Lit Hub Daily: November 18, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1922, Marcel Proust dies.
- Steven W. Thrasher remembers writer, advocate, and friend Alice Wong: “Alice helped decolonize disability communities of their (often) white-centered nature and acted as a bridge between so many interdependent related struggles.” | Lit Hub Biography
- Orlando Reade explores the intersection of technology, desire and uncanny doppelgangers (also, Harry Potter fan fiction). | Lit Hub Memoir
- Yeehaw! Mark Lee Gardner examines the impact of 19th century gun control on the culture of cowboys. | Lit Hub History
- How cartographers literally put fake towns on the map: “Paper towns are like background extras in movies—if you notice they’re there, they’re not doing their job properly.” | Lit Hub Humor
- The 22 new books out today include titles by Joy Williams, Cher, Solvej Balle, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Jane Ciabattari talks to Iida Turpenen, the author Of Beasts Of The Sea, about exploring our relationship with the natural world through fiction. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- How Philly businessman Albert Barnes positioned “unsellable” expressionist artist Chaim Soutine as a phenomenon. | Lit Hub Art
- “To write is to transport yourself to another world, to step into the lives of others, but also to connect yourself to those lives…” Frode Grytten on becoming a writer and growing up in Norway. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “I had been the assistant to the director for less than a year. The important qualification for the job was to have no fear of water. And I did not.” Read “The Fellow” from Joy Williams’ new collection, The Pelican Child. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Natan Last reveals the hidden politics of the crossword puzzle. | The Nation
- “I make films first and foremost about what gets under my skin and doesn’t let me go. And my skin, it was always about actually my own people.” Mira Jacob talks to Mira Nair, filmmaker and Zohran’s mom. | Harper’s Bazaar
- Carl Rollyson on Sylvia Plath’s decision to die. | The Hedgehog Review
- Cynthia Zarin traces rising fascism through Virginia Woolf’s diary entries: “A book read in a happy fog is one thing; the same pages when the world has turned to ash can be another.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
- How Stereogum is still surviving in the age of AI. | The Verge
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