I just asked AI what the reading situation looks like this summer. I asked, knowing very well what it looks like, but I was curious what it would say. AI said that this summer, reading will resemble “flexible, engaging, often digital-forward activities designed to build skills.” Did it mistake my prompt for the ghosts of old school reading lists? It left out the part about naughty nannies and South Side popes and Comiskey Park and feuding Chicago neighbors and cults and Richard Pryor.Also, po’ boys and gossip and volcanoes and, yes, a Frankenstein AI run amok. Summer reading, every summer,...