Lit Hub Daily: July 7, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1881, Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio begins serialization in the first issue of Giornale per i Bambini.
- Will Potter examines the psychological and social impact of the over saturation of cruelty in the digital age. | Lit Hub Technology
- “We see ourselves in the predators of the wild; to eat a coyote would feel like an act of cannibalism.” On killing a coyote. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “Language-switching says something about Billy Parham’s ancestry, upbringing and his ability to survive.” Rachel Ashcroft meditates on the joys of reading books in multiple languages. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Brian Schaefer on Lunch Dances, Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri’s immersive dance-theater performance that challenges everything you’ve been taught about how to behave at the library. | Lit Hub Music
- “I am finally yielding to my inner eighth grader, hoping to find the flame tenders of a forgotten American highway before time runs out.” James Dodson explores the history and legacy of the Great Wagon Road. | Lit Hub History
- “School started and it was awful. ‘Predictably awful,’ as Anne Mom would say.” Read from Gary Shteyngart’s new novel, Vera, or Faith. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “To most of us, that Carlyle was so beloved by the leader of the Nazi party is, at the least, a questionable mark against the Victorian thinker.” On Hitler, Curtis Yarvin, and why the far right loves reading Thomas Carlyle. | Public Books
- Casey A. Williams chronicles the revolution and conflict sparked by Kohei Saito’s Degrowth Manifesto. | New York Review of Books
- Professor Marcia Bjornerud explains time literacy (and wants you to pay more attention to rocks). | Atmos
- Neha Madhira reports on the Palestinian journalists targeted for their coverage of genocide. | The Intercept
- “I’ve narrated really raunchy sex scenes – AI doesn’t know what an orgasm sounds like…Birth scenes as well – I’d love to know how they plan on getting around that.” Audiobook narrators grapple with the implications of AI. | The Guardian
- Wells Tower has found your luggage. | The Cut
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