Lit Hub Daily: May 14, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1937, BBC Television broadcasts a 30-minute excerpt of Twelfth Night, the first known instance of a Shakespeare piece being televised.
- These are the guest editors and covers of the 2025 Best American Series! | Lit Hub
- “Surely it’s the sign of a remarkable work of art that it cannot be pinned down to any one definition, that you can find something new in it at each encounter.” On 100 years of Mrs. Dalloway. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Why Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a queer pioneer of the study of human sexuality, had to flee the Nazis. | Lit Hub Biography
- Mia Manzulli explores what it means to teach Mrs. Dalloway in the age of AI and fractured attention. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Emily Temple rounds up 100 Mrs. Dalloway covers for 100 years of the iconic novel. | Lit Hub Design
- “They looked happy enough and healthy enough, but not one of them looked as if she had found the fountain of youth.” On the motivations and methods of people who want to live forever. | Lit Hub Health
- Alex Foster considers what draws us to doomsday fantasies (and why we should resist our apocalyptic urges). | Lit Hub History
- Ling Ling Huang on why logging off and tuning out are essential t0 the creative process. | Lit Hub Craft
- Mark Hussey chronicles how Virginia Woolf began drafting Mrs. Dalloway. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “like cupid I can only shoot / one arrow at a time / but I’m practicing comrade.” Read “Carmet et Error,” a poem by Rosie Stockton from the collection Fuel. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “Abe stands on the shaggy living room rug of his great uncle’s trailer, shoes off, stripped to the waist.” Read from Aaron John Curtis’s new novel, Old School Indian. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Shame on the White House. Shame on those who should be stopping this slide into autocracy and aren’t.” George Saunders responds to Trump’s firing of librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden. | The New York Times
- … and Trump’s attempts at taking over the Library of Congress are even more dangerous than we thought. | Rolling Stone
- John Garrison revisits Percival Everett’s Wounded. | Public Books
- Eliane Glaser explores the many faces of the hero’s journey: “It is an enterprise in which convention is disguised as variety, while constraint is disguised as freedom – and this, surely, is the essence of Western consumer capitalism.” | Aeon
- Kyle Stevens takes a deep look at sneering in The White Lotus. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Edward Gauvin on the Kafkaesque nature of Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud’s The Messengers | Words Without Borders
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