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August 28, 2025
Today, we’re remembering CliffsNotes, exploring the connection between books and empathy, and more!
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“Somebody wrote an article online that shit talks Fidel.” Profiling the cyber soldiers who crush internet dissent in Cuba. | Lit Hub Technology
Huda Fakhreddine on Paul Celan and the necessity of Gaza to poetry: “If time must continue on its course after this, then it cannot but course toward a free Palestine.” | Lit Hub On Translation
As AI invades classrooms, Joelle Renstrom looks back on the most human of study guides, CliffsNotes. | Lit Hub Criticism
Maris Kreizman explains why books aren’t the solution to building empathy, but they definitely help: “We’re stuck in a moment when passive entertainment rules, when books are viewed by the ruling class as strictly utilitarian.” | Lit Hub Criticism
“Academia is a hellscape; Katabasis just makes it literal.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
Kelly Sundberg recommends titles to read for your new life by Saeed Jones, River Selby, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
What if all the ice on earth suddenly melted? “Everything about this epoch is superlative, bizarre, unprecedented.” | Lit Hub Climate Change
“They come under immediate assault from sandflies. Emil is beating them off his neck and shins the whole way, but it pleases him how well he manages the exertion.” Read from Olufemi Terry’s new novel, Wilderness of Mirrors. | Lit Hub Fiction
From around the internet:
A middle school teacher shares his strategy for engaging reluctant readers. | The Washington Post
“To remember is to risk punishment”: Sajad Hameed and Rehan Qayoom Mir report on India’s book ban in Kashmir. | Jacobin
Ahmad Almallah on the poetics of Palestine, American hypocrisy, and writing “between linguistic borderlands.” | Asymptote  
“I’ve since come to think of guilty pleasure only when I think about terrible beauty.” On the entwining legacies of climate change and family history in California. | Nautilus
Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth read “The Lifted Veil,” George Eliot’s angsty tale of emo telepathy. | Reactor
Tate McFadden interviews Sam Szabo about queer cartooning and comics history: “I always think about my creative process as being two channels in my brain. One is memoir and one is gags.” | The Comics Journal
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August 27, 2025
Today, we’re exploring solidarity, looking at reality TV in literature, learning about ice cream truck turf wars, and more!
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“When I first arrived in Belfast, I saw both Palestinian and Israeli flags, but in different neighborhoods—the Palestinian ones in Irish nationalist areas, and Israeli ones in Protestant loyalist areas.” On Northern Irish solidarity with Palestine. | Lit Hub Politics
Hannah Berman considers The Compound, Small Game, and what literary depictions of reality TV teach us about the ethics of the edit. | Lit Hub Criticism
Sahar Mustafah on how the ADL has “rigorously weaponized Jewish victimhood in order to foment fear” in American classrooms. | Lit Hub Politics
Glory Edim explores Jessie Redmon’s literary legacy and her forgotten novel, Plum Bun. | Lit Hub Biography
Peter Mishler talks to poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney about maximalism, unexpected audiences, and her collection Joy Is My Middle Name. | Lit Hub In Conversation
Examining settler colonialism, the illusion of progress, and what actually resulted from the Oslo Accords. | Lit Hub History
On the legacy of Eleanor Bumpurs, murdered by the NYPD for resisting eviction: “Gender and femininity have never shielded Black women and girls from unfettered anti-Blackness or police violence.” | Lit Hub Politics
Amanda Uhle explains using “a consummate image of my childhood self” as the cover of a memoir. | Lit Hub Memoir
“The big glass pyramid amused Mona.” Read from Thomas Schlesser’s novel Mona’s Eyes, translated by Hildegarde Serle. | Lit Hub Fiction
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“There is a kind of Lockwood lens that brings into focus the improbable and hilariously bizarre features lurking in the midst of ordinary life, which a different writer might prefer to smooth over for realism’s sake.” Alexandra Schwartz profiles Patricia Lockwood. | The New Yorker
Jonathan Karp is stepping down as the C.E.O. of Simon & Schuster. | The New York Times
On Betar, Canary Mission, and the practice of doxxing students and faculty who engage in Pro-Palestine actions on university campuses. | The Baffler
Hannah Weber on creativity, AI, and Hamid Ismailov’s We Computers. | Words Without Borders
From turf wars to ephemeral treats, Olivia Potts looks at the very weird history of ice cream trucks. | Longreads
Anthropic has settled its AI piracy lawsuit. | The Verge
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August 26, 2025
Today, we’re exploring wedding singers, memoir controversies, ancient forms of writing, and more!
