Lit Hub Daily: January 7, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1891, Zora Neale Hurston is born.
- Need help deciding what to read this year? These are the books we’re most anticipating in 2025. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “After all, what is a ghost or an eidolon but an enormous psychic need made externally visible?” Lauren Groff on the nuances of A Room of One’s Own. | Lit Hub Criticism
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- The 27 new books out today include work by Zora Neale Hurston, Adam Ross, Anita Desai, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “In a novel about the ways in which the adults cash a check on their children’s future…I am here to tell you that the more things change, the more they stay the same.” Jane Ciabattari talks to Playworld author Adam Ross. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “Not a muscle even twitched in the face and figure of Antipater as Herod made his dramatic exit from the chamber.” Read from Zora Neale Hurston’s (never before published) novel, The Life of Herod the Great. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Jon Klassen reflects on the beauty of board books. | The New York Times
- Can an author own a trope? Katy Waldman on genre, accused plagiarism, and the rise of romantasy. | The New Yorker
- Ever wonder why Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are so obsessed with epic poetry? | The Nation
- “Translators are likely to be familiar with this textual ingestion, having spent more time chewing on their words than most.” On translation as metamorphosis. | Asymptote
- On the editor who got under Hemingway’s skin: “Hindmarsh, personality-wise, was a battle-axe.” | JSTOR Daily
- “These strange relics allow us to understand a lot about what the contemporary fear of ‘cancel culture’ among right-wingers and reactionary centrists is really about.” Adrian Daub revisits the European “PC dictionaries” of the 1990s. | Slate
