Lit Hub Daily: April 21, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1816, Charlotte Bronte is born.
- Jenny Minton Quigley on the 2025 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction winners (and three stories you can read right now!). | Lit Hub Criticism
- “There is no way to play three-dimensional chess with bigots.” Lydia Kiesling will not speak at an anti-trans university. | Lit Hub Politics
- “I am no soldier, but I see myself in uniform during the war / when buying bread, when sleeping, and when I get resurrected / after the latest news.” Read three poems by Nasser Rabah and a forward by Mosab Abu Toha from the collection Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece. | Lit Hub Poetry
- Sibila Petlevski considers language and the art of self-translation: “I have no pretension to speak on behalf of nature, but rather I let the green of the leaves speak for me.” | Lit Hub On Translation
- Elisha Cooper shares his creative routine and explains why “the odd alchemy of making art” works. | Lit Hub Craft
- “For us Indians, the feeling of coming-of-age—of becoming aware of the world around us and our place in it—can feel more like a dark initiation.” How a hockey childhood can lead to both camaraderie and exclusion. | Lit Hub Sports
- Ariel Gore recommends five books to read when your spouse is diagnosed with cancer, including work by Audre Lorde, Barbara Ehrenreich, Teva Harrison, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “He’s coloring a night sky on the underbelly of the kitchen table.” Read from Sarah Damoff’s new novel, The Bright Years. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Context is everything.” Nancy Naomi Carlson applies the idea of relative pitch to translation. | Poetry
- Rachel Monroe reports on what’s left of Outside. | The New Yorker
- “What do we hold fast, what do we let go?” On Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. | The Paris Review
- Philipp Schönthaler considers the meaninglessness of corporate storytelling. | MIT Press Reader
- Meena Venkataramanan profiles the writers expanding the South Asian American literary canon. | Electric Literature
- Ashwin Rodrigues explains why if everything hits different, nothing does. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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