Lit Hub Daily: December 20, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1968, John Steinbeck dies.
- These are 50 of 2024’s best nonfiction books, including work by Aaron Robertson, Rebecca Nagle, Isabella Hammad, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- In case you need something to do between now and the new year, these are our 10 favorite book to screen adaptations from 2024. | Lit Hub Film
- “Brain rot” might be the the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year, but Josh Abbey makes the case for recognizing the brain rot of times gone by. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “I’d only like to emphasize that to recognize oneself in literature is one goal of reading, but not for my money the highest goal.” Chris Knapp talks to Andrew Martin about creating realistic relationships and the idea of “universality.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “What does it mean for any of us as Arab writers to be writing in English, the language of the major perpetrators of our suffering?” Abdelrahman ElGendy on Mosab Abu Toha’s Forest of Noise. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Dante, Myriam Moscona, Tilsa Otta, and more make up Rosa Alcalá’s TBR pile. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Here’s a visual guide to every AI copyright lawsuit (in case you need help keeping up). | Wired
- In days of yore, the publishing holiday parties went hard. | The Cut
- “As for the distinction between her science fiction and realist work, I think it’s more of a marketing divide. Even in this novel, she describes people’s skin as green, for example.” Helen O’Horan on translating Izumi Suzuki. | Asymptote
- “Writers want to have their cake and eat it, too. It’s only fair when so many avenues for hawking our wares keep getting bought and ruined…” On Bluesky and the pitfalls of being a writer on the internet. | The Walrus
- Maya Vinokour close-reads Luigi Mangione’s self-help library. | The Nation
- Hannah Bonner considers literary motherhood and Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Nightbitch. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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