This week, we’re looking through trends, tools, and new words!

Warning: We do curse in this episode. We amuse the s*** out of each other.

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Notes:

• Friends clip of Phoebe getting sick and having a sexy voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXBOQAkrHAo

• The episode of Freakonomics on how horrible meetings are: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/season-9-episode-20

• New words from Dictionary.com: https://www.dictionary.com/e/new-dictionary-words-fall-2023/

• A viral roundup of famous nepo babies from Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/article/what-is-a-nepotism-baby.html

• Our episode on the rise of AI in digital media: https://youtu.be/icUnI1AgL1A

• Jordan Peterson adds another problematic thing to his list of problematic things: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/01/society-of-authors-calls-use-of-bad-reviews-for-book-blurbs-morally-questionable

• In our episode on the “fall” of English majors, we talked about a bookstore that was sticking it to haters by printing one-star reviews on t-shirts: https://youtu.be/T_UFw1qwsVc

• Read the article from Vulture that’s getting the bookish corners of the internet to roll their eyes: https://www.vulture.com/article/fanfic-romance-reylo-publishing-trend.html

• Elsewhere, Mashable rounds up some novels featuring social media: https://mashable.com/article/tech-fiction-books-novels-sillicon-valley-startups

• Millie Bobby Brown wrote a book. Or did she? https://todayinbooks.substack.com/p/millie-bobby-browns-novel-isnt-great

And if you have any funny publishing stories or meeting stories to share with us, please do! Email us at InkSinkPodcast@gmail.com.