At The Reading List, we’re trainspotters when it comes to interesting book links, and here are a number that caught our eye.

• Taylor Swift will be referenced in the future in the same way people reference classic texts, according to the president of a university society dedicated to her.
• And also: Why Taylor Swift’s might upset the publishing industry.
• Susanna Clarke Wrote a Hit Novel Set in a Magical Realm. Then She Disappeared.
• Penguin Random House books now explicitly say ‘no’ to AI training.
• How George Orwell became a dead metaphor – on the use and abuse of one of Britain’s greatest writers.
• Is this new Le Carré novel even better than the master himself? The Telegraph says yes.
• Seven True Stories That Read Like Thrillers, courtesy of The Atlantic.
• Have you purchased a weirdly low-quality paperback book lately? This may be why.
• Nguyễn Bình Explores Edgar Allan Poe’s Influence on Vietnamese Literature.
• ‘It’s quite galling’: children’s authors frustrated by rise in celebrity-penned titles.
• Long-lost Bram Stoker story discovered in Dublin after 130 years.
• ‘I woke up and had the whole idea in my head’: returning to Area X with Jeff VanderMeer.
• A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending.
• As Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance campaigns across the country, his wife, Usha Vance, travels with her copy of The Iliad.
• Rachel Kushner Q&A: ‘Don’t ugly yourself in the face of ugliness.’

 

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