Product that tells our story
TODAY: In 1928, the fourth and final section of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury takes place. Michael Edison Hayden traces the origins of white supremacy group VDARE and explores how extremism can invade small town American. | Lit Hub Politics “Marriage is, to my mind, the ability to contain two conflicting narratives and hold […]
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1914, Octavio Paz is born. “A story needs a single thing, a single detail that sings or does something mysterious. But if you think about this too much, the idea you have for that single thing fades away or seem preposterous.” Colm Tóibín discusses his new collection, […]
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1926, Frank O’ Hara is born. Langston Hughes, translator? Ricardo Wilson II explores the writer’s experience in Mexico and his struggle to bring Mexican and Cuban writers to American audiences. | Lit Hub Biography “Alongside noting each season’s nod to diversity, there has been a steady critique […]
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1905, Jules Verne dies. Cecile Pin recommends astronaut books by Samantha Harvey, Eliana Ramage, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists Thomas Dekeyser explores the psychology behind stigmatizing those who reject technology. | Lit Hub Technology “After Gaza, it is time to recognize that […]
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1850, The Scarlet Letter is published. On channeling grief into other worlds and the potential of possibility as a literary device. | Lit Hub Craft “Bedsits, jumble sales, heartaches assuaged by hot drinks—it turns out that Barbara Pym’s touchstones are as resonant as ever.” In praise […]
Dabble is pushing further into the United States, adding Colorado to its growing list of live markets. The Austin-based daily fantasy sports app said on Monday (February 23) that players in Colorado can now access its platform, making it the company’s 31st active state as it continues to widen its reach in regulated jurisdictions. The […]
TODAY: In 1891, Welsh-language author Kate Roberts is born. LETTERS FROM MINNESOTA: Sun Yung Shin on the ever-shifting meanings of US citizenship • Michael Torres on life in the lens of authoritarianism. | Lit Hub Politics Don’t have a real date for Valentine’s Day? Pick up a romance novel about fake dating instead. | […]
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1898, Bertolt Brecht is born. LETTERS FROM MINNESOTA: Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl on the brutal impact of ice on Twin City businesses • Nimo H. Farah on refusing to mistake silence for safety. | Lit Hub Politics Why do fascists fetishize the classics? Ed Simon has some thoughts. […]
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1909, Simone Weil is born. “I take both my Jewishness and my Americanness as honors and responsibilities.” Lily Meyer on Philip Roth, anti-Zionism, and her relationship to American Judaism. | Lit Hub Memoir Toni Morrison considers Blackness in the literary canon and what Flannery O’Connor’s fiction reveals […]
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1884, author, pacifist, and ACLU co-founder Roger Nash Baldwin is born. Ed Simon explores the history of technologically assisted writing and the long legacy of tension between human creativity and mechanical efficiency. | Lit Hub Technology How the Universal Friend, America’s first nonbinary minister, preached equality and salvation […]
