Lit Hub Daily: May 6, 2025

TODAY: In 1862, Henry David Thoreau dies. 

• “More than that, governmental creation that seeks only to speak to this infinitesimal tends to flatten communicative successful its effort to beryllium relevant.” Kevin Nguyen doesn’t deliberation we request timely novels. | Lit Hub Craft
• Jiordan Castle remembers navigating a analyzable and tumultuous relationship pinch her father. | Lit Hub Memoir
• New books by Aaron John Curtis, Rosie Stockton, Isabel Allende, and much are retired today! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• Why lawyers emotion Jane Austen: “This powerfulness to persuade, erstwhile it does succeed, often forms nan cardinal cog to Jane Austen’s plots.” | Lit Hub Criticism
• What tin a azygous instrumentality vessel tell america astir nan world economy? More than you think! | Lit Hub Politics
• Jemimah Wei discusses writing Singapore, sisterhood, and “flirting pinch nan internet.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
• “We were to coming ourselves arsenic bully immigrants. The benignant that would ne'er overstay a tourer visa, past rima disconnected astir it successful a book 3 decades later.” Jill Damatac connected family, home, and really migration splits nan self. | Lit Hub Memoir
• Dean Van Nguyen chronicles the extremist New York history down hip-hop. | Lit Hub Music
• “I liked Marvin Helgarson. He was tall, not conscionable mundane gangly but gangly moreover by Minnesota standards, though that’s not why I liked him.” Read from Lori Ostlund’s caller communicative collection, Are You Happy? | Lit Hub Fiction
• “I find its authorities detestable but its sound irresistible.” Vinson Cunningham mediates connected his love/hate narration pinch The New York Post. | The New Yorker
• John Kelly remembers legendary outsider cartoonist, comics historian, and euphony professional John Peck, besides known arsenic nan Mad Peck. | The Comics Journal
• Sam Rosenfeld considers Who Is Government, Michael Lewis’ paean to civilian service, successful nan property of DOGE. | The New Republic
• “My theory: conscionable arsenic nan Janeite has lived a amended life, they will dice a amended death—perhaps not free from existential distress but much equipped to meet it.” Wendy Anne Lee ponders really Jane Austen prepares america for death. | Broadcast
• James Chandler explains why nan Trump administration’s aggression against universities is not, actually, astir fighting antisemitism. | Los Angeles Review of Books  
• Angelica Frey examines nan value of Roy Orbison’s euphony to David Lynch’s filmography. | JSTOR Daily

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