long walk with 10,000 steps in, but I will get outside and I will pay attention. I will breathe in fresh air. I will have moments of wonder. I will also sit down, and I will be doing it after we talk. I'm going to get my own writing done for the day. I really recommend that to writing students: write down what you do every day. And in it, figure out at least one pod—a 45-minute pod—where you can get a little bit of writing done. Something that may serve the writers in your audience is that I make long lists and I encourage all beginning writers to make long lists of every memory and thought and idea that they've had. But mostly memories, often starting very young. Thinking about early holidays and school are great prompts. Make a list of 25 memories you have that you've told people over the years that are meaningful to you. If you remember them, they're meaningful. You may think that they're meaningful because of this or that, but you sit down and you write about them for 45 minutes and you're going to discover that there was a kernel of insight, or even healing, in them that you hadn't known when you set out to write them. I taught writing forever at this bookstore called Book Passage in Marin. We would spend a part of every hour having the writers, the students, explain to me why they weren't getting any writing done, and they were excellent ideas. Any excuse your listeners have about why they're not getting any writing done—believe me, it's a good excuse and I've heard it 10 times. If you are committed to writing, you have to meet us halfway, and that means that you set aside 45 minutes or an hour and a half or whatever you can give me to get a little bit of writing done. Get one passage written—the first or eighth thing on the list of really important memories that you've carried in your pocket all these years. Neal: The typical amount of time that a Booker Prize winner, or a National Book Award winner here in America, spends writing—a novelist—is one to two hours in the morning, getting 45 minutes to an hour and a half of work done, a thousand to 1,500 words. And then they stop. The reason they stop is it's really brain-consuming. To do this is hard work, and it's intellectually vigorous. High-end programmers can work two and a half hours on average before they have to stop because they've used up their brain energy—the blood going to the brain and expending calories and whatever is going on in there. It's not a long time. It's just repetitive time. The Booker Prize winners, they typically work six days a week, not five days a week. An hour and a half a day is about the mean. About 1,200 words is about the mean. Jo: It's interesting because you mentioned what's stopping people from writing, and you also mentioned it's hard work. One of the things I've heard a lot recently is: “This is really hard. I thought writing was meant to be this romantic myth where I would sit down and things would stream into my brain and it would be easy. And if it's not easy and fun, then maybe it's wrong for me.” So maybe you could explain more about the hardness and why hard is still good. Hard doesn't mean it's a bad thing. Neal: The interesting thing about writers is that they are really interested in very complex thinking about sentences. A few things distinguish a writer from a subject matter expert or a plotter—who either writes plots and is interested in the movement of plots, or who is a subject matter expert in something and either novelises it or writes nonfiction. It's that a writer is first concerned about the puzzle of a sentence, second concerned about the flow of a paragraph really, and only thirdly concerned about the subject matter. I don't care what the subject matter is. What I want to concentrate on ultimately is the sentence. And getting a sentence to look right in context requires building sentences upon sentences upon sentences. It's more like painting than it is like writing in that sense. If you look at a painter, once they've put one brushstroke down—and usually it takes them a while to figure out what that brushstroke is, how big it is, how wide it is, how thick it is, how grainy it is—then the second brushstroke becomes a puzzle based on what they just did with the first brushstroke and the remaining canvas. A writer thinks that way about each sentence and realises that each sentence has layers of information in it—diction, colour, rhythm, harmony, melody, plot, all sorts of things are happening. How many of those are taken care of in that sentence? Well, that becomes the interest. It's hard in the sense that to be virtuosic at it, to be really good at it, requires a lot of study and a lot of mistakes. Most of the mistakes are getting rid of clichés and finding your way past them, and that's a long, long process. This isn't something that can be just picked up because you have a talent. You were told at a certain time you were a talented writer, so you can just pick it up. As soon as you get into it, you see that the sentences are demanding a heck of a lot of work. Anne: I would add that I don't find it all that fun and easy—I never find it fun and easy. I've been doing this professionally for 52 years now, since I was 20, when I worked at a magazine. I think that's an illusion. So much of becoming a writer is unlearning what you thought it meant and how it would go. That you would sit alone like Bartleby the Scrivener, hunched over working on your ledger. That was not true at all, because a lot of our book, Good Writing, has to do with the collaboration between you and a writing partner, a writing