Lit Hub Daily: October 6, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1979, Elizabeth Bishop dies.
- How Palestinian teacher Ikram Talaat Ahmed transformed Gaza’s displacement tents into schools: “We are nearing the end of the academic year, yet the Israeli war on Gaza continues.” | Lit Hub Politics
- “To me, writing about sex work has always been writing about class. About struggle. About cavities and electric bills—the things most of us worry about.” Michelle Gurule on writing about sex work. | Lit Hub Craft
- Why Mira Ptacin thinks it’s okay that her son doesn’t like to read. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Mark Harman examines the striking social commentary of Franz Kafka’s Amerika. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “There’s something cathartic about reading about the end of the world.” When dystopian fiction gets a little too real. | Lit Hub Craft
- Victoria Redel on returning to a once-abandoned story and mining the creative unconscious for inspiration. | Lit Hub Art
- Patricia Smith considers growing older and forging connection through poetry. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “Since he not only writes but likes to go over to the other side and read what others write, Lucas is surprised sometimes at how difficult it turns out to be for him to understand some things.” Read from Julio Cortázar’s novel A Certain Lucas, translated by Gregory Rabassa. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “If the world cannot stop the genocide against us, then at least let it carry our stories. We may not be able to protect our lives, but we can fight to ensure that our story is told.” Mohammed al-Sawwaf on the impossible choice of leaving Gaza or staying to tell his people’s stories. | The Nation
- Elisa Gabbert writes a postmortem for Best American Poetry. | The New York Times
- Matthew Wills examines the history of the Soviet dissident memoir. | JSTOR Daily
- “In all the years I’d spent amassing my modest library, it had never occurred to me that I might one day have to weigh a book against a piece of bread for my children.” Muhammad al-Zaqzouq on experiencing hunger in Gaza. | The Paris Review
- Mark Migotti explains why he can’t stop reading P.G. Wodehouse. | The Walrus
- Dylan Fugel wants you to name a 28 year old (it’s harder than it seems). | Defector
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