C.B. Bernard
@cbbernard.com
Novelist (ORDINARY BEAR, SMALL ANIMALS CAUGHT IN TRAPS), nonfiction writer (CHASING ALASKA). Pacific NW/Alaska expat in Rhode Island exile. Dogs, books, boats. Feet in the ocean, head in the clouds. Find me at www.cbbernard.com.
Had the pleasure of joining the delightful Gigi Howard's @drinksinthelibrary.bsky.social podcast to share my love for Wallace Stegner's CROSSING TO SAFETY, lifelong friendships, libraries & other third places, & maple Old Fashioned cocktails. #5amwritersclub #writinglife youtu.be/8A0zXjDXq_0?...
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner with CB Bernard
YouTube video by DrinksInTheLibrary
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“I’ve decided that since Utah did the egregious disservice of passing a law that says my book is illegal on school shelves, everyone here is getting a copy of it.” @jodipicoult.bsky.social and the art of subverting book bans. www.sltrib.com/news/educati... via The Salt Lake Tribune
Author Jodi Picoult came to Utah with a surprise: 600 free copies of her bestselling novel banned from public schools
Picoult encouraged Salt Lake Book Festival attendees to give their copy to a teen who might “need to read it.”
sltrib.com
On No Kings Day, 7 million Americans turned out to protest the Trump administration. Here's the wonderful front-page coverage furnished by NYT. (There isn't any).
Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.
I never met Noah Adams, but he kept me company for 18 years of commutes, road trips, and chores. Hell of a storyteller.
Dennis M. Taylor@dmt4mt.bsky.social · 3d agoHolly Williams is like the Platonic ideal of what a correspondent should be.
Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 5d agoNEW: We are publishing audio from CBS News’ explosive foreign bureau all-hands, in which foreign editor Shayndi Raice unleashed an extended tirade before tangling with correspondent Holly Williams. Listen to the audio on this week’s Power Lines: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
This country didn't lose the moral high ground. It threw it away. It voted it out. It used it for target practice. www.opb.org/article/2026...
OPB sources: 3 children among dead in Bend school shooting
The shooting occurred at Silver Rail Elementary School. A Bend police spokesperson confirmed the shooting suspect is dead.
opb.org
can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.
Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · last wk.Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.
Sally Rooney's publisher is pulling her books from the UK market. She can no longer receive royalties from UK sales of her books. She fears arrest if she enters the country. Political dissent, effectively treated as a criminal offense. It's hard to overstate how frightening and insidious this is.
Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support
Irish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest
theguardian.com
country's paying a heavy price for not slapping this type of guy hard in the face
A classic example of men who like the smell of their own farts.
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · last wk."AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO"
"The sanctions are intended to undermine the rule of law internationally and the work that an independent judicial institution is doing. Our work will continue across all our situations, our investigations and our prosecutions." www.reuters.com/world/us-imp...
EXCLUSIVE: US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Trump administration has long been hostile to the court and has previously imposed sanctions on its prosecutors and judges.
reuters.com
Ghostwriters have told The Bookseller that commissions are falling as prospective authors experiment with generative AI, while others are increasingly being asked to work on AI-generated manuscripts. 👇
Ghostwriters haunted by AI as commissions fall and machine-written manuscripts rise
ebx.sh
Just in! New Nobel Prize laureate in literature Anne Carson stands surprised in her kitchen in Reykjavík, Iceland. Stay tuned for our exclusive interview with her coming soon. Join us in congratulating our 2026 literature laureate - send your greetings in the comments.
I'm gonna just say it: I think this is a really good book for this time of year.
"Librarians are defenders of democracy. We’re defenders of the freedom to read. We’re protectors of patron privacy. Libraries are one of the few places in this surveillance economy that are not trying to collect and sell your data." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Forget the Shushing. Librarians Have a Whole Lot to Say. (Gift Article)
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
nytimes.com
This was wild to see. My first time writing for the screen. My thanks to Zoe Kazan for inviting me on this journey back in 2023, and my agent Jason Richman and everyone at @unitedtalentagency.bsky.social for their work on my behalf.
Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline
Nick Pettigrew@nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 8mo agoI'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
"A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out." — Wallace Stegner #5amwritersclub
Hey, here’s some more books I liked. From my Beethoven era. You might like them too. #ThursdayRecs
