Lit Hub Daily: October 29, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1924, Frances Hodgson Burnett dies.
- Shane Hinton explains why writers should consider giving their books away for free. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Del Toro loves monsters—misunderstood, sympathetic monsters—and Shelley’s Creature is the primogenitor of this tradition.” Olivia Rutigliano praises Guillermo Del Toro’s new adaptation of Frankenstein. | Lit Hub Film
- Philippa Gregory looks at what we can learn about standing up to tyranny from the rule of classic despot Henry VIII. | Lit Hub History
- Teresa Dzieglewicz considers documentary poetics in the shadow of smothering institutional power. | Lit Hub Politics
- Inspired by her dog Tobi, Andrea Cáceres shares some illustrated affirmations for the canines in your life. | Lit Hub Art
- On the thankless jobs of the woodsmen who watch over England’s Chiltern Hills. | Lit Hub Nature
- J. Malcolm Garcia documents life, death, and poverty in the neighborhood of Alabama Village: “The idea that someone would shoot him made no sense. Everyone liked him.” | Lit Hub Biography
- Scott Miller on the Indian revolutionaries who planned to overthrow the British Raj (from America). | Lit Hub History
- “I was twenty-eight years old and till then had held my nose to be, if not beautiful, at least wholly inoffensive, in keeping with the rest of me.” Read from Luigi Pirandello’s novel One, None, and a Hundred Grand, translated by Sean Wilsey. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Rhian Sasseen considers Ron Padgett’s meditations on mortality. | The Nation
- “What do all the fragments add up to, beyond fulfillment of the fantasy of publication?” Greta Rainbow on the state of the braided essay. | Dirt
- What would W.E.B. Du Bois have to say about the demolition of the East Wing? | Jacobin
- How Elon Musk’s AI-powered Wikipedia clone reveals the incredible humanity of the internet’s free encyclopedia. | 404 Media
- “Perhaps the most deliciously empowering scene of pushback, though, doesn’t appear in any of the versions of Gaslight that are currently accessible.” Nora Gilbert investigates a lost version of the play that eventually became the iconic movie. | Public Books
- Barry Schwabsky considers modernity in the context of translating Baudelaire. | The Point
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