Lit Hub Daily: August 11, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1937, Edith Wharton dies.
- Chloé Caldwell recounts the humor and tragedy in trying (and failing) to conceive. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “Am I a writer first, or a grocer?” Karleigh Frisbie Brogan explains how working a non-literary day job helped her writing. | Lit Hub Craft
- The influence of friendship, community, and shyness on Charlotte Brontë’s storytelling. | Lit Hub Biography
- Madeleine Beekman traces the mysterious evolution of language from early humans on. | Lit Hub History
- How abortion bans escalate risks of life-threatening violence: “For some people, you’re basically risking your life to try to make an appointment.” | Lit Hub Politics
- Ellyn Gaydos explains the contentment of reading books about babies as a new mother, including titles by William Carlos Williams, Annie Ernaux, and more. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “The hearse is parked in the driveway, back doors wide open. A few of us wait around for the body to be brought out.” Read from Beverly Gologorsky’s new novel, The Angle of Falling Light. | Lit Hub Fiction
- André Aciman recommends some of his favorite “psychological” novels. | The New Yorker
- “I found in their poetics an understanding of the “outside”: the gender outside, the class outside of mainstream culture and mainstream writing.” Roberto Bedoya on Norma Cole and the poetics of place. | Poetry
- Beloved bother: Hannah Engler considers her connection to her great-uncle, and the unexpected power of a typo. | Longreads
- Elad Uzan explains why AI will never understand human morality. | Aeon
- “Fascists will not stop us from drawing what must be drawn, from expressing what we believe in.” Look inside an iconic comics and zine festival in Rome. | The Comics Journal
- In 1795, Samuel Taylor Coleridge almost “bid farewell forever” to writing. | The Guardian
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