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  1. Unmasking Italian author Elena Ferrante, because we must

    There's been yet more speculation as to the identity of the Italian author known as Elena Ferrante. The writer of novels including the Neapolitan Quartet, and The Lying Lives of Adults, has always been upfront about their use of a pseudonym. And despite writing novels since 1992, her identity, their identity, has, so far, remained a mystery. Nonetheless, the resolve to unmask the person, or persons, behind the works written under the name of Elena Ferrante, refuses to wane. Of course […]

    disassociated.com/unmasking-it

  2. Bias isn't static. It grows in the loop, not the corpus.

    LLMs develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration during use, which means the behavior itself is the mechanism. You can audit a training dataset. You cannot audit a feedback loop that hasn't happened yet.

    Not inherited. Not static. Not in the data.

    The agents sort this, or they don't.

    #novels #adaptiveexploration

    links.madcoolsocial.com/4tmoJTi

  3. After reading a lot of papers about societal collapse, I wanted a different perspective, so I turned to novels. Here's what I learned:

    * Novels often use collapse only as a backdrop to motivate their protagonist.
    * Collapse happens at the scale of systems, but novels are built around one or two people. Though some books get around this by following a large cast, or an institution.
    * Timescale matters too. If a book covers a week, this is just to short to really much about collapse.

    Full post has short reviews of all of them, ranked: existentialcrunch.substack.com

    Would love to hear more recommendations!

    #Collapse #Fiction #Novels

  4. ⚾ 1,500 VIEWS! 🎉

    As MLB heads into the homestretch and the playoff races heat up, The First Out has reached 1,500 views on Royal Road!

    Thank you to everyone who has followed Brad Hawley’s journey from promising prospect to the first openly gay active player in professional baseball.

    The postseason is coming. Brad’s story is already here.🏳️‍🌈
    tinyurl.com/2s3f8vdu
    #amwriting #writingcommunity #LGBT #Gay #Baseball #sport #sports #MLB #MiLB #writers #novels #writersofmastodon
    @lgbt
    @baseball

  5. WHAT am I reading?

    Just Finished 'The Viaduct Killings' by Wes Markin. Cosy crime set in my home county of Yorkshire. Nice easy reading & I'll read another of Wes's books, which says something, I guess.

    Currently reading 'Ancient Rome' by Simon Baker. It's remarkable how similar the power structures are today to those that brought Rome to power & destroyed it. A self serving elite that craved power & influence over everything, rising inequality between those who have & those who didn't... and so on. It's a lesson to us all & a good read, if a bit heavy in places.

    #Reading #AmReading #Novels #Books #CosyCrime #RomanEmpire

  6. I’m a novelist — cheering the $2.4M AI book deal that should open everyone’s eyes

    The publishing industry is in an uproar this month as agents and editors alike confront a mysterious new…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Artificialintelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #auctions #Book #Books #Novels #opinion #publishing #Scandals #Technology
    newsbeep.com/us/816112/

  7. Writers and readers of Mastodon! What are your favorite 'guilty pleasure' fantasy, horror, or sci-fi tropes?

    A big one for me is magic systems that require a flowchart to understand 😅

    #writing #reading #books #fantasy #scifi #horror #novels #tropes #guiltypleasure #fantasybooks #scifibooks #horrorbooks

  8. This. Build our own institutions. They'll succeed.

    "#Keene is the eponymous tastemaker at the helm of a new #imprint within #WickedSonPress, a 5-year-old #publisher that has released mostly #nonfiction that leans right.

    #MegKeene #Books will release four to six #novels over the next year that she and #WickedSon’s founders believe will elevate #Jewish voices and reconstruct a bygone communal Jewish #literary conversation. She’ll also edit a forthcoming #literarymagazine designed to shape the Jewish #book-buying audience.

