Lit Hub Daily: March 25, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1925, Flannery O’Connor is born.
- “The ruling class knows that if you give the smartest person in the room a microphone they’re probably going to say free Palestine.” NYU has put an end to live student graduation speeches. | Lit Hub Politics
- Why the town where The Last Picture Show was shot couldn’t wait for production to end. | Lit Hub Film
- Jessica Riskin on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the 18th-century French botanist who changed biology forever on a bet. | Lit Hub History
- “As a reader, you may want Alyoshka to get a grip and do the right thing. But what is the right thing? It depends on who you ask.” Irina Sadovina considers lessons learned from translating Anna Nerkagi’s White Moss. | Lit Hub On Translation
- Read Julie Finch’s keynote speech from the 2026 London Book Fair (about why we still need book festivals). | Lit Hub
- Trevor Jackson explores peasant society at the dawn of European capitalism: “What kind of change was imaginable in this world?” | Lit Hub History
- On the evolving role of Black comedy in Hollywood and the life and career of Stepin Fetchit. | Lit Hub Biography
- How, from ancient times to the present, grains and grasses continue to feed humankind. | Lit Hub Science
- “‘I’m afraid you’ll find what I have to say rather distressing. Sergei Nikolaevich will be arriving in a few days’ time.’” Read from Yuri Felsen’s novel Happiness, translated by Bryan Karetnyk. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Nilay Patel talks to Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Superhuman (formerly known as Grammarly—of “Expert Review” infamy) about AI and the age of extraction. | The Verge
- Speaking of AI slop… how does it taste? | The Cut
- Five of your favorite novelists discuss what it takes to tell the truth. | Harper’s Bazaar
- What happens when a book is franchised? J.W. McCormack on the perils of the “continuation novel.” | The Baffler
- Victoria Baena on what every adapter gets wrong about the violence in Wuthering Heights. | The Nation
- Why human book reviews are “an engine that helps keep the culture running.” | The New York Times
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