Kirsten Menger-Anderson

Jason Koebler for 404 Media: "AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge"

“Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another” - Maggie Tokuda-Hall

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Writers and AI use. The number for "thought leadership" content is particularly striking:

"The report found that the heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%), PR/comms professionals (73%), and content marketing writers (73%). Excluding fiction authors, the writing professionals […]

Looking for a new ebook? My novel THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS is on sale now! Just 1.99, wherever you buy ebooks.

"In this 'appealing intellectual mystery' (Publishers Weekly) spanning continents, Hase knows exactly what to do when her dad goes missing: Go to the library, find a specific […]

More on school book bans from Kelly Jensen for BookRiot:

"There are now 19 books prohibited in any Utah public school. Of them, 16 are written by women, and their average publication date is 2011. This means that most of these books have been on shelves and available for many years and caused […]

“It’s devastating for us to know that these kids who put in hundreds of hours of hard work had that torn away from them because of the objections of a single parent,” says Picoult... "I had 20 books banned in one school district in Florida alone because of a single parent’s objection and she […]

As a writer, I believe in preserving stories. This is one we cannot afford to forget. My latest blog:

The East Wing Is Gone — And So Is the Lie That It Wouldn’t Be https://sharonecathcart.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/the-east-wing-is-gone-and-so-is-the-lie-that-it-wouldnt-be/

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"Originality.ai, which offers its tools to universities and businesses, says it scanned 558 titles published in Amazon’s herbal remedies subcategory between January and September this year, and found 82% of the books “were likely written” by AI.... At least 29 of the apparently AI-generated […]

City Lights

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/sf-business-hangs-protest-banners-fed-agents-sent-21114905.php

Sign from the No Kings protest in San Francisco, reading "Parasites 101: Deer Tick, Dog Tick, Luna Tick" with pictures of ticks and trump

Photo from No Kings in SF of the Warfield Theatre marquee reading "NO KNGS"

Photo from SF No Kings, of three people in inflatable chicken outfits

Sign from No Kings in San Francisco reading "Democracy needs your courage" with 'our rage' in red and the rest of the letters in black.

No Kings, SF!

Great turnout today in San Francisco. The Chronicle is reporting 50k, (which makes it larger than the June protest).

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/no-kings-protests-live-updates-21100766.php

"In what intellectual freedom advocates have seen coming for months, a Texas school district has just shut down access to all secondary school libraries for students due to the regulations of the state’s Senate Bill 13... The district also offers no timeline for when students will have access to […]

"The steering committee elected to remove eight [of the 20] books from the list, not only narrowing the breadth of titles being discussed by teens across the state, but also narrowing the number of books they will be reading in anticipation of voting for the Georgia Peach Book Awards... All of […]

Anthropic Settlement: What Authors Should Know

A free webinar hosted by the Authors Guild
Thursday, October 16, 2025 - 6:00 pm Eastern

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https://authorsguild.org/event/anthropic-settlement-what-authors-should-know/

New report from PEN America: The Normalization of Book Banning (published Oct 1, 2025)

"In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country […]

Artists Shouldn’t Need to Become Content Creators to Get Fair Pay - Electric Literature Under capitalism, those of us who want a career in the arts feel pressured to sell ourselves. But making art and marketing it are very different skills

Great piece by Ilana Masad on making art and marketing it:

#books #booksky #writing #writersofmastodon #WritingCommunity #bookstodon @bookstodon

https://electricliterature.com/artists-shouldnt-need-to-become-content-creators-to-get-fair-pay/

"According to two district sources, AI was used to measure instructional texts against a rubric that took into account “DEI content.” The books must be removed from all classrooms, and cannot be used as instructional resources—either as texts read in class or as choice books in classroom […]

Guests celebrating Kepler's Books 70th birthday in front of the shop in Menlo Park. Seated guest on grass in foreground. Others stand under white tents closer to the shop.

Poster reading "You're Invited. Kepler's Turns 70! Block Party Saturday Sept 20"

Happy 70th birthday to Kepler's Books! Thanks for seven decades of curating books & bold ideas!

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"President Trump’s defamation lawsuit against Penguin Random House and The New York Times—and by extension against a free and independent press—underscores his dangerous pattern of seeking to punish any publisher that questions his narrative in hopes of draining financial resources, instilling […]

"The whole idea of this book I find very fascinating, because it very clearly is the author looking to make a fictionalized version of something that really happened in real life, and also something that's really close to her family."

