Lit Hub Daily: February 4, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1970, Louise Bogan, the fourth Poet Laureate of the United States and The New Yorker’s poetry editor for nearly 40 years, dies.
- Josh Cook on preserving the independence of our bookstores and libraries: “A just world starves fascism of the nutrients it needs to thrive.” | Lit Hub Politics
- “The Aubrey/Maturin series is not only a military-historical epic but also—I would even say primarily—a work of domestic fantasy.” Olivia Wolfgang-Smith explores Master and Commander’s queer subtext. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Hanif Kureishi, Lidia Yuknavitch, Ali Smith and more! These 26 new books are out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Allegra Goodman remembers how audiobooks perfectly accompanied her morning commutes with her son. | Lit Hub Craft
- Sarah Chihaya on bibliophobia, or why your greatest love could also become your greatest fear. | Lit Hub Memoir
- How many licks does it take to get to the center? On candy and the question of instant (and delayed) gratification. | Lit Hub Food
- Grace Tiffany recommends literary works that radically reimagine Shakespeare, including books by David Wroblewski, Dorothy Dunnett, Richard Adams, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “I read and read and read. I cannot read enough. There are not enough books for my hunger, I cannot keep up with myself.” Read from Sonya Walger’s new novel, Lion. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Sally Rooney seems to ignore three decades of queer theory and crip theory…” On the ableism that drives the plot of Intermezzo. | Disability Visibility Project
- How American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman became the internet’s ultimate “sigma male.” | Vox
- “According to a 2023 Pew survey, about sixty per cent of Americans believe in the existence of Hell.” Elisa Gonzalez on the poetry of Shane McCrae. | The New Yorker
- Alex Gendler explores the philosophical roots of tech bros: “In many ways, rationalism is the result of people with STEM educations attempting to tackle questions that had long been the purview of the humanities…” | The Point
- Friends and colleagues remember Jules Feiffer. | The Comics Journal
- “The Dispossessed is a running political conversation.” Jonathan Bolton reads Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed at 50. | LARB
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