Lit Hub Daily: June 26, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1939, Ford Madox Ford dies.
- Paul Bradly Carr warns us of the dangers of AI, which he calls “the pinnacle of (lying, cheating, stealing) tech disruption and something novelists have been warning us about for decades… Is there any wonder the Valley’s illiterate overlords are embracing it?” | Lit Hub Technology
- “I found myself fascinated by the remotest islands, and a strange tradition that seemed to keep people going out to them.” James Rebanks on rediscovering hope for humanity on Norway’s remote northern coast. | Lit Hub Travel
- Who was Sylvia Lynd? Nicola Wilson on one of the forgotten great literary citizens of the 20th century. | Lit Hub History
- “Harry Potter’s magic should be, by its own terms, no better able to deter its users from consumerism or overreliance than contemporary technologies can.” Keridiana Chez on work, technology, and consumerism in the world of Harry Potter. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Kristen Arnett answers your queries on bad bookish behavior, including the ur-question — “Am I the asshole for sabotaging my own writing before even starting?” | Lit Hub
- Brian Dillon on Geoff Dyer, Leah Greenblatt on Karim Dimechkie, MJ Franklin on Aisling Rawle, and more book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- “In an era where the world’s accumulation of knowledge is instantly accessible on a device that fits in your pocket, I am forced to seek illicit medical triage in the back of a beauty salon.” The impossible costs of being undocumented and ill in America. | Lit Hub Politics
- Check out a poem by DeeSoul Carson from the new issue of Michigan Quarterly Review. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “I think that confronting all that imperial culture embeds in each of us is a lifelong project.” Cindy Juyoung Ok talks to National Book Award-winning poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “I had little interest in rehabilitation, I told myself, but even I could no longer tell when I was lying.” Read from Joanna Howard’s Porthole, out now from McSweeney’s. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Contrary to the more exciting idea that an army of DEI warriors has forced men to the sidelines, what’s really happening is that, in response to historic declines in literature’s value, the industry has itself become a site of more contingent and more precarious work that is more often done by women.” Sarah Brouillette on what’s really behind the plight of the white male novelist. | Defector
- Novelist Andrew O’Hagan takes on the Joan Didion industrial complex. | London Review of Books
- Ever wondered why The Onion is our sanest newspaper? CEO Ben Collins explains what the rag gets right. | Rolling Stone
- Are the kids having enough sex? Jia Tolentino looks at two books that consider the bedroom habits of Gen Z. | The New Yorker
- Emma Copley Eisenberg explores the legacy of Dorothy Allison. | Harper’s Bazaar
- Would you enjoy a Great Gatsby boat tour, a 90-minute cruise around Manhasset Bay to explore East Egg and West Egg? | New York Times
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