Lit Hub Daily: March 8, 2023

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TODAY: In 1978, Douglas Adams’s comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy originates as a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the UK.  

Also on Lit Hub: How wave riding is like writing • On the rise and fall (and rise?) of German militarism, from the 17th century to today • Read from Eleanor Catton’s latest novel, Birnam Wood



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