Lit Hub Daily: April 9, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1963, Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are is published.
- Sarah Viren and Vauhini Vara discuss voice, tech, and the use of AI in writing. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Meredith Hambrock on The Sound of Music in the age of tradwives and Trump: “the narrative of the woman who wants nothing for herself isn’t just on our old, cheerfully packaged VHS tapes—it’s on our phone screens, in our politics, clawing back our rights in the most overt and obvious way.” | Lit Hub Film
- Vaunda Micheaux Nelson reflects on her great-uncle Lewis Michaux’s Harlem bookstore and his contributions to the intellectual empowerment of Black communities. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- Priya Vulchi traces the literary and political friendships of Toni Morrison, Fran Lebowitz, June Jordan, and more. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Bookseller Lucy Kogler on the publishing industry’s waste problem (and what needs to be done about it). | Lit Hub
- “Whatever the controversies about the identity of the epics’ poet (or poets)…there has never been disagreement, either ancient or modern, about the importance of the two Homeric epics.” Daniel Mendelsohn considers the legacy of Homer’s Odyssey. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Mystery, murder and an existential search for meaning and purpose: Read from the graphic adaptation of Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy. | Lit Hub
- “He came out of the ocean. He walked up the seabed until the seabed became a beach, strode through the waves as if the water weren’t even there.” Read from Joe Mungo Reed’s novel, Terrestrial History. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Christian nationalism is indispensable to the modern American form of authoritarianism.” Katherine Stewart on American authoritarianism and reactionary nihilism. | The Baffler
- Amit Baishya and Siddhartha Deb discuss storytelling and “the weird Anthropocene.” | Public Books
- Kyle Turner talks to Andrea Long Chu: “It is grand and comforting that a contemporary critic uses her authority, which happens to be the title of her new collection of essays, with self-awareness.” | Interview
- “If any of the politicians who are in support of banning books were to come into the store, we would love it. Because we would love to pile these books into their arms.” Gale Massey interviews Lauren Groff about her new bookstore, The Lynx. | Southern Literary Review
- Joshua Rothman wonders if A.I. could make news media… better. | The New Yorker
- Stephen Akey remembers working the telephone reference desk at the Brooklyn Public Library. | The Hedgehog Review
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