Lit Hub Daily: August 15, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1894, A. E. Waite starts to publish and edit his occult periodical The Unknown World.
- This week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Publishers Marketplace 101, Maris Kreizman burns it down, and more! | Lit Hub Radio
- “Everybody says they care and want to help. Does anybody really care?” Carole Hinojosa on addiction, motherhood, and advocating for people whose experiences she understands intimately. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Orlando Whitfield recounts a tale of friendship, deceit, and the seedy lows of high art. | Lit Hub Art
- Olia Hercules remembers the sacred legacies of family, ghosts, and sour cherries in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Peter Orner’s The Gossip Columnist’s Daughter, Caleb Gayle’s Black Moses, and Emily Adrian’s Seduction Theory all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- “Touching grass” isn’t just a comment section cliché—we should all probably go outside. | Lit Hub Nature
- Read “Old Song,” a poem by Nima Hasan with translator’s notes by Huda Fakhreddine: “A real poem is never only of the moment. A real poem defeats time, every time.” | Lit Hub Poetry
- “Often, readers noted how the novel leaned into the interiority of my characters via other senses…” Yiming Ma explains the benefits of writing blind.| Lit Hub Craft
- “Let’s start at the urinal.” Read from David Levithan and Jens Lekman’s new novel, Songs for Other People’s Weddings. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Eighty years after the atomic bomb, Rachel Greenley contemplates narrative, omission, and the ethics of turning life into art. | Orion
- “Freedom is neither a fixed idea nor a story of progress toward a predetermined goal.” Eric Foner reflects on his education as a historian. | The Nation
- Laura Miller explores how Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny took over TikTok (and the bestseller list). | Slate
- On the tragedy of Jumbo the Elephant, Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear, and Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil. | The Paris Review
- Nolan Kelly watches two cinematic adaptations of Sigrid Nunez novels: “Of course, you have to cast someone.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
- People are scrambling to buy 4K Blu-Ray copies of Master and Commander. | 404 Media
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