Lit Hub Daily: July 31, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1638, German poet Sibylla Schwarz dies.
- Peepholes, drips, and bold colors: these are July’s best book covers. | Lit Hub Design
- The literary film and TV coming to a streaming service near you in August includes an Outlander prequel, classic 90s teen flicks, and more! | Lit Hub Film
- “There is something about comedy that just makes for good fiction because it’s about there being a disconnect between expectation and actuality.” Jessie Gaynor interviews Eric Puchner. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Gary Shteyngart’s Vera, or Faith, Sophie Elmhirst’s A Marriage at Sea, Michael Clune’s Pan, and Tim Weiner’s The Mission all feature among July’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
- Our friends at AudioFile Magazine share their most anticipated audiobooks in August. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Did you ever hear about the woman who jumped onto the subway tracks in New York, after a little boy who’d fallen in?” Read from Samsun Knight’s new novel, Likeness. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Philip Luke Johnson looks at two recent novels that “uncover the overlooked intervals” of Mexican history. | Public Books
- Zhang Yueran and Wei Hui discuss censorship, artificial autobiography, and tradition. | Granta
- The construction of a Robert Soros frankenmansion is killing the vibe at Left Bank Books. | Curbed
- Today in “books no one asked for”: John Fetterman will publish a “raw and visceral” memoir this fall. | The New York Times
- Daniel Felsenthal considers a new collection of Essex Hemphill’s poetry and his “liberationist spirit.” | The Nation
- “Despite their differences in practice and philosophy, these authors all shared something—a desire for self-sufficiency, yes, but also their yearning.” On Jean Craighead George and Thoreau. | Orion
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