Lit Hub Daily: July 24, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1966, Frank O’Hara is hit by a dune buggy on Fire Island beach. He dies of his injuries the next day.
- “I’m still crying about it today.” Neko Case praises Sinéad O’Connor’s catalogue and reflects on the legendary singer-songwriter’s legacy. | Lit Hub Music
- Emily Van Duyne on Gaza, genocide, and the responsibility of a narrator: “Call a word a bomb and you out yourself as a Western intellectual, more afraid of an idea than of an MK-84.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- Is it wrong for a librarian to ignore her on-the-job duties just to work on her novel? This and other questions answered on Am I the Literary Asshole? | Lit Hub Advice
- “It’s the best vaccination against 1970s nostalgia I’ve ever received.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Tanya Talaga examines the intersections of a family mystery and the ongoing impact of genocide against Canada’s First Nations. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Iain MacGregor looks inside the final moments before the bombing of Hiroshima and the beginning of the Atomic Age. | Lit Hub History
- “In the summer of my nervous breakdown, I went to live in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada.” Read from John Gregory Dunne’s Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Elisabeth Egan profiles the pets who call bookstores home. | The New York Times
- “My book only briefly mentions Gaza’s parents and kids, and it triggers protests.” Aymann Ismail on what happened when pro-Israel protestors came to his reading. | Slate
- Alexandra Billet considers the gutting of public broadcasting, and the necessity of “creative and informational spaces […] shielded from the influence of commerce.” | Jacobin
- Susan Choi recalls her time as a fact-checker at The New Yorker. | The Yale Review
- Jonathon Atkinson remembers the “inarticulability” of Lyn Hejinian through her book-length poem, Fall Creek. | n+1
- From objects to species, Michelle Nijhuis examines why humans choose the things we wish to save. | New York Review of Books
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