Lit Hub Daily: July 10, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1640, Aphra Behn is born.
- “My Irish mother used to say to me, ‘You’re a tinker. You make a little mess and move on.’” Nick Ripatrazone remembers Fanny Howe. | Lit Hub
- How does a critic write a novel about critics? Charlotte Runcie explores the relationship between artists and reviewers. | Lit Hub Craft
- Tracy Slater chronicles the story of Elaine Yoneda, “the only Jewish woman incarcerated in any of the camps for Japanese Americans,” and her family. | Lit Hub History
- Most advice is subjective, but this isn’t: if you write with AI, you’re definitely the asshole. | Lit Hub Advice
- “A book about the destruction of bohemia and the nightmare of trying to live—let alone make art—with very little money.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Joanna Howard explores the impact of her mother’s passion for film on her own storytelling: “Most readers won’t notice these undercurrents, unless they had an upbringing like mine, but they remain in the work.” | Lit Hub Craft
- “When the fires rage towards my home, I turn in bed, dreaming of you.” Read from Raaza Jamshed’s new novel, What Kept You? | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Now, a normal journalistic outfit might find this kind of thing embarrassing, especially so when other reporters…sit up and take notice.” How America’s newspaper of record continues to fail the public. | The Verge
- Tegan O’Neil takes you inside the 1982 DC Comics style guide. | The Comics Journal
- Yooj Chun explores what it means to read Han Kang during political crisis in South Korea. | Public Books
- Chloe Garcia Roberts interviews the late Fanny Howe: “Generally, I wouldn’t want to be trapped with other writers, ever.” | The Paris Review
- “Options beget options.” Lisa Borst on the novel-to-prestige-TV pipeline. | N+1
- “History is a house filled with guns, not under lock and key, but scattered all over the house, fully loaded.” Brandon Shimoda considers the echoes of Japanese American incarceration in Trump’s cruel anti-immigrant policies. | The Baffler
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