Lit Hub Daily: September 10, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1999, Fight Club, based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel, premieres at the Venice Film Festival.
- What does it actually mean that Bingley has “four or five thousand a year?” John Mullan examines the dramatic role of money in the works of Jane Austen. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “I’ve talked them off cliffs and out of rage-quitting. I thought I knew what to expect.” On when the agent becomes the author. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Linda-Marie Barrett thinks that you (yes, you!) need to join a book club. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Beth Kephart meditates on the art of constructing fiction from facts. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Every night she tries to think of something that would / get him to spare the children.” Read “Night Terrors,” a poem by Sharon Olds from the 45th anniversary edition of Satan Says. | Lit Hub Poetry
- Nathaniel Moore reads Patricia Lockwood, Rachel Yoder, and Charlotte Wood while examining the rising phenomenon of conservatism of contemporary literary fiction. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “A single white egg rattled around the bottom of a small pot. At the local Miyoshi Mart, a carton of ten cost 198 yen—the cheapest option around here.” Read from Natsuo Kirino’s novel Swallows, translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Paisley Rekdal recounts the professional costs of criticizing the Trump administration. | The New York Times
- “Perhaps the Post-NAFTA Novel will abandon its predecessor’s sometimes neurotic insistence on transnational legibility”: Nicholás Medina Mora on Mexican fiction, made in America. | The Baffler
- Sara Giordano considers the myth of scientific objectivity. | The Conversation
- Grace Byron examines how the most toxic marriages between politics and aesthetics are waging a war against trans art. | The New Yorker
- “One can see an arc running from Spain’s conquest of the Americas to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.” Alexander Aviña talks to author and historian Greg Grandin. | Public Books
- How a county in Oregon failed its public library. | Book Riot
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