Lit Hub Daily: November 4, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1948, T.S. Eliot is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita explore the “close friendship” between Sor Juana Inés and Vicereine María Luisa. | Lit Hub Biography
- What’s the most scientifically accurate way to write about time travel? “I found I could expound on quantum consciousness all I wanted, but it all meant nothing to my greater project if I couldn’t find a way for these concepts to include real people.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Tracy Borman explores the royal drama of the altered manuscript depicting the naming of Queen Elizabeth I’s heir. | Lit Hub History
- The 25 new books out today include titles by Margaret Atwood, Bryan Washington, Salman Rushdie, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Thomas Beller on why he saw The Bad News Bears ten times in theaters as a 9-year-old: “Perhaps it was this feeling of paternal resurrection, or at least redemption, that had me coming back to the theater again and again.” | Lit Hub Memoir
- Sarah Montague considers the poetics of listening and recommends three audio narratives to reshape your imagination. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “Taking back language is about a power struggle.” Claire Dederer talks to Jodi-Ann Burey about speechwriting, authenticity, and adapting a TED Talk into a book. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Ryan Goldberg makes the case for birdwatching in the winter and fall. | Lit Hub Science
- “Feranmi Falodun (the one who was cursed) was rumoured to be an especially beautiful woman.” Read from Oyinkan Braithwaite’s novel, Cursed Daughters. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Chris Lehmann breaks down the taxonomies of Trump novels. | The Baffler
- “She never claimed that her approach was easy, inexpensive, or suited to everyone, only that her guidance was there for anyone who heard the call.” Hannah Goldfield on the surprising endurance of Martha Stewart’s Entertaining. | The New Yorker
- Tariq Ali remembers radical journalist and historian Richard Gott. | Verso
- Lana Lin on the literary and bodily significance of the appendix: “I have no conscious explanation for the bruise that sat below and to the side of the triangle of incisions on my abdomen.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Gina Gagliano interviews Mariko Tamaki about the differences between writing prose and writing comics, telling queer stories, and more. | The Comics Journal
- Mike Hill on giving Frankenstein’s monster a new look. | The Verge
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