Hosts Margaret Kelly and Katie Roarty discuss The Expert of […]

In 1967, Jefferson Airplane released “White Rabbit,” inspired by Lewis Carroll's novel Alice in Wonderland. Fifty-eight years later, a NEW fiction/music/rabbit song has arrived!

"higher rabbit," inspired by my novel, THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS, was released today on Critics Darling's debut […]

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Have you read this from PEN? https://pen.org/report/beyond-the-shelves/#heading-1

"This wave of book bans follows a recent censorship campaign launched by the Florida Department of Education against Hillsborough County, which led to the removal of over 600 titles from school library shelves pending review in May with no public input. These titles had no challenges filed […]

The Expert of Subtle Revisions - Wikipedia

My new favorite Wikipedia page :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Expert_of_Subtle_Revisions

From the Freedom to Read Project: Debunking the Myths: Responding to the Most Common Arguments for Book Censorship

"Book censorship arguments often disguise efforts to erase diverse voices. Responding with facts, empathy, and First Amendment values helps protect everyone’s right to read."

"The […]

Photo from Kepler's Story is the Thing series. Pictured from left to right: J E Weiner with her novel The Wretched and Undone, Kirsten Menger-Anderson with The Expert of Subtle Revisions, Kate Folk with Sky Daddy, Kyle Edwards with Small Ceremonies.

Happy to have taken part in last night's STORY IS THE THING reading series at Kepler's Books. Pictured from left to right:

J E Weiner with her novel The Wretched and Undone, a multi-generational ghost story set in Texas, which I was fascinated to learn was […]

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Great to see THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS included in the latest issue of the Haverford College magazine!

"Deemed 'an appealing intellectual mystery' by Publishers Weekly and featured in the Washington Posts's notable books for March, The Expert of Subtle Revisions plumbs the complexities of […]

I'm looking forward to reading at Kepler's "Story is the Thing" series on Thursday, July 17! I'll be reading with Kyle Edwards, Kate Folk, Beena Kamlani, and J. E. Weiner:

6:30 - Reception with the authors
7:00 - Readings, discussion, and Q&A

Tickets are free, but please RSVP on the Kepler's […]

A photograph of Kirsten Menger-Anderson's novel THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS placed beside two novels by Rudolf Brunngraber, included in the exhibition "Wien und die Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung: Orte des Wiener Kreises" Photograph by Elisabeth Preininger, Vienna, Austria.

And I'll end with one of my favorite shots, my novel THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS placed beside two by Rudolf Brunngraber that are part of the exhibition. Many thanks to Elisabeth Preininger for taking these photographs and sharing them with me! "Wien und die […]

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A brief biography of Karl Menger from the exhibition "Wien und die Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung: Orte des Wiener Kreises" Photograph by Elisabeth Preininger, Vienna, Austria.

The exhibition includes a brief biography of my grandfather along with biographies for other members of the Vienna Circle. Photograph by Elisabeth Preininger, Vienna, Austria.

#writing #history #libraries #books #bucher #lesen #bücher #romane
#bibliothek #vienna

Curators copy from the exhibition "Wien und die Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung: Orte des Wiener Kreises" Photograph by Elisabeth Preininger, Vienna, Austria." in both English and German. In English, the copy reads "Under the pseudonym Prof Austria's, philosopher Johannes Sauter blamed Schlick himself for his murder in a Catholic weekly. With his anti-metaphysical philosophy, he had violated Christian-German values and stirred up the student youth. A parallel to Socrates comes to mind"

German Nationalists were prevalent in the faculty of the University of Vienna in my grandfather's time there. One professor, Johannes Sauter, under the pseudonym ‘Prof. Autriacus’ even went so far as to (grotesquely) blame Professor Schlick for his own murder […]

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A photograph of Karl Menger's resignation letter to the University of Vienna. From the exhibition "Wien und die Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung: Orte des Wiener Kreises" Photograph by Elisabeth Preininger, Vienna, Austria.

The exhibition includes my grandfather's resignation letter to the University of Vienna. He came to the United States not long after the leader of the Vienna Circle, Moritz Schick, was murdered. His resignation letter was sent from the US. Photograph by Elisabeth […]

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