Lit Hub Daily: October 30, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1811, Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is published.
- Our list of October’s best book covers also includes some bonus covers from September! | Lit Hub Design
- Speaking of book covers, Celia Mattison wants to know: Why do so many of them have sheep? | Lit Hub Art
- Books by Claire Bishop, David Mamet, Nayantara Roy, and more are among the 21 titles out in paperback in November. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Chelsea G. Summers and Jessica Stoya discuss John Cleland’s Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, one of the earliest pieces of English prose erotica: “There is this strange writerly fixation on the very limits of trying to tell these kinds of stories and trying to do this narrative work without getting dirty.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Yes, you’re still the asshole if you use AI to write your novel. | Lit Hub Advice
- “A fascinating book for all the wrong reasons. It was dated before it arrived at the printers, perhaps before it was even written.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Spooky season is nearing its end, but Frankenstein (and other pieces of literary film and TV) is coming to a screen near you in November. | Lit Hub Film
- Our friends at AudioFile Magazine share the most anticipated audiobooks of the upcoming month by Mona Awad, Ray Bradbury, Susan Orlean, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Even if it’s just a brief nap, like this half-hour one, afterward you have to start all over again.” Read from Daniele Del Giudice’s novel A Fictional Inquiry, translated by Anne Milano Appel. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “It’s easier to put your hand in the next guy’s pocket if he’s illiterate.” Noah McCormack on literacy and class. | The Baffler
- Jesmyn Ward explores her connection to hip-hop, and home: “We’ll make art that celebrates and insists on our being.” | Orion
- Jon Day explores the ghoulish appeal of haunted houses. | London Review of Books
- “In Notley’s work especially, punctuation gives shape to that self-awareness.” Will Harris meditates on The Descent of Alette. | Granta
- Why the stories of radical Italian children’s author Gianni Rodari, which aren’t only for kids, still feel fresh today. | New York Review of Books
- Someone keeps stealing The Queer Bible from a Catholic church in Switzerland. | Them
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