Lit Hub Daily: April 7, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1815, Lord Byron and Walter Scott meet for the first time in the offices of publisher John Murray.
- Eleanor Lanahan reflects on the literary legacy of The Great Gatsby, her grandfather’s timeless novel, as it turns 100. | Lit Hub Biography
- “The goal is not to tell the reader the facts as they happened, but to, hopefully, bring a bunch of sentences and paragraphs to imagistic life.” Lynn Steger Strong on imaginative truth. | Lit Hub Craft
- Evelyn McDonnell on feminism, family, and five takeaways from the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne papers. | Lit Hub Biography
- What Toni Morrison’s fiction taught Bridgett M. Davis about writing memoir: “I’ve learned as a memoirist to construct worlds that careful excavation implies.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Alia Hanna Habib and Emily Mahon discuss the nuance of creating the perfect book cover. | Lit Hub Design
- “I spent the first decade of my life trying to summon my mother’s attention, and she has spent the last decade of hers trying to summon mine.” Fate, grief and the slow disintegration of a family in Zimbabwe. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Camille Aubray recommends retellings of The Great Gatsby by Allyson Reedy, Nghi Vo, Jillian Cantor, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “When we fall in love, and even if we stay in love, we can already taste the lonely void that the end of love will bring.” Read from Tezer Özlü’s novel Journey to the End of Life, translated by Maureen Freely. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Skijer Huston considers the freeway novel, and “a literature of ambivalence.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
- “It starts with universities, because universities are this object of resentment and this kind of weird charisma, negative and positive.” Molly Fischer talks to Wesleyan president Michael Roth about how colleges should respond to Trump’s threats. | The New Yorker
- Denise Lyons explores the role of libraries in disaster preparedness and recovery. | Library Journal
- Emily Zarevich examines how Leigh Hunt turned his prison cell into a literary salon and newsroom. | JSTOR Daily
- Jesse McCarthy considers Vincent O. Carter’s forgotten novel, Such Sweet Thunder. | New York Review of Books
- Marisa Crawford talks to Jamie Hood about Trauma Plot: “Being able to imagine my subjectivity as discontinuous or fragmented did allow me to look back on my own shame and to feel less distaste for it, and to feel more generous towards myself.” | Dazed
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