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Algorithm Searches For Career Novelists
De Montfort Literature is offering a £24,000 starting salary to writers who pass a selection process that involves an algorithm designed to identify career novelists, and includes psychometric tests and interviews. Up to 10 novelists will receive support with mentoring, editing, designing, promoting, and publishing. The authors would receive 50% of the profits.
Michiko Kakutani Speaks On Her Decision To Become An Author
Michiko Kakutani, the famed book critic for The New York Times, spoke to Vanity Fair about her decision to become an author in the Trump era. Kakutani left the paper to write The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump. The author said one reason she wrote the book is to call attention to the denunciation of fake news and the citing of alternative facts by Trump and the White House.
Silver & Black Back In Development
Those who have been anticipating Marvel’s Spider-Man spinoff Silver & Black will have to continue anticipating past its planned 2019 release date. The film following female mercenary Silver Sable and Spider-man love interest Black Cat will not premiere in February after all, and Deadline reported word of a possible re-write.