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NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with children's author Susan Verde about her book "Body Beautiful"

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Academic and author Tom Bellamy, author of the book Smitten, explains how to recognize the signs of limerence, a romantic obsession characterized by extreme emotional highs and lows.

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3 w. ago In his new book, author Dan Brown tackles the ultimate mystery

Author Dan Brown is known for storylines that delve into myth and conspiracy theories. His new book — The Secret of Secrets — tackles the ultimate mystery: human consciousness.

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A federal judge has begun reviewing a landmark class-action settlement agreement between the artificial intelligence company Anthropic and book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.

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4 w. ago Anthropic to pay authors $1.5B to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot training material

The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay authors $3,000 per book in a landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material.

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4 w. ago AI firm Anthropic reaches landmark $1.5B copyright deal with book authors

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In a new book, co-authored by Dan Hurley, the UConn men's basketball head coach admitted the pursuit of a third straight national championship left him exhausted.

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last month Author Arundhati Roy discusses her new memoir 'Mother Mary Comes to Me'

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with acclaimed author Arundhati Roy about her new book "Mother Mary Comes to Me," her first major work of autobiography.

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