Lit Hub Daily: November 6, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1936, following the outcome of United States v. One Book Called Ulysses and the first American edition of the novel, the first edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses printed in England is published by The Bodley Head.
- Maris Kreizman on AI, the future, and the ongoing devaluation of the arts: “For years we’ve been grappling with the collapse of the creative middle class due to corporate greed.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- What’s on Dorothea Lasky’s TBR? Emma Cline, Bernadette Mayer, Han Kang, and more! | Lit Hub Criticism
- Director Abel Ferrara remembers the mob-backed porno he shot in the earliest stage of his career. | Lit Hub Film
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“I seemed to be reading a 1970s-Laurel Canyon version of My Brilliant Friend.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- How Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham’s relationship inspired Daisy Jones & the Six. | Lit Hub Music
- Atash Yaghmaian meditates on finding freedom by writing in English. | Lit Hub Craft
- Elena Sheppard on connecting with her Cuban grandfather through archival research: “I saw quickly and clearly that in many ways our minds were stuck in the same loops.” | Lit Hub Memoir
- “I can hold on now only to Pom. The rest of them have already taken what they need from me.” Read from Cynthia Zarin’s new novel, Estate. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Andrew Leland explores how deaf writers are reimagining language, text, and sound. | The Baffler
- Amardeep Singh, who (literally) wrote the book on Mira Nair’s films, considers what Zohran Mamdani learned from the ethics of his mother’s work. | Pittsburgh Review of Books
- On Hannah Arendt’s refugee politics and “the power of the conscious pariah.” | Public Books
- Cat Fitzpatrick traces the history of a mid-90s trans punk zine, Gendertrash From Hell. | Defector
- Tammi Morton-Kelly talks to Mimi Pond about translating The Mitford sisters to the page. | The Comics Journal
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