Aarcflick

 For a long time, I theorized that newly published books that became bestsellers and were later adapted into films and television became famous thanks to people who don't actually read books. They probably saw the cover, read the synopsis, and thought it was outrageous enough to recommend it to people on social media. This was repeated often enough to propel a book to the top of the charts. Then, other authors wrote similar books to recreate the phenomenon.  And when that kind of superficial writing was validated by the "readers" and viewers of its adaptations, the BookTokification of literature and the audiovisual medium was complete—at least, that's what I had theorized. But then my assumptions about the state of media were somewhat confirmed by three things: Joshua Rothman's article in The New Yorker on the use of AI. To summarize entire books and call it "reading," Sabah Gurmat's Frontline article on the book adaptation process, from influencer t...