Lit Hub Daily: December 19, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1910, Jean Genet is born.
- We published over 2,500 pieces in 2025. These are the ones you clicked on the most. | Lit Hub
- From the Booker to the Giller, the Kirkus to the Edgar, these books took home 2025’s biggest prizes in fiction. | Book Marks
- Sara Martin considers boarding house poetics and communal living as writing craft. | Lit Hub Craft
- “We don’t realize that nearly one in every two people involved with the criminal justice system has had a brain injury—before they ever step foot into a cell.” Molly Gaudry, Carmen Giménez, and D/ANNIE LIONTAS discuss health, identity, and invisible injury. | Lit Hub Health
- Gary Knight recommends five essential books about the Vietnam War’s most important photographs and the people who took them. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Terry McDonell talks to Tom Freston about co-founding MTV and hitchhiking the Sahara: “We made it look chaotic on purpose. Underneath it all, there was a very clear methodology.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “It is essential for scholars to find, pay attention to, closely read, historicize, and theorize the conditions of embodiment in all their material messiness, difficulties, atypicalities, affordances, and glories.” Christian Lewis on the advent of raised-print texts in the Victorian era. | Public Books
- What happened when Dan Fox began speaking Welsh, the language of his family: “another gentle process of discovery.” | The Yale Review
- Emily Foister dives into Anya Berger’s archives: “She saw herself participating in the creative work of her lovers, and those in her networks, as both an inspiration and as an interlocutor, shaping the work from the inside.” | The Paris Review
- Who’s stepping up to save journalism? The students. | The Walrus
- Why Bottega Veneta’s new vibe-heavy library encapsulates “fashion’s fetishization of all things literary.” | The Cut
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