Lit Hub Daily: May 2, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1955, Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
- Leaving Twitter, publishing poetry, and talking about… men who read? All on the Lit Hub Podcast. | Lit Hub Radio
- Caroline Carlson recommends ten new universe-expanding children’s books. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- From Hell and drifting to the super gay, these new poetry collections are coming in May. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “Writing about Theo was—is—painful because it’s a distillation of my general anxiety, and at times shame, in turning my life into content.” Arianna Rebolini on being both a parent and a memoirist. | Lit Hub Craft
- This month’s SFF brings stories of queer futures, Golden Age sci-fi, and a romantasy take on what it really means to be a horse girl. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “The children woke coughing. Smoke hung above their beds, so they dropped beneath it, dressed lying down.” Read from Clea Young’s new story collection, Welcome to the Neighborhood. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Zoe Dubno considers Shulamith Firestone’s Airless Spaces and how capitalism makes us all miserable. | The Nation
- “Allowing re-creation of known stories by new authors gives these monsters an afterlife of their own, leaving lasting impacts on the genre for decades, or even centuries to come.” Olivia Pavao on the public domain as horror hero. | Public Books
- Gina Gagliano catches up with comics publishers four months after originally talking to them about the effects of Trump’s tariffs on their work. | The Comics Journal
- Tim Brinkhof on the relevance of Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European to our authoritarian present. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Kevin Nguyen explores the life-changing power of interviewing your family. | The New York Times Magazine
- Sophie Gilbert and Amanda Hess discuss riot grrrl, Britney Spears, and the internet as a character. | Interview
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