AGP Executive Report
Last update: 11 hours agoLegal Drama in Hollywood: Blake Lively’s lawyers returned to a New York courtroom June 1, seeking legal bills and penalties from Justin Baldoni after a judge tossed his countersuit tied to claims of defamation and extortion. Memoir & Community Writing: Juda Bennett’s new novel-memoir, Qtopia: A Memoir of Love, Land, and Liberation (Univ. of Wisconsin Press), traces his escape from a military family into the back-to-the-land commune world. Reading as Culture War: A new essay argues doom-panics have long blamed novels for social breakdown, from Austen-era moral panic to today’s AI anxiety. AI, Mind, and the Brain: A review coins the “criticome,” mapping how early-life experience shapes brains through plasticity years, while a separate study reports deep brain stimulation can remodel white-matter pathways in depression. Publishing & Stage: Olga Tokarczuk short stories inspire a Polish theatre adaptation, and Netflix is moving forward with Anna Kendrick directing The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Science & Health (book-adjacent headlines): FDA approved Shionogi’s oral COVID-19 post-exposure drug XOCOVA; Alzheimer’s blood tests expand across Latin America; and portable PET tech aims to bring molecular imaging to bedside procedures.
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