group or a writing collective, and eventually an editor. It's not about that lonely, hunched-over romantic, Wuthering Heights sense of seriousness. And it's also not giddy. It's not Walt Disney. It's just very real. It's one human sitting down at the desk with paper or at the keyboard, and it is just trying, one day at a time, to write what's on your heart, what's on your mind, what's on your scribbled notes, what you're trying to transcribe from this little bit of a flicker of an idea about something that you've always meant to tell on paper. And then writing it. Some parts of the day's work will be pulling teeth. The secret of writing—and I write about this a lot in Bird by Bird, I write a lot about it in Good Writing—is you just don't give up. Because you wanted to be a writer when you grew up. What that means is that you write a little bit every day and you read about writing. You read good books on writing. You read Stephen King. You read William Zinsser. You read all the Paris Review interviews of writers at work. You enter into the writing life because it's a calling, like a monk to a monastery. You've gotten into the water, it's a little cold at first, and you stay in it. And it starts to be something that is so fulfilling, if maybe not fun. It's fulfilling. You will feel this rare excitement that you're doing what you have put off for so long, or that you're re-entering it in a new way with a different sense of commitment and maybe a little bit more wisdom and probably a lot more stories to tell. Jo: I did want to ask Anne, because coming back to Bird by Bird, many writers listening will have read it. I've also read over the years about your son and your faith. These are really personal things that you have shared. It feels like we live in this age of judgement and cancellation, and writing what you call our truths can be very difficult. People are afraid. What would you say to them? And obviously also rule 33 is “write hard stuff”, so I guess that gets into it too. How do we do this? Anne: A lot of people don't have the calling to write personal stuff or autobiographical stuff or stuff about spiritual or emotional or psychological healing. They want to write about England in the 1300s. I've always told my writing students to write what they would love to come upon, because then they're creating it. If they love to read historical romances, or they love to read journals—I have to say, I read every single journal of Virginia Woolf's in my early twenties, and I read every single volume of her letters in my early twenties. It was thrilling to be in that intimate, umbilical connection to a writer that I loved so much, and into the world of Bloomsbury, and into the world of England between the wars. People may not want to write like I write, and I would assume they don't. My calling is that I love to write about real life and I use my immediate experiences of daily living and my family and my husband and our animals and my nation and my recovery and my church. All of that is the stuff that I love to come upon in other people's work, and so I write it. Neal writes differently. He is a journalist and a novelist, and he is writing a lot in a much more sociological way than I am. He is writing with this font of knowledge about socioeconomic and historical understanding of the world. Yet he's just raggedy old Neal Allen, but he loves to come upon different stuff than I love to come upon. Does that answer your question? Neal: I think one thing to notice is that the whole bully-victim cycle that we are promoting and living in now—and it's a cycle because if somebody claims that they have been bullied, then their only defence is to become a bully themselves. The victims become the bullies. It just gets worse and worse. It's the old revenge story. What I've noticed when I think about it is the authors who I respect the most tend to be humanists. Humanists tend not to be cancelled, and I've never felt a great danger. Of course, I watch my words in certain ways that are fashionable—you can't use this word any more, and all of that. But in terms of ideas, humanists embrace the world in a funny, different kind of way than people who chase after conflict, chase after separation of people from each other, tribalism, all of that. When I look back, my heroes were always humanists. Some of them might be cancelled now, but just for the weirdest reasons—like Henry Miller or Mark Twain might be cancelled for very strange reasons. These are absolute humanists who love everybody in the world in a certain kind of odd way. Virginia Woolf is the most incredible humanist in the world. She's not going to be cancelled. Jo: She cancelled herself. Neal: There we go. Jo: As we come towards the end, I do want to return to something—you've both talked about calling and you've been handed your role, and this sort of “we are writers now.” Both of you have had great longevity in the career, and I've been doing this now 20 years. I've noticed so many people who leave the writing life, so I wondered what tips you had on making it long term. How do we do this long term, assuming we are feeling a calling? People have to balance the money side, they're balancing book marketing, which is always a nightmare for all of us, and the writing. Any tips for longevity? Neal: I have no idea. I have lived outside of the writing life, just kind of using it as a secondary skill, for half of my life. I left journalism because it didn't pay well enough to support a family of six. I moved into the corporate world. I loved the corporate world. I didn't have any problem