Lit Hub Daily: April 28, 2025

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• Sam Weller connected Ray Bradbury’s underappreciated classic: “The Martian Chronicles is simply a superior book astir superior quality themes. It is subject fabrication arsenic a reflection of modernity.” | Lit Hub Criticism
• Milo Todd connected tracing and preserving trans history while penning humanities fiction. | Lit Hub History
• Forrest Gander talks to Poets.org about editing C.D. Wright and “enthusiasm for nan magic of nan word.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
• Alok A. Khroana examines William Dalrymple’s The Golden Road and nan millennia-long taste connections betwixt India and Eurasia. | Lit Hub History
• “My auntie ever hid successful nan beforehand closet whenever they started shooting.” Read “Shots Fired connected New Year’s Eve,” a poem by Ali Black from nan postulation We Look Better Alive. | Lit Hub Poetry
• Cutter Wood connected Thomas Browne and nan joys and possibilities of exploring nan unknown. | Lit Hub Craft
• “Every now and again erstwhile I person 1 of his emails, I’m ever amazed astatine really superb and hilarious he is.” Harry Bliss connected his adjacent encounters pinch Sy Hersh. | Lit Hub Memoir
• “One day, not truthful very agelong ago, he caught himself looking astatine his look mirrored successful nan model of a mini level flying from Paris to Munich.” Read from Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s caller Separate Rooms, translated by Simon Pleasance. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Mitchell S. Jackson sounds Shakespeare for nan first clip successful his 40s: “[E]ven successful this dogged civilization war—no, particularly successful this fierce warfare for nan norm of achromatic culture—I’m claiming aged William of Stratford arsenic mines, too.” | Esquire
• What does it return to constitute a cookbook? Jenn Sit, editorial head of cooking astatine Clarkson Potter, talks culinary inspiration and caller nutrient canons. | Eater
• “Kemp’s attraction camps literalize gender expectations arsenic compulsory, inescapable structures successful which group aren’t individuals but representatives of an ideal.” Arielle Isack considers nan heteropessimism of Sophie Kemp’s fiction. | The Baffler
• As Tomie dePaola’s Strega Nona turns 50, it’s yet clip to show Big Anthony immoderate appreciation. | The New York Times
• Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss inspiration, nan narration betwixt productivity and grief, and ambiance crisis. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• “Adventure, translator and alteration successful Finn Family Moomintroll are some basal and desirable, but they are besides contained wrong a reassuring framework of reliable predictability.” Sue Walsh revisits Tove Jansson’s Moomin books. | The Conversation

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