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Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 1h

Here are the winners of the 2025 Kirkus Prize.

Tonight, at a ceremony in New York City, Kirkus Reviews announced the three winners of the 2025 Kirkus Prize, in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers’ Literature. These winners were selected from a list of finalists, announced in August,

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 3h

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was earlier today abducted and detained by Israeli forces after the aid flotilla on which she was traveling to Gaza was intercepted by the IDF. In a video posted to her

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 3h

HarperCollins UK is pulling copies of a book that alleges Epstein introduced Melania and Donald Trump.

HarperCollins UK is pulping copies of a recently published book about Prince Andrew over unsubstantiated rumors that have maddened the Trumps, according to The Hill, Axios, and others. Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew

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Lit Hub Daily: October 8, 2025

Ed Simon explores Americanism in Edgar Allan Poe’s work (and the abject horrors of being buried alive). | Lit Hub Criticism In case you need even more horror, Cory Doctorow explains how corporate tech enshittifies apps to skirt the law.

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 3h

How a Democracy Descends Into Murderous Fascism: On Pinochet’s Chile

It was October 17, 1998, a Saturday afternoon, when I heard the news on the radio, waiting for the football results. It was my thirty-eighth birthday. The former Chilean dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, has been arrested in London, the BBC

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 3h

To Haunt and Be Haunted: On the Exhumation of Edgar Allen Poe

Imagine that you’ve been buried alive. Don’t question the specifics, whether you’ve been kidnapped or unfortunate enough to fall victim to poorly trained pathologists and morticians, for either way you’ve been entombed in the cold earth while still breathing. Just

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 3h

How American Tech Cartels Use Apps to Break the Law

The death of competition spells doom for regulation. Competition is an essential component of effective regulation, for two reasons: First, competition keeps the companies within a sector from all telling the same lie to its regulators. Second, competition erodes companies’

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 3h

The Annotated Nightstand: What Caren Beilin Is Reading Now, and Next

Caren Beilin’s new novel, Sea, Poison, like her much of her other work, attends to the terrible realities of the medical industry and the personal effect this has on people. (She wrote about how her IUD triggered terrible rheumatoid arthritis

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 3h

Love and Sustenance: Why Indian Mothers Obsess Over Feeding Our Kids

Ma mixed boiling dal with buttered rice scooped with her fingers taste of her skin lilt of her tale in my mouth as she sang, bite after bite: one for the village children one for you –“I Have Eaten Under

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 3h

Beyond One-Note Nastiness: On Getting Inside the Head of a Despicable Character

I have always been fascinated by the question of whether our lives are determined by fate or by choice. In the final installment of The Dalton Novels, a trilogy about a small town in Maine, my characters grapple with the

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 3h

A Cross-Genre Trek: How Translation Improved My Debut Novel

When I was thirty-eight years old, in late 2017, it began to feel inexcusable that I was living out my entire life in the typical American fashion: speaking a single language. After all, I spent six of my first eight

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

A new Moomins movie is on the way.

Those loveable Finnish trolls are coming to the American movies! Writer and artist Tove Jansson created the Moomins in the 1940s and the characters have since become a global phenomenon, appearing in books, comics, TV series, movies, and theme parks

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Here are the 2025 National Book Awards finalists.

Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists in all five categories—Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature—for the 2025 National Book Awards. The winners will be announced at the 76th National Book Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time

Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon readers finding his work through movies rather than university English departments. Throughout

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

Lit Hub Daily: October 7, 2025

“The Khalidi Library represents everything the settlers cannot abide. It is a monument to, and repository of, the history and heritage of a culture they claim should not exist.” Ryan Byrnes chronicles the fight to save a medieval Palestinian library.

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On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead

Le devoir et la tâche d’un écrivain sont ceux d’un traducteur. –Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé * The duty and the task of a writer are those of a translator. –The Past Recaptured, translated by Frederick A. Blossom * The

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

Inventing Gertrude Stein, Literary Cubist

Near the beginning of The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein breaks off abruptly to address her reader—“but truly,” she adds, “I never feel it that there ever can be for me any such a creature, no it is this scribbled

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

How the Collapse of Local Journalism Led to the Erosion of Community Trust

My family had once been proud of me. In March 2011, my sister Terry went to the trouble of stuffing Post‑it notes into every issue of O, the Oprah Magazine in the checkout line of her grocery store, noting, “My

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

The Race to Save a Medieval Palestinian Library

While the golden Dome of the Rock sweltered under one-hundred-degree heat a gang of heavily armed orthodox Israelis marched on a Palestinian library. Brandishing forged documents falsely claiming their ownership of the building, they enlisted the help of Israeli police

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

Imagining a Liberated Future for Palestine

A proper imagining of liberation cannot rest content with describing the end game: the day of liberation itself and the hard work the day after. This is only the starting point. No less important is the effort to imagine the

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

Why We Write the Extra Details

Some years ago, I saw Yiyun Li interviewed at an event at the Toronto Reference Library. Li, a writer whose stories are compressed and deceptively simple, spoke with humor and a certain hardness, perhaps born of the clarity of unimaginable

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 2d

The House of Leaves-inspired game MyHouse.wad is just as trippy as you’d think.

This demon shooting video game mod might be your new favorite book. MyHouse.wad is a 2023 mod—short for modification, in this case a series of custom levels—for 1994’s Doom II, the second in a franchise of wildly influential games that

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 2d

Here are the most banned books of 2025.

As we round out #BannedBooksWeek, it’s time to observe a grim new tradition. PEN America has announced its annual most-banned-books-of-the-year list. This year’s crop of “objectionable” titles may surprise you. If we consider censored books by theme, critique of an

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 2d

Guess which top college is launching a “creator economy” program?

I’ll give you a hint. They bleed orange and blue and Dinosaur B-B-Q. Last week, Syracuse University announced the launch of a new Center for the Creator Economy. The first academic hub of its kind on a U.S. college campus,

Literary Hub @lithub.com.web.brid.gy · 2d

Ivan Klima, the best Czech novelist of his generation, has died.

One of the great Czech writers of the 20th century, Ivan Klima, died over the weekend at his home in Prague, at the age of 94. Klima lived an incredible, principled life, having survived both the Nazi concentration camp at