Lit Hub Daily: October 2, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1904, Graham Greene is born.
- Emma Straub talks to Lily King about campus novels, time jumps, and her new book, Heart the Lover. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “It’s in trying to reach beyond our limited selves that we are, I believe, most human.” Ilana Masad on the importance of research in navigating the fact and fiction of alien abduction stories. | Lit Hub Craft
- Kate Colby on drawing inspiration from Edward Hopper’s Cape Cod Morning and how poetry can save the human brain. | Lit Hub Art
- “How beautiful cemeteries are…. Where the name and the date remain, a voice that says: I was here, now I’m gone.” Mariana Enriquez on burying Argentina’s disappeared. | Lit Hub
- “A magnificent and lovable work—both page-turning and coolly visionary.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- What’s on Anton Hur’s TBR? Books by Han Kang, Irenosen Okojie, Siang Lu, and more! | Lit Hub Criticism
- Look inside the conceptually innovative spaces that house China’s new wave of bookstores. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “My father was a gardener. Now he’s a garden.” Read from Georgi Gospodinov’s novel Death and the Gardener, translated by Angela Rodel. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “There is no medical training for this, no papers to help guide me – nor should there be.” Mina Naguib documents the impossible choices of providing medical care in Gaza. | Granta
- Jessiva Olin explores the Amanda Knox media-industrial complex. | London Review of Books
- What does prestige even mean now when it comes to television? “Flash forward 10 years. The bubble has burst…” | Public Books
- Emma Cline considers travel stories, the romanticization of Italy, and Dinah Brooke’s Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady. | The Paris Review
- Joshua Finnell looks at the history and enduring value of student newspapers. | JSTOR Daily
- Is your chatbot manipulating you? Probably. | Wired
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