Lit Hub Daily: June 16, 2021

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TODAY: In 1816 at the Villa Diodati, Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his house guests—Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori—and challenges each to write a ghost story, which culminates in Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein (read more about it here).  

Also on Lit Hub: How the Stepe brothers inspired a punk rock revolution in Illinois • John Branch on personal loss and public grief in the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting • Read from Yan Lianke’s newly translated novel, Hard Like Water 



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