Lit Hub Daily: January 14, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1963, The Bell Jar is published.
- Steal this identity: Bradford Morrow explores a brief history of literary forgery. | Lit Hub History
- Edward Underhill makes the case for loving queer-coded villains: “The older I get, the more I believe the real beauty of the human experience lies in all its imperfections, its striving, its climbing and falling and climbing again.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- Sahar Delijani navigates the complexity of translating her life from one language to another. | Lit Hub On Translation
- From Dog Man to Animal Farm, these literary film and TV releases are coming to a screen near you in 2025. | Lit Hub Film
- “We’re raising eidolons, real and not-real, tales that move and breathe and stand side by side, speaking Troy into the future.” Maria Zoccola on creating an afterlife for Homer’s Helen in poetry. | Lit Hub Craft
- Pico Iyer, Karissa Chen, Betty Shamieh and more authors take the Lit Hub questionnaire. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- This week’s new books include work by Graham Norton, Danielle Legros Georges, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “On the twentieth of August, we the members of the Tatenokai brotherhood held a skirmish in the boiling lowlands of Mt Fuji to test the mettle of the new recruits.” Read from Yukio Mishima’s story collection Voices of the Fallen Heroes, translated by Sam Bett. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Colm Tóibín eulogizes another thing lost to the LA fires: the late Gary Indiana’s library. | London Review of Books
- Lila Shapiro investigates the myriad abuse allegations against Neil Gaiman. | Vulture
- “I came to What Remains hoping to find Arendt’s poems standing on their own, free from the weight of her essays and books and biography.” Daegan Miller considers Hannah Arendt’s poetry. | Poetry
- Daniel Finn on the “addictively readable” work of the late socialist writer Mike Marqusee. | Jacobin
- Rebekah Denn chronicles the impact and legacy of Little Free Libraries. | Civil Eats
- H.M.A. Leow examines how the films of Bong Joon-ho “unmask the relationship between South Korean and American cinema.” | JSTOR Daily
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