I don’t select my “favorite story of the week,” but if I did, this one would be it. If you read nothing else here today, or anywhere else, read this. Bring tissues. And feel gratitude, and perhaps some wonder: Judson’s Last Ride by Sean Trende.
You have a book idea. You start researching and perhaps even writing. You’re excited about it. And then, in a bookstore or an online column or post, you see it. Someone has already published a book that sounds like what you’re working on. Your response is something like feeling all four of your car tires deflate at once. What do you do? Writing coach Ann Kroker has some suggestions.
The controversy over writing and artificial intelligence continues to rage. A prizewinning article in a literary magazine that may actually have been written by AI. Books in which quotations of other works turn out to be invented by AI, Books written partially or more than partially by AI programs. Writing using what suspiciously looks like AI-pirated plagiarism. But with all this, not unusual when a new technology is developed, Joel Miller suggests that perhaps writers are focused on the wrong AI battle.
More Good Reads
America 250
Why 1776 matters to modern Britain – Clement Knox at The Critic Magazine.
This Jewish Community in the Caribbean Smuggled Gunpowder to the Patriots During the Revolution – John Hanc at Smithsonian Magazine.
The Sound of Independence – Lois Bliss Herbine at Journal of the American Revolution.
The Constitutionalism of The Federalist Papers – William Allen at The Imaginative Conservative.
Treason on the Floor: Patrick Henry’s Defiant Challenge to King George – Jason Clark at This Is the Day.
Faith
What’s Wrong With Boys? – R. Scott Clark at The Heidelblog.
American Stuff
Property No More: The Quiet Emancipation of Dred Scott – Jason Clark at This Is the Day.
Dolley Madison’s World – Catherine Allgor at American Heritage.
The Lobby, Fox Theater – Chris Naffziger at St. Louis Patina.
Writing and Literature
The Return of Buccmaster – Paul Kingsnorth at The Abby of Misrule.
An Ounce of Clarity vs a Pound of Cleverness – Samuel D. James at Digital Liturgies.
Film
“Les Miserables:” A Rousing Tale for Slumbering Souls – Barbara Elliott at The Imaginative Conservative.
News Media
Stephen Colbert Didn’t Get Cancelled – Mass Culture Did – Aaron Renn.
The Media’s Inversion pf Hezbollah’s War Against Israel – John Spencer t the Mir Yam Institute.
Poetry
“Sea-Shell Murmurs,” poem by Eugene Lee-Hamilton and “The Ecchoing Green,” poem by William Blake – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
The Bell Ringer – David Whyte.
Life and Culture
The Dignity of Dependence: How the Vulnerabilities We Share Become the Ties That Bind – Alisa Ruddell at Front Porch Republic.
Christ Our Hope in Life and Death – Jordan Kauflin
Painting: Books and Reading, illustration by Norman Rockwell (1894-1978).
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