with it, but it wasn't the writing world. When I came out of the corporate world, I first went into “tame your inner critic” sessions with people—executive coaching, other kinds of coaching. Only lately, only in the last 10 years, have I really resumed my writing career. I think maintaining a writing career, like anything in the arts, is incredibly difficult financially. It just will be. Annie will tell you—you were, what, 15 years into your career before you had your first home office? Anne: Yes. Neal: Right. Anne: More than that. I was 20 years in before I had a door I could close to keep the Huns out—i.e. my child. Here's the thing: nobody cares if you write, if you hate it, or if you've given up. It might be that you would find your creative soul, your imaginative, creative life force at ecstatic dancing on Saturdays in the town park, which we offer here in our tiny town. It might be that you're a painter. My best friend started painting several years ago and she's incredible. If you want to write, the horrible thing is that you just have to keep setting aside a pod. I keep using the word pod because that's how I get any work done at all—an hour. Now, Neal and I can both tell you, and Neal alluded to this: you set aside an hour and that will give you maybe 40 minutes of actual writing. And we'll give the Booker Prize winners 40 minutes of actual writing. You have two hours and that gives you an hour and 15 minutes. That's how it works. If you care and if you long to be a writer, to immerse yourself in the writing life—I hate to sound like a Nike ad, and I don't know if you have this in England—but you just do it. One thing that gets in everybody's way is this fantasy of getting published and how if they get published, it will be like the world has stamped “validated” on their parking ticket and their self-esteem will now be much, much better and more consistently excellent than it ever was before. We can tell you: we've got this book that's out, brand new, and it makes you much more insecure and much more anxious than you were before it got published. Because how's it going to do? Is it going to get reviewed? There are very, very few places reviewing books any more. Carol Shields, who wrote an incredible book 30 years ago called The Stone Diaries. She was teaching large, large writing retreats, a thousand people at a time, and she would tell them that five to 10 of them will be published. Getting published means that you get your book out and you have one week to make it. You have one week in the bookstores for it to get noticed. And there are 180,000 hardback books published in America every year in general interest. So you write a novel that's about a small town. You have great dreams that it's going to be an Oprah book and that this is going to happen and it will lead to a second contract, and then you can start investing in diamonds or buy a set of fish forks. It doesn't happen. My first book that made any money at all for me was my fifth book. It was a journal of my son's first year called Operating Instructions, and it was the first time that I didn't have to have a second job. I was 38, and I had been writing—and writing full time—since I was 20 and publishing since I was 26. If the carrot that is enticing you to get any new work done is publication and finding an agent and getting published, it's not going to happen for you. I can just promise you that. If your dream is to become a writer and to become a member of the writing community and to write—and it will be discouraging—but if you want to write, you just keep pushing back your sleeves. You don't get up. You sit down and you keep your butt in the chair. If your work is really good, it may get published. If your work is excellent, it may not. But that can't be what gets you to commit to being a writer when you grow up. Jo: Fantastic. So where can people find Good Writing and all your books and everything you both do online? Neal: On March 17th the book comes out. You can get it online, anywhere online. It's published by Penguin Avery. March 17th, it gets released. Anne: As we said, it'll be in the bookstores for a while. Neal: It'll be in the bookstores in America. You might have to go online in Great Britain at first. Jo: Oh yes, it's definitely there. And what about your websites as well? Anne: I don't have a website. Neal: I have a modest website at ShapesOfTruth.com. That tells you about my other books also. Anne: I'm at Substack, Anne Lamott. I'm on Facebook, Anne Lamott. I'm kind of all over the place. But this is kind of terrifying: 80% of books bought in America are bought at Amazon on cell phones. Jo: Yes, absolutely. Actually, I was going to ask—have you recorded the audiobook as a pair? Anne: Yes, we have. It's available if you go—I hate to always be plugging Amazon, but it's so easy. If you go to Amazon, it'll give you a choice of hardback or audio or Kindle. Neal: And if you don't want to go to Amazon and want to find another place to buy it that you feel more comfortable with, go to Penguin Random House and just put in “Good Writing, Anne Lamott.” I think it'll take you to a splash page that gives you a choice of a half dozen online places to order it. Jo: Brilliant. Well, thanks so much, both of you, for your time. This has been brilliant. Anne: Oh, Jo, thank you. Pleasure and an honour. Thank you for having us. Neal: Thank you, Jo. As you can see, we really get turned on talking about this! Anne: Yes, we do.The post Strong Verbs And Hard Truths. Good Writing With Anne Lamott and Neal Allen first appeared on The Creative Penn.