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Writing someone else’s autofiction: how novelist David Levithan fictionalized musician Jens Lekman’s side hustle as a… wedding singer. | Lit Hub
Polly Atkin on nature writing, chronic illness, and the controversy surrounding Raynor Winn’s memoir, The Salt Path. | Lit Hub Memoir
“My mother came back. Which was good, since my father was about done with me.” Read “Intercom,” a prose poem by Richard Siken from the collection I Do Know Some Things. | Lit Hub Poetry
Nick Foster explains why it’s difficult to look towards the future without looking to science fiction. | Lit Hub Criticism
What ancient sales receipts can teach us about humanity’s earliest form of writing. | Lit Hub History
The 17 new books out today include titles by Helen Oyeyemi, André Breton, Richard Siken, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
“While many English readers may be quick to assume that Tsujimura’s novels are meant to heal, the word most often used to describe her work in Japan is sasaru. It means stab, sting, turn a knife in my heart.” Yuki Tejima on translation as an act of sharing. | Lit Hub On Translation
Elaine Hsieh Chou discusses literary community, the search for open space, and experiences of multiple realities. | Lit Hub In Conversation
“A street ran by the house where she was staying in Phoenix, the house where she lived, the house where Eve and Al were paying ‘good money’ for her to be.” Read from Paula Saunders’s novel, Starting From Here. | Lit Hub Fiction
From around the internet:
Sloan Crosley dives into the bewildering world of celebrity children’s books. | The New Yorker
“Alice survived in and because of poetry. That, and love.” Nick Sturm remembers Alice Notley. | Poetry
Is the literary industrial complex worth the cash? On the scam of ‘luxury’ writing retreats. | Slate
Victoria Song struggles to understand why generative AI tools are necessary for journaling. | The Verge
How Constantine Cavafy became poetry’s original influencer. | The New Republic
Riley MacLeod recaps New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s scavenger hunt. | Aftermath
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If you loved Weapons as much as we did, you should add these books to your TBR.
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August 25, 2025
Today, Ahmed Dader writes about surviving famine and massacre in Gaza, Richard Siken talks about line breaks, Sheila Heti gets sincere, and more.
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Ahmed Dader describes the horrors of surviving the Flour Massacre in Gaza: “I will need years for the scenes of that night to fade in my memory.” | Lit Hub Memoir
Richard Siken talks to Poets.org about his new collection, I Do Know Some Things, and the line break as “the most fundamental poetic device.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
How Jane Bowles’ Two Serious Ladies influenced Sheila Heti to write (and live) sincerely. | Lit Hub Criticism
“There are many ways to reflect on the United States before and after colonization, but few people do so exclusively in terms of fire.” How River Selby unexpectedly became a wildland firefighter. | Lit Hub Nature
Nicholas Boggs talks to Danté Stewart about his new biography of James Baldwin: “We need his perspective through the lens of love right now, because hate, obviously, is everywhere.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
Jamie Lee Searle reflects on the rich challenges of translating genre and gender blurring in Kim de l’Horizon’s Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues. | Lit Hub On Translation
“It was one of those things we couldn’t say to one another. I had told Father, Father had told Mother, Mother must have told you.” Read from Kim de l’Horizon’s debut novel Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues, translated by Jamie Lee Searle. | Lit Hub Fiction
From around the internet:
“I think it’s important to remember how important Black women were to him.” Kaitlyn Greenidge talks to Nicholas Boggs and Jessica B. Harris about James Baldwin’s lovers and friends. | Harper’s Bazaar
Jon Allsop proposes the Moomins as “an antidote to the toxicity of much modern internet discourse.” | The New Yorker
H.M.A. Leow explores how Western travel writing doubled as propaganda during the Second Sino-Japanese War. | JSTOR Daily
Gordon Marino examines the philosophy of boxing. | The Point
“Designers built gadgets for the innovation class, while residents of Flint, Michigan, drank poisoned water.” How Americans soured on the idea of innovation. | The MIT Press Reader
Luisa Suad Bocconcelli recommends nine recent books by women writers from the Maghreb and its diaspora. | Words Without Borders
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August 22, 2025
Today, the Lit Hub Podcast gets nice, a grifter does fascist yoga, we round up the best reviewed books of the week, and more!
