Lit Hub Daily: June 27, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1838, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay is born.
- “The law may call it fair use. But in the age of AI, it’s starting to look like a free lunch.” Aron Solomon on how the Meta AI copyright decision made libraries sitting ducks for AI plundering. | Lit Hub Technology
- “We want our publishers to stand with us.” An open letter against AI from some of your favorite writers to the people who publish them. | Lit Hub Technology
- From bookworm to slush, David Crystal explores the unlikely etymologies behind some popular bookish phrases. | Lit Hub History
- “When we restrict ourselves solely to what we believe we know, we stifle our imaginations and prevent ourselves from the hard work of becoming, creating, and envisioning something far wider than the sliver of knowledge we have access to.” Leila Mottley on how to write authentic fiction about a place you’ve never been. | Lit Hub Craft of Writing
- A new craft series from creative writing teachers Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante: First lesson, the importance of getting lost in your writing.| Lit Hub Craft
- Subtle, funny, and red: these are the best book covers published in June. | Lit Hub Design
- Forget that iced coffee, and go get one of these 25 excellent paperbacks out in July. | The Hub
- Foundation, The Institute, and The Summer I Turned Pretty: here’s the literary film and TV you need to stream in July. | Lit Hub Film & TV
- What to listen to this July? AudioFile Magazine recommends ten audiobooks worth your while. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Jess Walter’s So Far Gone, Catherine Lacey’s The Möbius Book, Susan Choi’s Flashlight, and Caroline Fraser’s Murderland all feature among June’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
- “Family. A word that has always sounded very strange to me. I had looked it up once in a dictionary, which defined it as ‘descendants of a common ancestor.’ I am still unable to ascertain who this common ancestor of ours is.” From Eleanor Wilde’s June in the Garden. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “They programmed him to be polite. That much is clear. He’s never going to say, ‘You’re kind of a dick.’” Nancy Lemann on ChatGPT and the lessons of the comments section. | The Paris Review
- Jeremy Gordon explains why he, a man, reads fiction (and no, it’s not to build empathy). | The Atlantic
- “It takes a certain audacity to invoke international law while one is endorsing a thoroughly documented genocide.” Mary Turfah on the airstrikes on Iran. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Jessica George explores the evolution of children’s science lit. | JSTOR Daily
- What is ChatGPT doing to our brains? Kyle Chayka considers the evidence. | The New Yorker
- Carey Baraka on authorship, mother tongues, and the dominance of English as a global language as seen in J.M. Coetzee’s new book, Speaking in Tongues. | The Dial
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