I met the oldest woman in the world—who shared her memories of Van Gogh in Arles.
ChatGPT
As noted, everybody seens to be talking about (and with) ChatGPT -- see, for example, now also John Naughton in The Observer, making the case that The ChatGPT bot is causing panic now -- but it'll soon be as mundane a tool as Excel, and Paul Taylor On ChatGPT in the London Review of Books.
ChatGPT is all the rage, as with it the potential for real-world applications of AI suddenly hits much closer to home for many people, especially those whose livelihoods depend, in some way, on reading and writing.
At Marginal Revolution Tyler Cowen has some interesting thoughts on GPT and my own career trajectory -- beginning with: "For any given output, I suspect fewer people will read my work".
Abdulrazak Gurnah Q & A
At Scroll.in Sayari Debnath has a Q & A with the Nobel laureate, in ‘The win makes time more precious’: Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Bestselling in the US in 2022
At Publishers Weekly Jim Milliot looks at what the bestselling books in the US in 2022 were, finding Colleen Hoover Was Queen of 2022's Bestseller List.
Helpfully, the top twenty-five sellers are listed with the number of copies sold (as counted by NPD BookScan). The top-selling title, Hoover's It Ends with Us, shifted 2,729,007 copieds; books by her also took the next two places, and she had six of the top ten titles. (Meanwhile, I have never seen one of her books ....)
I'm afraid I haven't reviewed any of the top twenty-five (and don't expect I ever will).