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This week, the Lit Hub Podcast features Brittany Allen, Drew Broussard, Fiction/Non/Fiction, and a phone call from Maggie Smith! | Lit Hub Radio
Ginny Hogan on retro tech novels for “those of us who feel like digital natives, but still remember a time before the internet.” | Lit Hub Criticism
Stewart Home on Major J. F. C. Fuller, the occultist grifter who infused yoga with fascism. | Lit Hub Politics
“I’ve been writing stories for a younger version of myself who didn’t see any trace of that Persian part of me reflected anywhere.” Ryan Bani Tahmaseb considers Persian stories, identity, and the US-Iran divide. | Lit Hub History
Nicholas Boggs’ Baldwin: A Love Story, Elaine Hsieh Chou’s Where Are You Really From, and Bench Ansfield’s Born in Flames all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
Nancy Reddy explains how to trace the plot of your own life: “The most moving memoirs are the ones in which you see someone transformed.” | Lit Hub Craft
How America’s frontier mythology contributed to the development of a national identity. | Lit Hub History
From around the internet:
“I saw what I saw and / I smelled pomegranates from the next street over / but it was only my imagination”. Read work by three Palestinian student poets. | n+1
Maria Papadouris traces the evolution of the library. | JSTOR Daily
In an attempt to fight a growing “reading crisis,” Denmark will remove the 25 percent VAT tax on books. | The New York Times
Harley Rustad attempts to get to the bottom of a mysterious fast food whodunnit. | Toronto Life
“There is not a great verb to describe what we were doing on the overcast beach just as high tide began to lap against the shore.” Grace Byron explores her obsession with horseshoe crabs. | The Paris Review
Wikipedia editors are going head-to-head with the site’s founder over the use of AI. | 404 Media
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August 21, 2025
Today, we’re dishing out some literary advice, looking back on 20 years of Beasts of No Nation, exploring the history of lesbian pulp novels, and more!
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Katie Kitamura revisits Beasts of No Nation after 20 years: “There is never the benefit of hindsight, the reassurance of a given outcome, or anything other than the rapidly fading innocence of a child.” | Lit Hub Craft
Trish Bendix explores the history of lesbian pulp, and how queer writers and readers carry its legacy into the present. | Lit Hub Criticism
Is it wrong to cheat on your literary novel with a secret (and fun) fantasy project? Kristen Arnett answers this and other burning questions. | Lit Hub
Yet even though she shared Eleni’s name, it wasn’t until Eleni’s smiling face appeared on the presentation screen that I comprehended that this scholar was my aunt.” Natalie Bakapoulos shares lessons from discovering her family’s place in queer Greek literature and activism. | Lit Hub Memoir
But the women themselves lovingly called the bags in which they carried their uniforms “‘freedom bags.’” How Black women used purses at the service of civil rights. | Lit Hub History
“These and 11 other pieces ventriloquize a chorus of white American grotesques across the sociopolitical spectrum.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
Khadijah Queen’s TBR features Linda Hogan, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Sinclair Lewis, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
“By the end of her climb her thighs cramped, her left foot ached, and Grandma Blue was an angry bull.” Read from Antonio Michael Downing’s debut novel, Black Cherokee. | Lit Hub Fiction
From around the internet:
Elissa Altman looks back on her lifelong love affair with guitars. | The Bitter Southerner
“The ur-loneliness is at the heart of Airless Spaces. Mental illness is the metaphor of choice, but the author has something more encompassing on her mind.” Vivian Gornick considers Shulamith Firestone’s life and work. | Boston Review
Rebecca Mead explores the reemergence of Sally Carson’s 1934 novel, Crooked Cross, and its relevance alongside the rise of global fascism. | The New Yorker
“Accusations of terrorism are automatically serious because our capacity for terror is intrinsic.” On Palestine Action and how governments weaponize proscription against activists. | The Baffler
Why typos have become “a reassuring sign of human authorship.” | Slate
Rhoda Kwan examines two newly translated novels that document grief and pain in China’s past. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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You’ve heard of hot girl summer, but are you ready for reissued classics autumn?
