Lit Hub Daily: July 9, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1867, French novelist Georges Lecomte is born.
- “I didn’t care how I was represented, as long as I was on TV.” Sarah Hartshorne on surviving the horrors (of America’s Next Top Model). | Lit Hub TV
- Mary Jo Bang on the grand journey of Dante’s Paradiso: “You’re finally nearing the end of the Holy Highway that leads to gladness and joy. This after so many beginnings.” | Lit Hub On Translation
- Peter Balakian on the lessons modern readers can learn from Richard Hofstadter’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1964 book, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. | Lit Hub Politics
- Christopher J. Yates meditates on linguistic homesickness and shares the Britishisms he can’t use in the States. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “That book… was not the book my father wanted. But it was the only one that I could write. It spoke the only truth I knew.” Margot Singer explains how she wrote the memoir her father couldn’t. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Six months after her husband died, Lily Weilerstein found his sex diaries buried in the back shelf of the cedar closet in the hallway of the Upper West Side apartment where they had lived together for almost forty years…” Read “I Am Seventy-Five,” a story from Helen Schulman’s new collection, Fools for Love. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Is it actually true that kids can’t read? Constance Grady looks into it. | Vox
- How media is trying to survive the “traffic apocalypse” (and this time, it’s not pivot to video). | New York Magazine
- “Kesey was a divine fool, an unwitting figure in a conservative revolution.” Nick Burns on the reissue of Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
- Tired: naming a city after a dead colonizer. Wired: naming a city after “the vengeful ghost of a woman.” | JSTOR Daily
- “Nothing is easier than accessing the sense of the special dignity of certain stones” From 1957, André Breton considers the language of stones. | The Paris Review
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