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There’s a lot more to Spotify than just music, including podcasts and audiobooks. Here’s how to buy audiobooks on Spotify. It’s no exaggeration to say that Spotify has completely changed...

Attending the Short Story Writing Club is a fun way to collaboratively brainstorm, write, and publish short stories. While the club is based on the simple topic of writing brief...

Except for brief moments of duress, I haven’t touched a keyboard for years. No fingers were tortured in producing these words — or the last half a million words of...

The Tokyo Tower of Sympathy is set in a futuristic version of Japan, where AI is a central part of everyday life.It centres around an architect who designs a comfortable...

Spotify Premium subscribers in the US can now access the streaming platform’s on-demand catalog of over 200,000 audiobooks, alongside 15 hours of listening each month for free. Ten hours of...

Out of the seven books nominated as finalists, the SEA Write Organising Committee, which included the seven judges, unanimously voted in favour of “Family Comes First”, a book of short...

More and more writers are using voice recognition software, which is constantly improving and even has an app for the iPhone. The novelist Richard Powers has explained his process of...

A Japanese author disclosed she used generative AI to write an award-winning novel, demonstrating the technology’s growing impact on culture. Rie Kudan, 33, announced at the Akutagawa Prize ceremony this...

Spotify has launched its audiobook perk for Premium subscribers in the U.S., offering access to more than 200,000 audiobooks — available for no extra charge, but limited to only about...

Alice Munro published more than a dozen collections of short stories and was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Photo: AFP Nobel Prize-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro,...