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AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library

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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.

It’s a clean-out-the-refrigerator day here on Today in Books. So, you can make your meal out of the links that have been in there awhile before they go bad.

Barnes & Noble Running a 25% all Pre-Order Sale [Ends tomorrow]

AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library [404 Media]

Governor Healey Signs Executive Order to Establish Massachusetts’ First-Ever Poet Laureate [mass.gov]

We need to talk about those controversial new Jane Austen book covers [Creative Bloq]

25 Years Ago, Joan Didion Kept a Diary. It’s About to Become Public [The New York Times]

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another Test Screens, Confirmed to Be Modern Update on Vineland by Thomas Pynchon [The Film Stage]

The Book Marketing Society’s Award Winners [The Bookseller]

The 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2025 [Esquire]

Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Sandman’ to end with upcoming second season at Netflix [Entertainment Weekly]

‘Frankenstein’ First Look: Oscar Isaac Is Guillermo del Toro’s Mad Scientist as Netflix Confirms November Release [Variety]

Judy Blume’s Forever… TV Series Will Pull at Your Heart Strings [E! Online]

Jury selection begins at trial of man accused of blinding Salman Rushdie [BBC]

Why Children’s Books? [Katherine Rundell in The London Review of Books]

The It Books of February 2025

Every month on the Book Riot podcast, Rebecca Schinksy and I go through the top contenders for “it” book of the month and make our best guess about what it will be. Our record is 50/50ish I would say, but it’s always a fun and interesting exercise. Go listen to it here, or wherever you get your podcasts.