In Radio Universe: How to Explore Space Without Leaving Earth (Hachette UK, 2026) award-winning astrophysicist Emma Chapman takes us on an electrifying voyage through the cosmos using one of the most powerful, yet overlooked, tools in science: the radio wave. With dazzling clarity and humour, Chapman reveals how these invisible messengers glide through space, bounce off planets, tunnel through clouds and slip past galactic dust – carrying secrets of the universe that no other kind of light can uncover. We follow a single radio wave as it escapes Earth and travels outward – ricocheting off the Moon, tunnelling through Venus's furnace-thick atmosphere, tracing ancient ice hidden in Mercury's shadows and diving deep into the swirling arms of the Milky Way. Along the way, we meet black holes that roar louder than stars, pulsars more precise than atomic clocks and galaxies lit by the very first starlight. We explore volcanic pancake planets, death-defying neutron stars, the eerie possibility of alien broadcasts – and the fragile question of our own future in the cosmos.A celebration of human ingenuity and cosmic curiosity, The Radio Universe reveals that the true frontier of space isn't ‘out there' – it's humming quietly all around us, waiting to be heard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Why does friendship feel like an intuitive gift for some, but a complex, manual process for others? This week, Emily Kircher-Morris sits down with social-emotional learning expert Caroline Maguire, author of the award-winning Why Will No One Play With Me? and the upcoming Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults. The conversation dismantles the harmful narrative that connection should happen organically, reframing social struggles not as character flaws, but as understandable skill gaps influenced by executive dysfunction and past trauma. They talk about the concept of "Middle School Caroline," the inner child who reacts to perceived slights with high-alert protection, and suggest advice on unmasking, managing rejection sensitivity, and finding "your people" who value compassion over perfect social performance. TAKEAWAYS The "friendship should be easy" narrative fuels unnecessary shame. Connection is a complex skill set, not an innate character trait. Executive dysfunction directly impacts the logistical and emotional labor of maintaining adult relationships. Rejection Sensitivity (RSD) often functions as a protective mechanism whose past social trauma colors present-day perceptions. Unmasking in friendships is a gradual spectrum that requires identifying safe people rather than an all-or-nothing disclosure. Neurodivergent social strengths like info-dumping and deep empathy are valid forms of connection that deserve recognition and framing, rather than suppression. Neurodivergent adults often base social perceptions on the most recent interaction, making objectivity and evidence-based thinking vital for relationship stability. Mental health professionals, join us for our upcoming training, Interpreting Autism Assessment Data in High-Masking and Under-Identified Presentations. Dr. Taylor Day is the presenter, and it will be held Friday, April 3 at 2:00 PM Eastern. If you can't make it live, the recorded self-study version will be available shortly after the live event. It's approved for both APA and NBCC continuing ed hours. You can register here. Caroline Maguire, M.Ed., PCC is an internationally recognized expert in social-emotional learning, ADHD coaching, and relationship development. She is the author of the award-winning book Why Will No One Play with Me? and the upcoming Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults (Balance Books, April 2026). As the host of The ADHD Social Playbook podcast, Caroline helps neurodivergent individuals build the confidence and connection skills needed to thrive in relationships. A coach, educator, and sought-after speaker, Caroline developed a comprehensive SEL training methodology used by parents, clinicians, and educators to foster self-awareness, emotional regulation, and meaningful social interactions. She is the founder of the family-focused coach training program at the ADD Coach Academy, and brings both professional expertise and personal insight to her work as a neurodivergent person with ADHD, dyslexia, and learning disabilities. Her work has been featured by TEDx, ADDitude, WebMD, MindBodyGreen, and more. BACKGROUND READING Facebook, Instagram, "Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults" book: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books a Million, Hachette, Audible The Neurodiversity Podcast is on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky, and you're invited to join our Facebook Group. For more information go to www.NeurodiversityPodcast.com. If you'd like members of your organization, school district, or company to know more about the subjects discussed on our podcast, Emily Kircher-Morris provides keynote addresses, workshops, and training sessions worldwide, in-person or virtually. You can choose from a list of established presentations, or work with Emily to develop a custom talk to fit your unique situation. To learn more, visit our website.

