A Mystery Author’s Identity Revealed

Sticky AI writing situation

Another day, another story about the ethics of AI use. This actually comes from New York Times‘Ethicist’s column. People are writing ethical dilemmas in search of answers from columnist Kwame Anthony Appiah. Volunteers from the local historic society wrote about a group they learned that high school essayists who they awarded were too late to write submissions using AI. In this case, Appiah may come to write back that AI has written and changed our relationship, assessing skills and confirming that boundaries regarding AI use are explicitly stated, especially when talking about the younger generation.

My National Book Awards Longlist Prediction

Last week, the National Book Awards unfolded a long list of five award categories. I haven’t read all the books this year for prestigious awards, but that doesn’t mean I can’t make almost unfounded predictions about the winner! So here is my quick off-the-cuff guess for winners in each category:

• Sea of ​​Lemon Trees: Roberto Alvarez’s Corrido (Young People’s Literature) by Maria Dolores Aguira: A book about a 12-year-old boy living in the United States who lives in anti-immigrant, anti-Mexican propaganda, reminds us of our present moments.
• Do not part ways by Hankan translated by e. Yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Translated Literature): Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature and the International Booker Prize, but never received recognition in the NBA! Called “both hymns to lasting friendship and the discussion I remember,” Kang’s latest has been extremely popular with readers and critics this year, and proves that she still has it.
• Thunder Intent: A newly selected poem by Patricia Smith (Poetry): I am out of my depth in this category, but she is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and this book is very talented and collects works like prolific poets, so I go to Smith.
• One day, everyone would have always been against it by Omar el-Akkad (non-fiction): Honestly, I’m choosing this. When El Akkado wrote this book about the genocide taking place in Gaza, he wrote a deeply moving book that tells of huge and tragic moments in global and humane history.
• Wilderness (Fiction) by Angela Furunoy: Sometimes books just scream “winners,” and Furunoy’s latest is one of those books. I personally am thrilled to read this novel following decades of friendship between five black women that sound seductive, deep and timely.

These are my predictions and you can find the complete long list here.