Lit Hub Daily: February 21, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1903, Anaïs Nin is born.
- This week on The Lit Hub Podcast: How the publishing world can respond to Trump, and “What energizes you?” | Lit Hub Radio
- “When in doubt, leave the reaction out.” Eric Puchner on how to be funny when writing a novel. | Lit Hub Craft
- Ted Hamm on how Jimmy Breslin and Langston Hughes each reacted to the assassination of Malcolm X. | Lit Hub History
- Susan Morrison’s Lorne, Eric Puchner’s Dream State, and Rebecca Romney’s Jane Austen’s Bookshelf all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- Neel Mukherjee talks to Eli Zuzovsky about film, selfhood, and being an Israeli writer today. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- How Little Richard brought Black and queer culture to American music: “Like the whole record, they represent a sophisticated synthesis of Black music past and present, a history and a tradition that Richard had lived.” | Lit Hub Music
- “Every month, money drips / into my retirement account. You think the world / will still be around when you’re sixty-five?” Read “Information Worker at the End of the World,” a poem by Stephanie Niu from the collection I Would Define the Sun. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “He’d started out in Paris, then on to Zurich and Prague, cities still vital and unblemished in their appearance; then Frankfurt, Munich, his native Berlin, Vienna, and points east, which were ashes.” Read from Steve Stern’s novel, A Fool’s Kabbalah. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “His underlying point that no serious ideological competitor to liberal democracy would emerge stands strong.” Michael A. Cohen revisits Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History. | The New Republic
- How watching horror movies way too young hooked Susan Barker on the supernatural (and “had some warping influence on [her] growing mind”). | The Guardian
- Diane Ravitch on the destructive power of “school choice.” | New York Review of Books
- Kasia Bartoszyńska makes the case for literary criticism. | The Point
- On Eduardo Torres and Augusto Monterroso’s The Rest is Silence. | The Baffler
- J. Urquidi and Marcus Clayton discuss literature at the intersection of punk and academia. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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