Lit Hub Daily: July 11, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1960, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is published.
- Take some writing advice from E.B. White (in honor of his birthday). | Lit Hub Advice
- Wanjeri Gakuru recommends essential Kenyan books by Joan Thatiah, Michelle Angwenyi, Billy Kahora, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Ekow Eshun on Black Panther and Black futures that transcend the expectations of modernity. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on why genre isn’t a trap, but a tool that can help push writers outside their comfort zones. | Lit Hub Craft
- Michael T. Luongo remembers Edmund White as a “grand doyen of LGBTQ+ literature” and an incredible mentor. | Lit Hub Biography
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Gary Shteyngart’s Vera, or Faith, Sam Kean’s Dinner With King Tut, and Helen Schulman’s Fools for Love all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- “Interrogating the ways different myths occupy their own unique spaces establishes pathways into existences of literary immortality, offering prisms into the art of storytelling.” Irenosen Okojie on the art of building mythologies. | Lit Hub Craft
- “There is no wind and the rain has gone. My new aluminium bin is still in the middle of the garden, where I had left it, full of contents ready to burn.” Read from Tariq Mehmood’s novel, Sing to the Western Wind. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “A strong model for the opportunity Danielewski saw in this burgeoning TV phenomenon might be the story of how Family Guy took off.” Alexander Sorondo on Mark Z. Danielewski’s unfinished novel. | The Metropolitan Review
- Why the technology behind the slop clogging your feeds is also the technology of war. | The Baffler
- Lucy Knight examines a history of fabricated memoirs (and how they manage to slip through the cracks). | The Guardian
- “The problem with dignity is that it is another way of holding on to social rules without really noticing where those rules come from.” Claire Jarvis revisits Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Enchanted April. | The New Yorker
- Simon Wu considers the artistic possibilities of the New Jersey Turnpike. | The New York Times Magazine
- On Roland Barthes’ essay “The World of Wrestling” and the kayfabe of American politics. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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