Lit Hub Daily: April 30, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1859, Charles Dickens’ A Tale Of Two Cities is first serialized in literary periodical All the Year Round.
- Tobias Carroll explains what Elon Musk doesn’t understand about Iain M. Banks. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Zoe Roth examines Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams in the context of here and now. | Lit Hub History
- Don’t know what to watch next? Try some of the literary film and TV coming to streaming in May. | Lit Hub Film
- Katie Kitamura’s Audition, Diarmaid MacCulloch’s Lower Than the Angels, David Szalay’s Flesh, and Elaine Pagels’ Miracles and Wonder all feature among April’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
- “I was used to hearing human women slut-shamed; it was new to me that men would call cats sluts.” Courtney Gustafson explores casual misogyny in animal rescue. | Lit Hub Memoir
- From contrasts to complimentary colors, theses are April’s best book covers. | Lit Hub Design
- Get ready for paperbacks by Questlove, Tessa Hulls, and more in May! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- How London’s Great Plague of 1666 paved the way for modern scientific research: “Instead of cures, London’s medical men ultimately offered witness, up to the point of death.” | Lit Hub Health
- Our friends at AudioFile Magazine share their most anticipated May audiobooks. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “A series of details fell into place: the towel on the mirror, the strange words she’d uttered in her sleep, the content of her rant.” Read from Sarah Yahm’s new novel, Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation. | Lit Hub Fiction
- How The Great Gatsby became an American classroom staple. | The New Yorker
- Francis Northwood looks at the problematic business of the energy fueling AI. | The Baffler
- Jackie Snow on what she learned about reading while working at a books to prisons nonprofit: “The thousands of letters I’ve read since that first day in 2017 made me confront my own literary prejudices.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Sadie Stein remembers Jane Gardam, who has died at 96. | The New York Times
- Feroz Rather talks to novelist and poet Aria Aber about language, dislocation, and excess. | Public Books
- Natasha Lyonne is…making an AI film? | The Verge
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