Lit Hub Daily: July 28, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1927, John Ashbery is born.
- What happened when Piers Gelly tried to replace himself with AI? “Far from being nihilistic, take-no-prisoners cheaters, my students seemed genuinely confused. I could work with confused.” | Lit Hub Technology
- Natalie Guerrero explores the interconnectedness of identity, erasure and language in America today. | Lit Hub Politics
- “In literature I have found a landscape or galaxy that is vaster and more enduring than a country or a state.” Ha Jin considers the universal power of artistic practice. | Lit Hub Craft
- On the enduring legacy of Harold and the Purple Crayon and the freeing art of imagination. | Lit Hub Art
- Margaret Busby discusses the disruptive poetry of Jayne Cortez: “Rereading her words was a reminder of how far ahead of the game she always was.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “Resy treated me like a little niece. She was also my On-the-Job Instructor (OJI) and was to supervise my first three days of delivering mail.” Read from J.B. Hwang’s debut novel, Mendell Station. | Lit Hub Fiction
- John Darnielle offers a remembrance of Ozzy Osbourne. | Pitchfork
- “Oh but it is as dull and painful to recite about what creative act should be as it is to read about it.” Letters from Claude McKay. | Paris Review
- Carolina Ana Drake reports on how the artists of the Florida Everglades are fighting back against the proposed “Alligator Alcatraz.” | Harper’s Bazaar
- “If it happens to a writer, the struggle to turn the experience into language mirrors the abortion itself, bringing whatever it means out of the body and into the light.” On how to write an abortion story. | Lux
- What does it mean when a revolutionary cookbook is (mostly) made up? | The New Yorker
- Annie Berke explores the enduring appeal of Clueless. | Defector
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