Lit Hub Daily: May 30, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1593, Christopher Marlowe dies in a tavern brawl.
- Ocean Vuong remembers listening to Sufjan Stevens’s Carrie & Lowell for the first time: “The songs prove that we were here. They are made of air—and yet we walk on them.” | Lit Hub Music
- “I ask you—I beg you—to join us in speaking out for Palestine.” Read Michelle de Kretser’s acceptance speech for the 2025 Stella Prize. | Lit Hub Politics
- Anna Mitchael recalls falling into ghostwriting “like one might fall into a hole.” | Lit Hub Craft
- From the classic to contemporary, these are the pieces of literary film and TV coming to streaming in June. | Lit Hub Film
- June brings paperbacks from Helen Philips, Frederick Seidel, Tiya Miles, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Ocean Vuong’s The Emperor of Gladness, Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain, Daniel Kehlmann’s The Director, and Robert Macfarlane’s Is a River Alive? all feature among May’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
- Our friends at AudioFile Magazine share their most anticipated June audiobooks. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “It’s been wrapped in a plastic bag and buried in a drawer ever since I brought it here from the old house along with all my other so-called valuables.” Read from Fatma Qandil’s novel Empty Cages, translated by Adam Talibv. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Remembering Susan Brownmiller, the radical feminist author of Against Our Will. | The New Republic
- Watch Abraham Verghese confront the Trump administration in his Harvard commencement speech (and explain why we all need to read fiction). | PBS NewsHour
- “Consumerism and individualism are very powerful, and it’s just very hard to sustain communal values on a large scale in a modern capitalist economy.” John Cassidy and James Surowiecki discuss the past, present, and possible future of capitalism. | The Yale Review
- Emma Adler considers two recent novels inspired by Chekhov and explains why he’s the perfect muse for chroniclers of the Covid era. | Public Books
- Greg Hunter looks at the graphic adaptation of Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy. | The Comics Journal
- Trevin Corsiglia on how Walt Whitman used photography to construct his image. | The Conversation
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