68: The Great Big Holiday Gift Guide, 2024 Edition
Author and bookstore owner Lindsey Leavitt shares her expertise on holiday gift guides and recommends books for everyone on your shopping list, highlighting the unique offerings of her store Folklore Bookshop.
26 Aug 2024
67: Authors Against Book Bans with guests David Levithan and Maggie Tokuda-Hall
The number of books being banned and challenged in schools and libraries has increased exponentially in the USA in recent years. These attacks on our freedom to read are not coming just from fringe zealots -- they are being embedded into legislation across the country, and that's a BIG problem for anyone who values public libraries, public schools, education, books, and, yanno... FREEDOM. Authors Against Book Bans is a coalition of authors who are fighting the good fight to help change that, and YOU can help! Authors David Levithan and Maggie Tokuda-Hall are two of the founding members of AABB, and they join me to discuss what book banning even is, why and where the problem is blowing up, and what readers and authors can do about it.
Show Notes can be found at: https://www.jenniferlaughran.com/literaticast
19 Jun 2024
66: Hallucinating AI Spider Robots with Martha Brockenbrough
Author Martha Brockenbrough joins me to discuss her new book FUTURE TENSE: HOW WE MADE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE -- AND HOW IT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING. We're tackling your burning AI-related questions, such as: Should authors and illustrators be worried about AI? HOW worried? Are there ethical ways to utilize AI technology? How can AI help us, and how can it hurt? If Aunt Gladys won't stop posting weird AI images of big-eyed baby peacocks on her Facebook page, should you un-invite her to Thanksgiving dinner? Should we all throw our phones into the ocean and move to an underground bunker? MAYBE! Tune in to find out!
Links to all the books we discussed, and more, can be found in the show notes: https://www.jenniferlaughran.com/literaticast
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