Lit Hub Daily: August 1, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1915, Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is published in The Atlantic Monthly.
- This month’s new sci-fi and fantasy titles feature sapphic vampires, robot ghost kitchens, and bloody exorcisms! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Finding men who treated me with respect, like a human being instead of an object, was difficult, destabilizing; finding men who made me feel safe was nearly impossible.” Meg Pillow considers the legacy of actress Lana Clarkson and unpacks the archetype of the Promising Young Woman. | Lit Hub Criticism
- New works by Mariko Tamaki and Nicole Goux, Hailey Alcaraz, Daniela Kulot, and more are among the children’s books arriving in August. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Amy Silverberg is reading books by Rita Bullwinkel, Rebecca Lee, Marie-Helene Bertino, and more! | Lit Hub Criticism
- “If Vivian Gornick wrote fiction, it might look something like this.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Christopher Spaide recommends new collections by Sasha Debevec-McKenney, Heather Christle, bruno darío and other poets. | Lit Hub Poetry
- Books out in paperback this month include work by Elizabeth Strout, Kristopher Jansma, and Chelsea Bieker! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “I was a palm-wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age. I had no other work more than to drink palm-wine in my life.” Read from Amos Tutuola’s novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Read Marguerite Duras’s account of producing her 1979 film, Le Navire Night: “I believe the film was no doubt surplus, too much, thus unnecessary, useless.” | The Paris Review
- Henry Louis Gates Jr. examines Jamaica Kincaid’s radical penchant for “assuming the blackness of her characters without saying so.” | New York Review of Books
- John Waters, Art Spiegelman, Kate Bornstein and more on making banned art. | T Magazine
- Virginia Heffernan explores the ways in which Big Ten universities are standing up to Trump. | The New Republic
- Ed Park writes about Buffalo’s infamous Blizzard of ’77 and the board game it inspired, in which “travel is entirely local and maddeningly static.” | Graywolf Lab
- How journalist Jack Poulson discovered that two pieces of his writing had been delisted from Google search results. | 404 Media
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