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August 20, 2025
Today, Ilya Kaminsky remembers how he discovered poetry, we uncover the origins of Drew Barrymore’s iconic scream in Scream, the history of a certain marmalade-loving bear from “darkest Peru” is revealed, and more!
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Ilya Kaminsky remembers discovering poetry as deaf child in Ukraine: “The language of poetry speaks to all our senses… It can speak, privately, to all of us. It is visceral.” | Lit Hub Memoir
“When a movie catches you by surprise the way the opening sequence of Scream does, it leaves a mark.” The real tears (and hyperventilating) behind the first scene in Wes Craven’s iconic slasher flick. | Lit Hub Film
Garrett M. Graff chronicles an oral history of what the United States tried to cover up after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. | Lit Hub History
“London will not have forgotten how to treat a stranger.” A history of Paddington Bear, the fluffiest refugee in children’s lit. | Lit Hub Criticism
How transcendental style in Paul Schrader’s First Reformed helps us imagine an unimaginable future in the face of climate catastrophe. | Lit Hub Film
On crossing the Atlantic aboard the RMS Scythia and the beginning of America’s preparations for entering World War II. | Lit Hub History
Ellen Wohl explores how measuring “flood fingerprints” can help us get ready for future flood disasters. | Lit Hub Climate Change
“The last thing I did after every cleaning was dust my kids’ baby pictures.” Read from Addie E. Citchens’ new novel, Dominion. | Lit Hub Fiction
From around the internet:
“I watch the innumerable ways I can continue to move through something as deceptively simple as a rectangle divided into equal parts.” Diana Arterian describes the pleasures of lap-swimming at a bargain gym in East LA. | Poetry
Karim Kattan discusses Palestinian literature and explores the “recurring nightmare” of occupation through the genre of horror. | The Dial
“The sense of conversation between artists, the sense of traditions and ongoing dialogue, has become central to how I think of literature and a source of inspiration for my own work.” Lincoln Michel puts forth the “Grand Ballroom Theory of Literature.” | Counter Craft
“Then she asked me if I’d ever heard about the space-time worm. I had not.” Hua Hsu profiles R.F. Kuang. | The New Yorker
The adult children of right wing parents want to deradicalize their loved ones through the power of book clubs. | Wired
Alex Dueben and others remember underground comix pioneer Hurricane Nancy. | The Comics Journal
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“Since its foundation in 2020, Palestine Action has primarily organised direct-action protests against weapons manufacturers: defacing buildings, breaking windows and occupying factories. This summer, as the UK continued to offer material and diplomatic support for the ongoing genocide in Gaza, activists broke into an RAF airbase and used spray-paint to vandalise two aircraft. The Government responded by proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, placing the group on the same legal footing as al-Qaeda and Islamic State. The group’s cofounder, Huda Ammori, is now rightly fighting this designation in the courts, but in the meantime, any expression of support for Palestine Action, even a simple placard or T-shirt, constitutes a serious terror offence under UK law.”
Sally Rooney could be “arrested without a warrant as a ‘terrorist’” in the UK for her support of Palestine Action. This follows the arrest of poet Alice Oswald after she held a sign in support of the movement at a sit-down demonstration.
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August 19, 2025
Today, we’re going dark academia, reading early Octavia Butler, contemplating careers in clowning, and more!
