Lit Hub Daily: September 15, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1890, Agatha Christie is born.
- Sara Stridsberg reflects on reading Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This during a time of protest in Serbia. | Lit Hub Memoir
- How can parents raise readers in the age of digital distraction? “Our job as parents isn’t to eliminate technology—it’s to create intentional spaces where deep attention can flourish.” | Lit Hub Technology
- “Rupture is a prerequisite for reparation. Hurting couldn’t be avoided. Hurting was the point.” On bodybuilding, poetry, and transformation. | Lit Hub Craft
- Susie Boyt looks at how “worlds of beauty and cruelty collide” in Barbara Pym’s The Sweet Dove Died. | Lit Hub Criticism
- How the murder of Mahsa Jîna Amini sparked a revolution in Iran. | Lit Hub Politics
- Read “BOY COMING OUT GAY GOING FAR TO LADY WAY TO QUEER,” a poem by Rickey Laurentiis from the collection Death of the First Idea. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “I will write, without stopping, until I run out of puff.” David Greig on his creative process aboard a Nordic cruise. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Leonora was also going to a party that night, though of a different kind from the one James had been invited to.” Read from Barbara Pym’s iconic novel, The Sweet Dove Died. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Mahmoud Khalil talks to Nan Goldin about Palestine, protest, and hope. | Dazed
- Horror author Gretchen Felker-Martin discusses the cancellation of her run on Red Hood following comments she made about Charlie Kirk: “I had no regrets.” | The Comics Journal
- Katya Schwenk considers the escalating business of college textbooks. | Jacobin
- “Like Michel Foucault…Serres saw a perilous interdependence between power and knowledge that leaves discovery, innovation, and progress open to appropriation and abuse.” Zach Gibson revisits Michel Serres’s Hermes series. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Idra Novey talks to Makenna Goodman about her novel, Helen of Nowhere: “Humans and nature are not distinct entities. But when we are surrounded by human constructed worlds, like in cities, it’s easier to forget that we are animals.” | Chicago Review of Books
- Take a look at Jane Austen’s playlist (or, what her sheet music collection reveals about her life and work). | The New York Times
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