Lit Hub Daily: December 8, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1894, James Thurber is born.
- How A.A. Milne’s romance novels reveal another side of the Winnie-the-Pooh author. | Lit Hub Biography
- Literary artists Mark Modimola, Lisa Maria Burgess, and Deena Mohamed celebrate African visual storytelling. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Catharina Coenen reflects on how Germany’s turbulent 20th century impacted her grandmother’s life. | Lit Hub History
- “An urn elicits feedback in seconds; a book, maybe never.” Brendan Mac Evilly asks if he’s a better novelist or ceramist. | Lit Hub Craft
- “I remember late one night in Paris / speaking at length to a dog in English / about the future of American culture.” Read “Le Chien,” a poem by Billy Collins from the collection Dog Show. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “You don’t even need to be born / again in order to be born against / this riddled wall, each bayonet in love / with your bare, stigmatic neck.” Read two poems from Devon Walker-Figueroa’s new collection, Lazarus Species. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “My cousin Elna arrived mid-December the year I was fourteen. I didn’t even know she’d been invited to stay.” Read from Justine Champine’s new novel, Needle Lake. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “I think poetry is a positive outcome of friendship. I’d call that a fact.” Eileen Myles reflects on writing their previously unpublished poem, “Bird Watching.” | The Paris Review
- Do we need more leftist crime fiction? “Not only were progressives and leftists writing crime fiction, but it was seen as an appropriate and respectable use of their time.” | Jacobin
- Greta Rainbow recommends cozy lit as a salve for doomscrolling. | The Walrus
- Has “working-class writing” gone the way of the dodo bird? Jake Trelease on the need for literature beyond the bourgeoisie. | Tribune
- How community libraries make archival and literary resources accessible as attacks on knowledge escalate. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- From Chaucer and beyond, Stewart Mottram chronicles a literary history of floods. | The Conversation
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