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“She became fascinated with how human beings—especially those who didn’t have much power—could empower themselves and others and change the world.” What Octavia Butler’s early writings reveal about her trajectory as a literary icon. | Lit Hub Biography
Charlie Jane Anders explains just how much dark academia owes to A.S. Byatt’s Possession. | Lit Hub Criticism
The 20 new books out today include titles about Octavia Butler, James Baldwin, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
“Are poets useful?” Raymond Antrobus on deafness, writing, and finding a purpose. | Lit Hub Memoir
River Selby talks to Jane Ciabattari about fighting fires, sending messages to her past self, and writing trauma in memoir. | Lit Hub In Conversation
“Horses were a part of the daily fabric of life for many enslaved Black people.” On the importance of the horse in escaping slavery. | Lit Hub History
Zhang Yueran on how her family’s nanny inspired her novel, Women, Seated: “I knew that Jiao might leave us someday.” | Lit Hub Craft
“The mass of all Ruth knew was a dot in the void.” Read from Kate Riley’s new novel, Ruth. | Lit Hub Fiction
From around the internet:
Vivian Gornick considers “the solipsism of low self-esteem… So inexplicable is its grip, so binding its influence, it can feel almost mythic.” | The New Yorker
Angelina Mazza makes the case for the unexpected pleasures of a “merciless hellscape overrun by petty, perpetually aggrieved readers,” Goodreads. | Slate
“When Richard and I hit the Play button on Kanopy, I didn’t know we were in store for a work of art as tender as it is beautiful.” Laurie Stone rewatches Paper Moon. | The Paris Review
Han Zhang on exposing American readers to Chinese literary fiction and challenging fixed perceptions of Chinese books. | NPR
April White explores efforts to archive the life and career of Lulu Adams, clown extraordinaire. | JSTOR Daily 
How a group of Michigan parents fought back against right-wing activists in their school district. | The New Republic
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August 18, 2025
Today, we’re looking at Israel’s attack on Tehran, the impact of nuclear war on art and literature, translating iconic Indian fiction, and more.
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“I am searching for that state just before individual languages are dismantled—freed from their meanings and finally annihilated.” Yoko Tawada considers language as a destabilizing force. | Lit Hub Memoir
Neda Maghbouleh responds to living amid deportations, ICE seizures, and Israel’s attack on Tehran. | Lit Hub Politics
Ed Simon on Hiroshima at 80 and the enduring impact of the atomic bomb on creative production. | Lit Hub History
Priyamvada Ramkumar on the significance of dialect, Tamil literature, and bringing Jeyamohan’s Stories of the True to English-speaking readers. | Lit Hub On Translation
“Most writers need day jobs. But I fled to mine when I believed I could never be a writer at all.” Nalini Jones on how working in music helped her write a novel. | Lit Hub Craft
Akwaeke Emezi considers the making of beauty (and the beauty of nothing). | Lit Hub Memoir
What can Aztec philosophy teach us about finding happiness? “With the pursuit of happiness comes the pursuit of its opposite.” | Lit Hub History
“Should you wish to witness man’s depravity, like a daily slap in the face, you must come to the forest.” Read from Jeyamohan’s collection, Stories of the True. | Lit Hub Fiction
From around the internet:
Matt McManus tries to make sense of Cormac McCarthy’s politics. | Jacobin
Chris Smalls talks to Ella Fanger about solidarity between Palestine and American labor movements, the Freedom Flotilla, and his experience in Israeli prison. | The Nation
“Those people are doing something completely different than you are trying to do.” Lincoln Michel reminds us of the power of working on your work, even in a sea of AI slop. | Counter Craft
Jiménez Enoa tells the story of La Bolita, Cuba’s wildly popular—and illegal—daily lottery, and its cartel-like underground administration  (translated by Lily Meyer). | Words Without Borders
Angelina Eimannsberger asks if the internet has delivered us into a golden age of reading. | Public Books
“Igno-fiction does not lionize human civilization in our present moment. It understands how small a field of vision this offers, and rejects that self-imposed limitation on prose.” Greta Rainbow speculates about the next great literary movement. | Dirt
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August 15, 2025
Today, we’re burning it down on the Lit Hub Podcast, getting scandalized by art world drama, wondering why everyone’s suddenly scouring the internet for 4K Blu-Ray copies of Master and Commander, and more!
