Lit Hub Daily: January 21, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1950, George Orwell dies.
- RESPONDING TO THE SECOND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: Kim Kelly on the how-tos and DOs and DON’Ts of mutual aid • Madeline ffitch on direct action and survival work in the face of fascism • Josh Cook on what the publishing industry can do in the face of authoritarianism. | Lit Hub Politics
- Henry Alford remembers how “Both Sides Now” catapulted Joni Mitchell to stardom. | Lit Hub Music
- Markus Zusak on rescuing a dog and naming it after a character in his fiction: “My obvious advice for anyone approaching those animal websites is that whatever you do, if you’re only fifty percent sure, don’t look. Once you’ve looked, you’re gone.” | Lit Hub Memoir
- From Han Kang to Markus Zusak, these 22 new books are out now! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “We subconsciously know that technology is really scary, and what’s scary about technology is how little we understand.” Jane Ciabattari talks to Sara Sligar about modernizing a Gothic cult classic. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Solitude, contemplation, and connection: Pico Iyer on lessons learned from monastic life. | Lit Hub Religion
- “Cecile walked at a clip from the metro at Place de la République, late for her rendezvous.” Read from David Wright Faladé’s novel, The New Internationals. | Lit Hub Fiction
- H.J. Tam considers Anthony Veasna So’s Afterparties, a collection that “asks readers to consider ways to be free without conscription—as Anthony would have it, free ‘to be indefinite, free to fuck off and be lost.’” | Public Books
- Take a look inside Robert Caro’s personal library. | The Washington Post
- With a TikTok ban looming, publishers contemplate a future without the mighty power of BookTok. | The New York Times
- How censorship and book bans have suppressed Vietnam’s literary past and present. | Index on Censorship
- David L. Ulin on Los Angeles and apocalyptic literature. | Los Angeles Times
- Livia Gershon traces the etymology and usage of the word “pain.” | JSTOR Daily
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