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Joe Otterson TV ReporterShowrunner, playwright, and performer Rick Cleveland has signed with APA for representation, Variety has learned exclusively. Cleveland will continue to be represented by Rain as well as attorney Ken Richman at Hansen Jacobson TellerCleveland is a six-time Emmy nominee, winning the award for best writing for a drama series alongside Aaron Sorkin for the first season episode of “The West Wing” titled “In Excelsis Deo.” Cleveland was then nominated three times as part of the producing time on the hit HBO series “Six Feet Under” and again as part of the producing teams behind the Showtime series “Nurse Jackie” and the Netflix series “House of Cards.”Cleveland has also worked on a number of other critically-acclaimed shows.

In what may be a landmark case, the New York Times has sued Open AI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, saying the publication’s content is being by the platform to feed automated chatbots, constituting “unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works.”

FICTIONCrook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday), $29Ex-fence Ray Carney has sworn off a life of crime — until he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter. Two-time Pulitzer winner Whitehead presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of 1970s Harlem as Carney plunges into New York City’s seedy underbelly.The Exchange by John Grisham (Doubleday), $29.95In this sequel to the 1991 blockbuster “The Firm,” Grisham explores what became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they blew the whistle on the corruption and murder at the Memphis law firm that Mitch signed on to after law school.

Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin is one of a group of writers suing the makers of ChatGPT for “systematic theft on a mass scale”.The writers are concerned that the OpenAI artificial intelligence program is using their copyrighted work without legal permission.As Associated Press reports, other writers involved in the suit include the American novelists John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and Jonathan Franzen.In the papers filed Tuesday in federal court in New York, the collective alleged that there have been “flagrant and harmful infringements” of their registered copyrights and that ChatGPT relies upon “systematic theft on a mass scale”.“It is imperative that we stop this theft in its tracks or we will destroy our incredible literary culture, which feeds many other creative industries in the US,” said Mary Rasenberger, CEO of the Authors Guild, who have organised the lawsuit.“Great books are generally written by those who spend their careers and, indeed, their lives, learning and perfecting their crafts.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor OpenAI’s ChatGPT is the target of a major new lawsuit, alleging the company illegally copied the copyrighted works of authors to train the artificial-intelligence robot. Led by the Authors Guild, a New York-based professional organization for published writers, a group of 17 writers, including George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, George Saunders and Jonathan Franzen, joined the proposed class-action lawsuit against OpenAI.

George R.R. Martin is pursuing legal action alongside several famous authors.

The Authors Guild, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin, Michael Connelly, Jodi Picoult and a group of other famous fiction writers filed a class action lawsuit on Wednesday against OpenAI, claiming that their technology is infringing on their works.

Samuel L. Jackson is speaking out about another missed opportunity he had at winning an Oscar for one of his early films.

Doubleday will publish the sequel to John Grisham’s bestseller The Firm this fall. The new legal thriller, titled The Exchange: After The Firm, will mark the return of protagonist Mitch McDeere; publication dates is October 17.

Offering his take. James Patterson shared his thoughts on the publishing industry in a new interview, and his opinions raised plenty of eyebrows.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticElections, as everyone knows, are too important to be left up to chance, and so the world is constantly inventing ways to ensure their outcome in advance. In Egypt, when it comes to the choice of a new Grand Imam — a lifetime appointment, whose fatwas impact national law — the process doesn’t even pretend to be democratic: The successful candidate is selected from a small Supreme Council of Scholars, with considerations the outside world will never know.

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HARDCOVER FICTION1. “The Paris Apartment” by Lucy Foley (William Morrow)2. “One Italian Summer” by Rebecca Serle (Atria)3.

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1. “Red-Handed” by Peter Schweizer (Harper)2. “Reminders of Himby” by Colleen Hoover (Montlake)3.

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1. “Reminders of Him” by Colleen Hoover (Montlake)2. “Atomic Habits” by James Clear (Avery)3.

HARDCOVER FICTION1. “To Paradise” by Hanya Yanagihara (Doubleday)2. “The Horsewoman” by Patterson/Lupica (Little, Brown)3.

NEW YORK -- The publisher of such blockbusters as Dan Brown's “The Da Vinci Code” and John Grisham's “The Firm” has a memoir coming out next year.Stephen Rubin's “Words and Music: Confessions of an Optimist” will be published by Applause Books in January 2023.While running such publishers as Doubleday and Henry Holt & Company over the past 30-plus years, Rubin worked on some of the era's most talked about books, from “The Da Vinci Code” and “The Firm” to Michael Wolff's “Fire and Fury.” He also published Bill O'Reilly's million-selling “Killing” history series and the Booker Prize-winning British novelists Ian McEwan and Hilary Mantel.“This book will give you a march through trade publishing from the '80s through today,” Rubin, who left Henry Holt in 2020 and is currently a consulting publisher at Simon & Schuster, said Thursday.

Apple BooksUS Bestseller List - Paid BooksBook Title by Author Name - ISBN - (Publisher)1. End of Days by Brad Taylor - 9780062886125 - (William Morrow)2. The Summer Proposal by Vi Keeland - 9781951045623 - (C.

1. “Atomic Habits” by James Clear (Avery)2. “It Ends With Us” by Colleen Hoover (Atria Books)3.

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1. “It Ends With Us” by Colleen Hoover (Atria Books)2. “Wings of Fire Graphic Novel: The Brightest Night” by Tui T.

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1. “Atlas of the Heart” by Brene Brown (Random House)2. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot” by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books)3.

Book Title by Author Name - ISBN - (Publisher)1. State of Grace by Marie Force - 9781952793301 - (HTJB, Inc.)2.

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Book Title by Author Name - ISBN - (Publisher)1. The Judge’s List by John Grisham - 9780385546034 - (Knopf Doubleday2.

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