August 22, 2025 ‹
The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day
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- This week, the Lit Hub Podcast features Brittany Allen, Drew Broussard, Fiction/Non/Fiction, and a phone call from Maggie Smith! | Lit Hub Radio
- Ginny Hogan on retro tech novels for “those of us who feel like digital natives, but still remember a time before the internet.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- Stewart Home on Major J. F. C. Fuller, the occultist grifter who infused yoga with fascism. | Lit Hub Politics
- “I’ve been writing stories for a younger version of myself who didn’t see any trace of that Persian part of me reflected anywhere.” Ryan Bani Tahmaseb considers Persian stories, identity, and the US-Iran divide. | Lit Hub History
- Nicholas Boggs’ Baldwin: A Love Story, Elaine Hsieh Chou’s Where Are You Really From, and Bench Ansfield’s Born in Flames all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- Nancy Reddy explains how to trace the plot of your own life: “The most moving memoirs are the ones in which you see someone transformed.” | Lit Hub Craft
- How America’s frontier mythology contributed to the development of a national identity. | Lit Hub History
- “I saw what I saw and / I smelled pomegranates from the next street over / but it was only my imagination”. Read work by three Palestinian student poets. | n+1
- Maria Papadouris traces the evolution of the library. | JSTOR Daily
- In an attempt to fight a growing “reading crisis,” Denmark will remove the 25 percent VAT tax on books. | The New York Times
- Harley Rustad attempts to get to the bottom of a mysterious fast food whodunnit. | Toronto Life
- “There is not a great verb to describe what we were doing on the overcast beach just as high tide began to lap against the shore.” Grace Byron explores her obsession with horseshoe crabs. | The Paris Review
- Wikipedia editors are going head-to-head with the site’s founder over the use of AI. | 404 Media
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