Lit Hub Daily: November 11, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1821, Fyodor Dostoevsky is born.
- The 2025 National Book Award Finalists answer our questions about their books, their reading habits, and their writing lives! | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Maria Kunetsova remembers when the publishing industry gambled on her (and how she coped when she realized it lost). | Lit Hub Memoir
- Sarah Viren talks to Jen Percy about playing dead and writing about gendered violence: “Ultimately, I think I came to understand freezing as both a prison and a superpower.” | Lit Hub Craft
- The 23 new books out today include titles by Olivia Laing, Sarah Weinman, Alison Roman, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Jane Ciabattari talks to Olivia Laing about fictionalizing cinematic icons Federico Fellini and Pier Paolo Pasolini. | Lit Hub Craft
- “I’d gladly take some level of hubris over my impostor syndrome: I’m still not sure if my words are of interest to anybody else.” Char Adams, Michelle Carr, Viola van de Sandt, and more authors take the Lit Hub Questionnaire. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Boris Groys examines how Alexandre Kojève made sense of the nothingness of human existence. | Lit Hub History
- “Who we were, who we are, and who we will be: these are condemned to remain…strangers to each other.” Philip Weinstein explores philosophical and literary approaches to the end of life. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Thomas Flett relies upon the ebb tide for a living, but he knows the end is near.” Read from Benjamin Wood’s Booker Prize-longlisted novel, Seascraper. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “The challenge facing Jewish fiction writers today is in telling… stories in which Jews behave badly in the name of Judaism — without fear that our work will be used against us or co-opted to nefarious ends.” Andrew Ridker on being a Jewish writer in the wake of Gaza. | Vulture
- Hannah Goldfield revisits Anthony Bourdain’s seminal New Yorker piece, “Don’t Eat Before Reading This.” | The New Yorker
- Mary Roach takes a look at the mysterious math behind the Brazilian butt lift. | Wired
- How fashion houses learned to embrace a literary aesthetic (or, how literature became cool again). | GQ
- Matthew Gault reports on the small Michigan town fighting against an AI datacenter with connections to nuclear weapons. | 404 Media
- “We need editors who see expertise in lived experience, and we need funders who recognize that justice journalism is foundational to democracy.” Scott Hechinger eulogizes Teen Vogue. | The Nation
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