Lit Hub Daily: March 18, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1918, the Telemachus episode in James Joyce‘s Ulysses is published in serialized form in the journal The Little Review.
- “We will not take lectures on antisemitism from segregationists and neo-nazis.” Joseph Howley, a Columbia University professor, speaks out against the kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil. | Lit Hub Politics
- “Maybe my experience putting out a book this time around has at least as much to do with how I’ve changed as how publishing has.” Xhenet Aliu on why even as publishing changes, the writing never stops. | Lit Hub Craft
- “One thing that does interest me is the way that, in Asia in particular, the mixed race subject is specifically tied to, and invokes the memory of, U.S. military occupation.” Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda on translating Yuko Tsushima’s Wildcat Dome. | Lit Hub On Translation
- Josh Duboff explains how interviewing celebrities taught him the literary lessons that helped write his debut novel. | Lit Hub Craft
- Emma Donoghue recommends books about trains by Émile Zola, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Ethel Lina White, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Paul Hawken merges science and Indigenous wisdom to tell the complex story of carbon in our world. | Lit Hub Science
- The 25 new books out today include titles by Kristen Arnett, Amy Shearn, Emma Donoghue, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Russell Shorto on the colonial struggle that gave birth to New York City. | Lit Hub History
- Nicole Cuffy recounts immersing herself in the disenfranchisement and desperation of the Vietnam War generation while writing a novel. | Lit Hub Craft
- “I mean, I adore being a clown, regardless of anyone else’s feelings about it. But there are times when it wears me down to a flat‑out nub.” Read from Kristen Arnett’s new novel, Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Jonathan Taylor on Roald Dahl and fatherhood: “In parenthood, there are moments of failure — of temper or disconnection or dismissiveness — we can never take back, however much we want to.” | MIT Press Reader
- “There are parts of Frost’s uncertainty that I think can feel profoundly intuitive, even revelatory, these days.” Jessica Laser and Adam Plunkett ask, was Robert Frost a good poet? | The Paris Review
- Norwegian writer Dag Solstad has died at 83. | The Guardian
- Joshua Hammer explores the history of four competitive scholars who deciphered cuneiform. | Smithsonian Magazine
- “It was during the pandemic that I got really into watching vintage snooker clips online.” Daniel Drake interviews Sally Rooney. | New York Review of Books
- Federico Perelmuter considers the pope’s autobiography: “Hope skirts the uncomfortable fact that the Catholic Church’s leadership was enthusiastically in favor of the military dictatorship.” | The Dial
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