Anne Ghesquière reçoit Natasha Andrews, professeure de yoga et praticienne en santé intégrative. Comment passer d'une santé subie à une vitalité joyeuse et durable ? Comment décoder les cycles saisonniers pour mieux prendre soin de soi ? Et comment les pratiques ancestrales comme le yoga et l'Ayurveda peuvent-elles devenir de véritables alliées de longévité et une santé rayonnante ? Natasha Andrews nous invite à ralentir, à respirer et à renouer avec les rythmes naturels du corps et de la vie. Yoga saisonnier, respiration, rituels bien-être, alimentation inspirée de l'Ayurveda : elle mêle avec grâce philosophie du vivant et hygiène de vie pour rendre la santé plus simple, plus consciente et plus accessible. Son magnifique ouvrage FLOW (S), est publié chez Hachette. Épisode #671Quelques citations du podcast avec Natasha Andrews :"Qu'on soit un corps humain, un arbre, même un objet inanimé, on fait partie d'une même trame d'énergie.""La beauté nous inspire, nous aide à nous reconnecter à soi, nous ouvre les yeux.""Ces pratiques ancestrales, le simple fait de se connecter à soi, de ralentir, de bien manger, prendre soin de soi, nous aident à rester présents, résilients et finalement être plus en harmonie avec la vie."Recevez chaque semaine l'inspirante newsletter Métamorphose par Anne GhesquièreDécouvrez Objectif Métamorphose, notre programme en 12 étapes pour partir à la rencontre de soi-même.Suivez nos RS : Insta, Facebook & TikTokAbonnez-vous sur Apple Podcast /Spotify / Deezer / CastBox / YoutubeSoutenez Métamorphose en rejoignant la Tribu MétamorphoseThèmes abordés lors du podcast avec Natasha Andrews :00:00Introduction01:30L'invitée03:37L'impact d'une nature sauvage et enveloppante05:47Le rituel du lac de l'Arbre à thé10:21L'importance de l'esthétique11:22Qu'est-ce que le flow ?12:20L'union avec la nature14:15Les bienfaits du earthing !15:48Froid & immunité19:47Cycle féminin et jeune intermittent21:56Le Yoga sūtra pour retrouver l'équilibre23:58Se reconnecter à la non-dualité25:40Comment intégrer ces pratiques au quotidien ?27:16Comment le yoga influence la santé cellulaire ?31:01 La respiration nasale31:45Un Kriya à pratiquer au quotidien32:52Les enseignements des doshas34:31Alimentation et saisonnalité37:14Les bienfaits des bouillons41:09Les 5 piliers de la médecine intégrative44:11Comment préserver sa santé hormonale ?46:45Routine avant le coucher47:35Les conseils alimentation50:13Activité physique et cortisol51:45L'importance du renforcement physique53:21 L'hygiène nasale55:24Les 3 compléments à prendre toute l'année58:26Un mantra pour garder l'élan ;-)Avant-propos et précautions à l'écoute du podcast Photo DR Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.