The Latest Breaking News from Mona Awad

Mona Awad Has a Thing for "Dark Enchantment" Books—Here’s What She's Reading

The 'We Love You, Bunny' author has a thing for books about "dark enchantment."

Marie Claire · Sep 23, 2025

We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad review – a delicious follow-up to Bunny

Scabrous satire drives this camp, goofy sequel about a cabal of writing students at an Ivy league university – its hot-boyfriend golems are adorable

The Guardian - UK · Sep 15, 2025

Bunny author Mona Awad: ‘I’m a dark-minded soul’

The author’s surreal, satirical breakout novel won her awards and tattooed superfans. As she releases a follow-up, she talks about growing up as an outsider – and the best advice she received from Margaret Atwood

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2025

Rouge by Mona Awad review – a modern fairytale

This beauty industry satire from the author of Bunny explores buried trauma, the tyranny of wellness and mother-daughter relationships

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2023

9,000 authors rebuke AI companies, saying they exploited books as 'food' for chatbots

More than 9,000 authors are calling out the tech companies behind generative AI in an open letter that states there is an inherent injustice in exploiting copyright-protected works to train chatbots without consent, credit or compensation.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 20, 2023

Authors call for AI companies to stop using their work without consent

Margaret Atwood, Viet Thanh Nguyen and 8,000 others have signed an open letter asking that permission is obtained and compensation given when a writer’s work is used by AI

The Guardian - UK · Jul 20, 2023

Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta

Authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey join Silverman in the lawsuit

Salon · Jul 10, 2023

Meta and OpenAI face lawsuits from comedian Sarah Silverman and authors

Sarah Silverman and authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden have launched a lawsuit against OpenAI and Meta.

Fortune · Jul 10, 2023

AI has yet to produce a masterpiece, but after sucking our souls dry it may yet

With authors claiming OpenAI breached their copyright by ‘ingesting’ their books, an experiment seemed in order. It didn’t go well

The Guardian - UK · Jul 8, 2023

Two authors are suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT with their books. Could they win?

Imagine you read a book. You commit details of the book to memory and ruminate on the ideas contained in it.

The Conversation · Jul 6, 2023