Lit Hub Daily: January 3, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1895, Oscar Wilde’s comedy An Ideal Husband premieres at the Haymarket Theatre in London.
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Jamaica Kincaid talks to Sandra Guzmán about colonialism, gardening, and worshipping her plants. | Lit Hub In Conversation
Article continues after advertisement - “As the politics of anger and fear return to power, I try to find encouragement in what she did.” On Ursula K. Le Guin’s politics and activism. | Lit Hub Politics
- Sara Mitchell explores racing, a family legacy of survival, and what car crashes can reveal about human hubris and fragility. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Kick off the new year with these 21 new paperbacks, including books by Christina Cooke, Patrick Stewart, Kyle Chayka, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “War has miracles that minds are unable to comprehend, and anyone who has lived in a city at war is fully aware of this.” Read Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa’s story “The Things Heaven Cannot Tell People,” translated by Maisaa Tanjour and Alice Holttum and published in the new issue of McSweeney’s. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “[I]magined worlds are precious; we who succumb to their power may find them very hard to give up.” Andrea Long Chu considers Dungeons & Dragons at fifty. | New York Magazine
- Why literary plagiarism is everywhere (in fiction, at least). | The New York Times
- “Yet within the contours of the emerging Trump administration a clear vision for the nation’s schools is emerging, and it looks a lot like the past.” On the United States before public education. | The Baffler
- These are some of 2024’s most notable comics and graphic novels: “This was a good year for memoirs.” | The Comics Journal
- Books full of AI-generated slush have infiltrated the online lace making community. | 404 Media
- Jeet Heer remembers prolific sci-fi and pulp novelist Barry Malzberg: “If your life absolutely depended on it, could you write a readable and publishable novel in 27 hours?” | The Nation
