Rebecca and Vanessa discuss recent research that reveals surprising commonalities between 20,000 AI-generated stories, the winners of the Lambda Literary Awards and the Women's Prize for Fiction, and the most exciting 2027 book announcement so far.

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Discussed in this episode:

Kazuo Ishiguro wrote a WWII spy novel!

What 20,000 LLM-generated stories have in common

Google Play launches in-book AI chatbot

The Correspondent wins The Women’s Prize for Fiction

2026 Lambda Literary Award winners

Maggie Gyllenhaal to adapt Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake

The Love Hypothesis adaptation to hit Prime Video on Sept 23

Netflix is getting in on the horny hockey fun

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