Lit Hub Daily: December 3, 2024
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson dies.
- Jen Benka considers art in the era of ChatGPT and why poetry definitely isn’t dead. | Lit Hub Criticism
- In case you missed them, here are the best (new) books the Lit Hub staff read this year. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- On the latest episode of The Lit Hub Podcast, Merve Emre announces new seasons of The Critic and Her Publics, Jonny Diamond and Drew Broussard talk money, and Lit Hub’s own McKayla Coyle, Oliver Scialdone, and Calvin Kasulke join Drew for an awards season round-table. | Lit Hub Radio
- “The fact that I can’t name one favorite book after this year is, I think, a good thing.” Angela Baggetta shares what she learned from a year of rereading books. | Lit Hub Craft
- “She had started looking in winter, browsing rental sites recommended by friends who went away for long periods of summer and knew about this stuff.” Read from Weike Wang’s new novel, Rental House. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Oscar Schwartz considers the literary merit of Amazon reviews. | The New Yorker
- “Ray Johnson, like Emily Dickinson, dreamed of an unworldly art: the sheen without the moon.” Ellen Levy on the connection between two artists. | The MIT Press Reader
- Mark Minster reflects on the difficulty of teaching the Bible to mixed groups of students. | Slate
- “There has been an extraordinary shift in public opinion about this war, relatively swiftly.” Rashid Khalidi and Mark O’Connell in conversation about Gaza, America, and genocide. | New York Review of Books
- Bruno Leipold chronicles how Karl Marx became a communist. | Jacobin
- “After my teenage years, I started noticing how fear and anxiety manifested in my body and how…recent traumas from wars, political corruption, and lack of safety conditioned my body.” Joseph Kai on trauma, power, and comics. | The Comics Journal
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