Lit Hub Daily: February 10, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1837, Alexander Pushkin dies.
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- Bruce Robbins argues that we owe our understanding of mass violence to modernity: “The alternative I have been gently suggesting is to embrace the indignant history of the invention of the atrocity as a moral achievement.” | Lit Hub History
- Chloé Caldwell on how dating apps turned her into a bookseller. | Lit Hub Craft
- “If we are very lucky, we find that the thing we have picked up is hitched to everything else in the universe.” David Gessner on following Central Park’s late, great Flaco the Owl. | Lit Hub Nature
- Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on walking the world in a shifting body and gender. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Lidia Yuknavitch on expressing loss: “I do what I do know how to do. I throw them into stories; I watch them move and I can walk again.” | Lit Hub Craft
- “I traveled through America, through Florida, and came one night to a city that was completely silent.” Read from Tove Jansson’s novel Sun City, translated by Thomas Teal. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “One gets the sense that politics has gone off, like a cell phone, in the darkened theater of Pamela Paul’s mind. It is worse than wrong: It is rude.” Andrea Long Chu on Pamela Paul and reactionary liberalism. | New York Magazine
- Olga Ravn meditates on the life and work of Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen. | The Paris Review
- Karen Solie sings the praises of list-making. | The Walrus
- “With them, Han tells the reader not to give up on the lived-in world.” Lily Meyer on Han Kang’s We Do Not Part. | The New Republic
- Rachel Davies explores the past and (disappointing) present of the recently relaunched IKEA Byakorre bookshelf. | Dirt
- An interview with the computer scientist (and poetry lover) who has created a genomic LLM to “help make sense of the genetic library. | Quanta
