Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Fairly quiet on the books news front today (and I would expect it to be this way for awhile for reasons you can probably guess and are feeling yourself. Nervous), so I am clear out my digital pockets with a bunch of stuff I have saved for Today in Books, but don’t have much to say about this to say except: “Huh this is pretty interesting. I bet some people will be into this.” So consider that appended to each of the links below: New Jersey State Senate passes bill intended to halt book bans, protect librarians [New Jersey Monitor] Halloween Costumes for Writers [Gabino Iglesias on Substack] AI Slop Is Flooding Medium [Wired] What is the Point of Epigraphs, Anyway? [The Walrus] Siri Hustvedt to write a book about her late husband Paul Auster [The Guardian] The Names of Library Carts at the Austin Public Library [via Austin Kleon on X] The Last Gentleman [New York Magazine] Jeff VanderMeer’s Nightmare Fuel [Esquire] How Aleksei Navalny’s Prison Diaries Got Published [The New York Times] Are You a Font Expert? [Norton] At Stanford, a Change to Creative Writing Feels Personal {The Chronicle of Higher Education] The Older You Get, the Less Time You Have for Bad Books [LitHub]
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