Lit Hub Daily: June 4, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1902, Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of literature from the University of Missouri.
- Read Ocean Vuong’s keynote speech from the 2025 Whiting Awards Ceremony: “While art is most powerful when it is prominent to a populace, so too our community movements.” | Lit Hub Craft
- “The experiences that my abstinence made room for were incredibly rich and vivid, and even sexy.” Melissa Febos on documenting her year of celibacy in a book. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- What do Americans want to read? Maybe we should check the polls! | Lit Hub Criticism
- Aidan Ryan examines the benefits and challenges of applying a fiction writing background to the art of biography. | Lit Hub Craft
- Mark Kriegel on the lessons Mike Tyson learned from his mother (and Alexander the Great). | Lit Hub Biography
- Maggie Stiefvater gets glamorous while tracing the history and practice of high-end luxury. | Lit Hub History
- Tim Weed recommends books that explore deep time by Robert Hazen, Marcia Bjornerud, Thomas Halliday, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Joan scrambled to dump the pushcart of her possessions into a Coney Island trash can on the beach off the boardwalk way down from her building so her landlord wouldn’t see.” Read from Lydia Conklin’s new novel, Songs of No Provenance. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Adelle Waldman shows some love for Northanger Abbey, Austen’s least beloved novel. | The New Yorker
- “All notions of untranslatability depend in fact on the fallacy that ‘perfection’ is an ideal that translations should aspire to and be judged by.” Geoffrey Brock on the trouble with focusing on what gets lost in translation. | Poetry
- Jessica Taylor considers the similarities between writing romance and academic research. | Public Books
- Cat Zhang documents the CUNY students on hunger strike for Gaza. | The Cut
- Sophie Kemp wants to know: What is the real internet novel? | The Point
- What Asimov’s I, Robot can remind us about living in an age of AI. | The New Yorker
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