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Zeitgeist: Why AI Writes Better than You: It Reads Aristotle and You Don’t

Aug 25, 2026 | Promotion

“AI slop” critics take note: parallel structure and antithesis aren’t AI tics, they’re Aristotle’s rhetoric, still shaping language 2,300 years later.

AI Read Aristotle That’s Why It Writes Better Than You

Aug 25, 2026 | Author Update

Amazon is destroying rare books to train AI, an AI-writing tool beats detectors, author AI controversies grow, and Anthropic checks are delayed.

Zeitgeist: Clinical Pluralism: The Writing Technique That Trains Women to Excuse Evil

Aug 18, 2026 | Culture & Politics, Zeitgeist

Jonathan: I'm going to provide some context for what happened this week, which is the genesis of this zeitgeist idea. Lindsay Clancy was in the news, and there was a lot of arguing about it on social media. Allie Beth Stuckey jumped on the story, and it created a...

Barnes & Noble Just Banned the Front-Table Author Signing Nationwide

Aug 18, 2026 | Author Update

For Week Ending August 14, 2026 This week, Barnes & Noble dropped a corporate memo that ends the easy front-table book signing. A copyright lawsuit stretched four years and finished with a $3.4 million fee against the plaintiff. Claude is now stamping an invisible...

Zeitgeist: Why Gen Z Is Abandoning Hip-Hop Radio for Country Music

Aug 10, 2026 | Zeitgeist

Discover what the shift in music preferences signals and how to apply it to your writing and marketing.

AI Fiction Seizes 27.5% of KDP’s Genre Catalog

Aug 10, 2026 | Author Update

Libro.fm expands ebooks to 5,000 indie stores, while AI disrupts a $2 million book auction. HarperCollins grows 15%, Fable reaches 5 million users, and AI fiction nears 30% of Amazon’s genre catalog.