Lit Hub Daily: September 5, 2025
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1859, Harriet E. Wilson publishes her novel, Our Nig.
- Brian Robert Moore examines autofiction, grief, and Lalla Romano’s ahead of its time masterpiece, In Farthest Seas. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Leila Chatti wrestles with not writing and the “project of staying alive.” | Lit Hub Memoir
- Failing better: Thomas Swick on the tennis player and the writer. | Lit Hub Sports
- The Lit Hub Podcast is going back to school and getting spooky! | Lit Hub Radio
- Beverly Gologorsky explores the joy and vulnerability of forging friendship through writing community. | Lit Hub Craft
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Rabih Alameddine’s The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me, and Patrick Ryan’s Buckeye all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- “I was the narrator’s manager, maybe. I was the narrator’s life coach. But I wasn’t the narrator.” On the secrets of the omniscient narrator. | Lit Hub Craft
- Michael Jerome Plunkett meditates on the unexploded mines buried across the battlefield of Verdun and writing a novel inspired by the work of France’s de-miners. | Lit Hub History
- “I never let any man see me cry, but I could let the rock see.” Emily Meg Weinstein on rock climbing and saving herself. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “For a brief moment back in 2016, the internet’s obsession was the physical and mental well-being of an English YouTuber named Marina Joyce.” Read from Beatriz Serrano’s debut novel Discontent, translated by Mara Faye Lethem. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Moumita Ghosh considers two novels of intimacies and German reunification post-Cold War. | Asymptote
- Robert Aman interviews Ilan Manouach, “our twenty-first century Marcel Duchamp.” | The Comics Journal
- Lulu Garcia-Navarro interviews Arundhati Roy: “I might be a writer with whatever is conventionally known as success. But the things I write about and the people that I write about are being beaten, even as we speak today.” | The New York Times Magazine
- “It’s basically the only place on the internet that doesn’t function as a confirmation bias machine.” On net neutrality and the editorial standards of Wikipedia. | The Verge
- Jason Parham goes to a Labubu rave, because why not? | Wired
- Elyse Graham considers R.F. Kuang and the evolution of dark academia. | Public Books
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