Lit Hub Daily: November 5, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1940, Charles Lindbergh wins the presidency over Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America.
- “I could only make good art if I made bad art, too, and so I began making bad art an integral part of my creative practice.” In praise of making bad art. | Lit Hub Craft
- Amber McBride recommends 10 novels in verse by Anne Carson, Ibi Zoboi, Jason Reynolds, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Maximilian Kasy considers the future of AI and explains why “technology is not fate.” | Lit Hub Technology
- Why carbon offsetting (and big business) will not save the planet. | Lit Hub Climate Change
- Georgi Gospodinov and his translator, Angela Rodel, discuss loss and writing about death. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Michael McFaul on how Trump’s isolationist policies challenge the liberal international order. | Lit Hub Politics
- “You’re not a satirist. It’s just not your mode of processing the world, and it’s not serving the story.” How Brian Schaefer learned to embrace idealism. | Lit Hub Craft
- “My son finds me at the edge of the pool with a second drink, working through the Sunday crossword on my phone.” Read from Kevin Moffett’s National Book Award-longlisted novel, Only Son. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Karen Weingarten revisits Larry Lader’s controversial 1966 book Abortion, which “proclaimed loudly that all abortion laws should be repealed, that there was no shame in seeking an abortion, and that without legal abortion women would never be free.” | Public Books
- James Somers explores the uncanny similarities between large language models and the human brain. | The New Yorker
- “Vitalism stands, or falls, on its relationship to liberal egalitarianism, sexual difference, and one’s stance on HR departments.” Tara Isabella Burton considers the rise of vitalism. | The Hedgehog Review
- Jack Rodolico explains what a series of high-profile art heists has to do with the publication of the Social Register. | Atavist
- “I am constantly using rationalistic jargon to talk about the least rational ideas: a poem’s dumb desires, its fugitive wants.” Maggie Millner on the mechanics of poetry scholarship. | Granta
- Aniko Bodroghkozy reads recent books on the far-right’s 2017 attacks in Charlottesville. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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