Category: news
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Book birthdays, parties and new short stories
While Geraldine and I were whooping it up in Collingswood, Larry Sceurman hosted a release party for his latest children’s book, Frog and Crow’s Conversation. With a brunch of homemade chocolate chip cookies (baked by his beautiful wife, Barbara) and coffee from Dunkin, Larry entertained his guests with a read of the story…
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Fun recognitions for Group Portrait and Coach of the Building
Ben Goluboff, one of the two authors behind Group Portrait, our recently-released poetry chapbook featuring speculative biographical poetry about the artists in a photograph from Peggy Guggenheim’s circa World War II salon, was interviewed for Classic Chicago magazine. The piece by Lenore Macdonald also provides a lovely review of the book and of Ben’s work at-large. Though…
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Lawsuits involving AI & the importance of copyright
In the car this morning, I listened to a Wall Street Journal podcast about the recent lawsuit between authors and Anthropic AI. A judge recently ruled that Anthropic could use authors’ work to train its AI model under fair use if the works were acquired in such a way that compensated the author. Originally,…
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Storytelling to benefit CHOP
On Saturday (August 16), I am still on deck to teach a three-hour, hands-on memoir workshop (with the same quirky flavor as this newsletter) at Blank Slate Community Center in Yardley, Pa. If sign ups don’t increase, we may postpone the event until fall. The $40 price tag includes personalized guidance, materials and a free…
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Pennsylvania Creative Entrepreneurship Accelerator
And then I came home to find the check for my grant from the Pennsylvania Creative Entrepreneurship Accelerator Program. I will not be keeping a single dime from this money as it is earmarked for advertising. My grant proposal suggested using half for Amazon ads to provide more national exposure for our…
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Angel celebrates Steve’s Café at WDVR
WDVR welcomed Angel Ackerman of Parisian Phoenix Publishing, a Lehigh Valley-based small press that published more than 35 books in the last four years, to the station as host for a special one-hour tribute to the Ignatz family and Steve’s Café in Phillipsburg, N.J. The program will air on WDVR…
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