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This week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Publishers Marketplace 101, Maris Kreizman burns it down, and more! | Lit Hub Radio
“Everybody says they care and want to help. Does anybody really care?” Carole Hinojosa on addiction, motherhood, and advocating for people whose experiences she understands intimately. | Lit Hub Memoir
Orlando Whitfield recounts a tale of friendship, deceit, and the seedy lows of high art. | Lit Hub Art
Olia Hercules remembers the sacred legacies of family, ghosts, and sour cherries in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. | Lit Hub Memoir
Peter Orner’s The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter, Caleb Gayle’s Black Moses, and Emily Adrian’s Seduction Theory all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
“Touching grass” isn’t just a comment section cliché—we should all probably go outside. | Lit Hub Nature
Read “Old Song,” a poem by Nima Hasan with translator’s notes by Huda Fakhreddine: “A real poem is never only of the moment. A real poem defeats time, every time.” | Lit Hub Poetry
“Often, readers noted how the novel leaned into the interiority of my characters via other senses…” Yiming Ma explains the benefits of writing blind.| Lit Hub Craft
“Let’s start at the urinal.” Read from David Levithan and Jens Lekman’s new novel, Songs for Other People’s Weddings. | Lit Hub Fiction
From around the internet:
Eighty years after the atomic bomb, Rachel Greenley contemplates narrative, omission, and the ethics of turning life into art. | Orion
“Freedom is neither a fixed idea nor a story of progress toward a predetermined goal.” Eric Foner reflects on his education as a historian. | The Nation
Laura Miller explores how Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny took over TikTok (and the bestseller list). | Slate
On the tragedy of Jumbo the Elephant, Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear, and Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil. | The Paris Review
Nolan Kelly watches two cinematic adaptations of Sigrid Nunez novels: “Of course, you have to cast someone.”  | Los Angeles Review of Books
People are scrambling to buy 4K Blu-Ray copies of Master and Commander. | 404 Media
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August 14, 2025
Today, we’re reliving James Schuyler’s first public reading, rolling our eyes at those Supreme Court book deals, remembering Anas Al-Sharif, and more.
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How James Schuyler’s first public reading brought out poets from every corner of New York for an unforgettable night. | Lit Hub Biography
Maris Kreizman wonders: If everyone on the Supreme Court is getting seven-figure book deals, who will be left to judge publishing-related cases? | Lit Hub
“One common thread among stories of islanders, both voluntary and coerced, is this: good luck getting free of them.” Emma Sloley considers the dark allure of writing about islands. | Lit Hub Craft
Michael Thomas explores family legacies, Black fatherhood, and the dreams and fears of parenting. | Lit Hub Memoir
“The author is a professional contrarian, which pretty much means she can bounce off others to naysay whenever so moved.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
Jason Mott Navigates the demands of fiction and nonfiction while searching for the best way to tell the story of America. | Lit Hub Craft
Joanna Pocock retraces her journey traversing the physical and memory landscape of North America. | Lit Hub Travel
“Is this the longest or shortest century? Look into your human detonation.” Read “Blood Moon,” a prose poem by Anne Waldman from the collection Mesopotopia. | Lit Hub Poetry
“The nursing home on Waukegan Road, next to the old Sara Lee cake factory. The place is called Sunshine or Sunrise. I can’t keep it straight.” Read from Peter Orner’s new novel, The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter. | Lit Hub Fiction
From around the internet:
“A chasm that those who have crossed must spend the rest of their lives coming to terms with”: Aaron Labaree considers the genre of class transition in books by Claire Baglin, Annie Ernaux, and Éduoard Louis. | Public Books
Anne Lamott talks to Pamela Alma Weymouth about hope, the pain that leads to change, and “action as a verb.” | The Nation
Rose B. Simpson writes against the potential defunding of the Institute of American Indian Arts, a “precious and influential resource.” | Hyperallergic
Ali Ghanim, a pseudonymous Palestinian journalist living in the US, remembers Anas Al-Sharif as a friend. | The Intercept
“If we are to reimagine the literary world beyond treating otherness as trend, beyond commodifying Black pain and trauma, we must refuse to mistake representation and visibility for liberation and power.” Why African literary ecosystems should reclaim the idea of local writing. | Semafor
Devon Brody on writing books in The Sims. | The Paris Review
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Many of our best writers have played the fake name game. Call it what you will—an alias, a pseudonym. But from Samuel Clemens to She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, we can find a gamut of wily writers determined to evade the postman. Or possibly, the IRS.
Can you match the writer to their pseudonym? How well do you know your heroes?
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“This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice.”
The Israel Defense Forces bombed a journalists’ tent outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. The strike killed seven people, including Al Jazeera journalists Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa.
This is Anas al-Sharif’s final message.
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“For years, Boyne has made himself unpopular over his comments about the trans community. Most egregiously, he published an article in the Irish Independent this year wishing J.K. Rowling a happy birthday, saying ‘as a fellow Terf, I stand four-square behind her.’”
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