Lit Hub Daily: August 26, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1901, Australian author and poet Eleanor Dark is born.
- Writing someone else’s autofiction: how novelist David Levithan fictionalized musician Jens Lekman’s side hustle as a… wedding singer. | Lit Hub
- Polly Atkin on nature writing, chronic illness, and the controversy surrounding Raynor Winn’s memoir, The Salt Path. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “My mother came back. Which was good, since my father was about done with me.” Read “Intercom,” a prose poem by Richard Siken from the collection I Do Know Some Things. | Lit Hub Poetry
- Nick Foster explains why it’s difficult to look towards the future without looking to science fiction. | Lit Hub Criticism
- What ancient sales receipts can teach us about humanity’s earliest form of writing. | Lit Hub History
- The 17 new books out today include titles by Helen Oyeyemi, André Breton, Richard Siken, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “While many English readers may be quick to assume that Tsujimura’s novels are meant to heal, the word most often used to describe her work in Japan is sasaru. It means stab, sting, turn a knife in my heart.” Yuki Tejima on translation as an act of sharing. | Lit Hub On Translation
- Elaine Hsieh Chou discusses literary community, the search for open space, and experiences of multiple realities. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “A street ran by the house where she was staying in Phoenix, the house where she lived, the house where Eve and Al were paying ‘good money’ for her to be.” Read from Paula Saunders’s novel, Starting From Here. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Sloan Crosley dives into the bewildering world of celebrity children’s books. | The New Yorker
- “Alice survived in and because of poetry. That, and love.” Nick Sturm remembers Alice Notley. | Poetry
- Is the literary industrial complex worth the cash? On the scam of ‘luxury’ writing retreats. | Slate
- Victoria Song struggles to understand why generative AI tools are necessary for journaling. | The Verge
- How Constantine Cavafy became poetry’s original influencer. | The New Republic
- Riley MacLeod recaps New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s scavenger hunt. | Aftermath
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