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July 10, 2025

TODAY: In 1640, Aphra Behn is born.

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From Gilded Age novels and beyond, Brittany Allen traces the history of the literary billionaire. | Lit Hub Criticism

“But action is prayer / for the poor and/or / ill; just makes equal / stone and jewel.” Remembering the great Fanny Howe. | Lit Hub

How does a critic write a novel about critics? Charlotte Runcie explores the relationship between artists and reviewers. | Lit Hub Craft

Most advice is subjective, but this isn’t: if you write with AI, you’re definitely the asshole. | Lit Hub Advice

Tracy Slater chronicles the story of Elaine Yoneda, “the only Jewish woman incarcerated in any of the camps for Japanese Americans” and her family. | Lit Hub History

“A book about the destruction of bohemia and the nightmare of trying to live—let alone make art—with very little money.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks

Joanna Howard explores the impact of her mother’s passion for film on her own storytelling: “Most readers won’t notice these undercurrents, unless they had an upbringing like mine, but they remain in the work.” | Lit Hub Craft

“When the fires rage towards my home, I turn in bed, dreaming of you.” Read from Raaza Jamshed’s new novel, What Kept You? | Lit Hub Fiction

GARY SHTEYNGART IS BACK!

A poignant, bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country rapidly coming apart—told through the eyes of their wondrous 10-year-old daughter.

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“Now, a normal journalistic outfit might find this kind of thing embarrassing, especially so when other reporters… sit up and take notice.” How America’s newspaper of record continues to fail the public. | The Verge

Tegan O’Neil takes you inside the 1982 DC Comics style guide. | The Comics Journal

Yooj Chun explores what it means to read Han Kang during political crisis in South Korea. | Public Books

Chloe Garcia Roberts’ interview with the late Fanny Howe: “Generally, I wouldn’t want to be trapped with other writers, ever.” | The Paris Review

“Options beget options.” Lisa Borst on the novel-to-prestige-TV pipeline. | n+1

“History is a house filled with guns, not under lock and key, but scattered all over the house, fully loaded.” Brandon Shimoda considers the echoes of Japanese American incarceration in Trump’s cruel anti-immigrant policies. | The Baffler

THE LONG-AWAITED COLLECTION FOR BOTH MEN AND NORMAL READERS, IT'S...

Definitely not a deeply felt collection of transsexual short stories, engaged in dissident metaphysical investigation of the normative tenets of gender in our society! Bro, how could you say that?

“Outrageously funny.” –Paul Harding

“Irresistible.” –Andrea Lawlor

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