TODAY: In 1836, Charles Dickens marries Catherine Hogarth at St. Luke’s Church in London. No one wanted AI-produced microdrama takes on Harlequin Romance titles , so why are we getting them? | Lit Hub Technology

Kelsey Rexroat investigates the super-readers who log hundreds of books a year . | Lit Hub Craft

Sarah Murray on Smart House and what the early years of AI reveal about the technology’s future. | Lit Hub Film

Jake Skeets’ TBR features books by Leslie Marmon Silko, Rex Lee Jim, Joan Naviyuk Kane, and more. | Lit Hub Criticism

“A proud belletrist, Koestenbaum shakes against narrative like a vibrator that switches on in its plastic packaging.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks

Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction . | Lit Hub Bookstores

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