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Lit Hub Daily

September 15, 2025

TODAY: In 1890, Agatha Christie is born.

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Sara Stridsberg reflects on reading Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This during a time of protest in Serbia. | Lit Hub Memoir

How can parents raise readers in the age of digital distraction? “Our job as parents isn’t to eliminate technology—it’s to create intentional spaces where deep attention can ﬂourish.” | Lit Hub Technology

“Rupture is a prerequisite for reparation. Hurting couldn’t be avoided. Hurting was the point.” On bodybuilding, poetry, and transformation. | Lit Hub Craft

Susie Boyt looks at how “worlds of beauty and cruelty collide” in Barbara Pym’s The Sweet Dove Died. | Lit Hub Criticism

How the murder of Mahsa Jîna Amini sparked a revolution in Iran. | Lit Hub Politics

Read “BOY COMING OUT GAY GOING FAR TO LADY WAY TO QUEER,” a poem by Rickey Laurentiis from the collection Death of the First Idea. | Lit Hub Poetry

“I will write, without stopping, until I run out of puff.” David Greig on his creative process aboard a Nordic cruise. | Lit Hub Craft

“Leonora was also going to a party that night, though of a different kind from the one James had been invited to.” Read from Barbara Pym’s iconic novel, The Sweet Dove Died. | Lit Hub Fiction

THE LITERARY NOVEL OF THE FALL!

Readers are cheering Ron Rindo’s Life & Death & Giants, a moving story of faith, family, buried secrets, and everyday miracles. Publishers Weekly calls it, “Spellbinding… surprising and moving…This will linger in readers’ minds.”

Mahmoud Khalil talks to Nan Goldin about Palestine, protest, and hope. | Dazed

Horror author Gretchen Felkner-Martin discusses the cancellation of her run on Red Hood following comments she made about Charlie Kirk: “I had no regrets.” | The Comics Journal

Katya Schwenk considers the escalating business of college textbooks. | Jacobin

“Like Michel Foucault… Serres saw a perilous interdependence between power and knowledge that leaves discovery, innovation, and progress open to appropriation and abuse.” Zach Gibson revisits Michel Serres’s Hermes series. | Los Angeles Review of Books

Idra Novey talks to Makenna Goodman about her novel, Helen of Nowhere: “Humans and nature are not distinct entities. But when we are surrounded by human constructed worlds, like in cities, it’s easier to forget that we are animals.” | Chicago Review of Books

Take a look at Jane Austen’s playlist (or, what her sheet music collection reveals about her life and work). | The New York Times

NENE & IRA & DINA & KETO

From the Booker-nominated author of The Eighth Life, Nino Haratischwili, comes this page-turning epic about a life-changing friendship between four women in the turbulent years leading up to and after Georgia’s independence from the Soviet Union; for readers of Rebecca Makkai and Elena Ferrante

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