    “My goal is to make Jewish #publishing feel really cool,” Keene told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

    “I’m planning to acquire books across genres — male authors, female authors, romance, thriller, literary fiction — you know, the works,” she added. “I also intend to put everything I have behind each book, and sort of ask the Jewish community to support these books and make the case for them.”

    jta.org/2026/07/28/culture/fee

  9. 🧵 1/3

    The Forty Days of Musa Dagh -- Franz Werfel

    I read this 1933 novel a little while ago. It's a long, one might almost say sprawling, fiction of an Armenian community's 1915 resistance to the genocide enacted by the.Young Turks.

    The narrative of a community under siege is gripping, but the novel also deals with complex themes of identity, community, and nationality. As one might expect from a German speaking Jew who grew up in the capital of the Czech lands of Austria-Hungary, Werfel's treatment of the themes of nationalism and cosmopolitanism are, thankfully, never simplistic.

    Obviously , much of the book's significance rests on it being an early literary response to the Armenian genocide. I'm sure that a horrified desire to learn about this campaign of persecution, exile, and killing accounts for much of the success that this book achieved in the US market on its publication in 1934. A readiness to learn about a gruesome episode in the "war to end all wars" probably played a part too in boosting sales.

    I would also hazard a guess that for many readers in the thirties, the novel's story of a community's survival, albeit at a terrible price, could be seen as a parallel for the survival by individuals,families, and cities of the unprecedented hardships and upheavals of the Great Depression. The success of "Gone With The Wind" comes to mind.

    Another parallel that now seems eerily prescient is that of...

    #Books #Fiction #Novels #FortyDaysOfMusaDagh #FranzWerfel #LiteratureInGerman #ArmenianGenocide #20thCenturyLiterature #1930s #GreatDepression

  10. Today is Daphne du Maurier’s birthday!

    Few #writers could create an atmosphere like Daphne du Maurier. Her #stories begin elegantly, then something shifts. A beautiful house can become a prison, love can turn into possession, and silence can be more frightening than a scream. Suddenly you are #reading faster than you planned.

    Have you read any of her #novels?

    #today #onthisday #birthday #DaphneduMaurier #Maurier #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #readingcommunity #booksky #book

  11. Today is Daphne du Maurier’s birthday!

    Few #writers could create an atmosphere like Daphne du Maurier. Her #stories begin elegantly, then something shifts. A beautiful house can become a prison, love can turn into possession, and silence can be more frightening than a scream. Suddenly you are #reading faster than you planned.

    Have you read any of her #novels?

    #today #onthisday #birthday #DaphneduMaurier #Maurier #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #readingcommunity #booksky #book

  12. Today is Daphne du Maurier’s birthday!

    Few #writers could create an atmosphere like Daphne du Maurier. Her #stories begin elegantly, then something shifts. A beautiful house can become a prison, love can turn into possession, and silence can be more frightening than a scream. Suddenly you are #reading faster than you planned.

    Have you read any of her #novels?

    #today #onthisday #birthday #DaphneduMaurier #Maurier #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #readingcommunity #booksky #book

  13. INTRICATE, TERRIFYING, DREAMLIKE novel of alienated despair weaves together the stories of two young trans women who look exactly alike, caught in the horrors of modern life and something deeper. Kafkaesque yet fresh. B PLUS

    littlepuss.net/shop/p/persona-

    @bookstodon

    #book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #novel #novels #horror #lgbtqai2s #lgbtqai #trans #transwriters #SmallPressSunday

  14. INTRICATE, TERRIFYING, DREAMLIKE novel of alienated despair weaves together the stories of two young trans women who look exactly alike, caught in the horrors of modern life and something deeper. Kafkaesque yet fresh. B PLUS

    littlepuss.net/shop/p/persona-

    @bookstodon

    #book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #novel #novels #horror #lgbtqai2s #lgbtqai #trans #transwriters #SmallPressSunday

  15. INTRICATE, TERRIFYING, DREAMLIKE novel of alienated despair weaves together the stories of two young trans women who look exactly alike, caught in the horrors of modern life and something deeper. Kafkaesque yet fresh. B PLUS

    littlepuss.net/shop/p/persona-

    @bookstodon

    #book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #fiction #novel #novels #horror #lgbtqai2s #lgbtqai #trans #transwriters #SmallPressSunday