Lit Hub
A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
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- “Carson: There better be a gd pool.” Read from @emilynemens.bsky.social’s new novel, Clutch.
- “Let all your gentle brightness go with age / where all our ages go. Mother, goodnight. / The dying light is gone. You needn’t rage.” Read three poems by Robert Fanning from the collection, All We Are Given We Cannot Hold.
- Daniel Poppick recommends books about work by Kathryn Scanlan, Vivian Gornick, Franz Kafka, and others.
- “Their understanding of use as essentially positive underwrote the casual ways they consented to being used, particularly intellectually, by one another.” On the intellectual, political, and artistic collaboration between Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin.
- @katiekelaidis.bsky.social considers Russia’s new official dictionary as a prescriptive ideological document.
- What’s cooler than being told no? @britt-kathryn.bsky.social considers our cultural reappraisal of rejection.
- Michelle A. Williams explains how W.E.B. DuBois and James McCune Smith worked to combat American medical racism.
- Mira Ptacin on grappling with perimenopausal aphasia (and finding the word for forgetting words).
- “What I’m saying is that looking up Kai Cenat after reading about his new habit of live-streaming himself reading felt like a bouncer at a bar waving away my ID.”
- “The denial of verifiable reality is as dangerous as manufactured propaganda.” @thrasherxy.bsky.social on how, from Gaza to Minneapolis, we’re still being told not to believe what we see.
