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Lit Hub Daily

July 7, 2025

TODAY: In 1881, Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio begins serialization in the first issue of Giornale per i Bambini.

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Will Potter examines the psychological and social impact of the over saturation of cruelty in the digital age. | Lit Hub Technology

“We see ourselves in the predators of the wild; to eat a coyote would feel like an act of cannibalism.” On killing a coyote. | Lit Hub Memoir

“Language-switching says something about Billy Parham’s ancestry, upbringing and his ability to survive.” Rachel Ashcroft on Cormac McCarthy and the joys of reading a book containing multiple languages. | Lit Hub Criticism

Brian Schaefer on Lunch Dances, Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri’s immersive dance-theater performance that challenges everything you’ve been taught about how to behave at the library. | Lit Hub Music

“I am finally yielding to my inner eighth grader, hoping to find the flame tenders of a forgotten American highway before time runs out.” James Dodson explores the history and legacy of the Great Wagon Road. | Lit Hub History

“School started and it was awful. ‘Predictably awful,’ as Anne Mom would say.” Read from Gary Shteyngart’s new novel, Vera, or Faith. | Lit Hub Fiction

IF DESTINY IS REAL, IS THERE SUCH A THING
AS CHANGING IT?

Explore this powerful short story from Abraham Verghese, the New York Times bestselling author of The Covenant of Water, free with Prime & Kindle Unlimited.

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“To most of us, that Carlyle was so beloved by the leader of the Nazi party is, at the least, a questionable mark against the Victorian thinker.” On Hitler, Curtis Yarvin, and why the far right loves reading Thomas Carlyle. | Public Books

Casey A. Williams chronicles the revolution and conflict sparked by Kohei Saito’s Degrowth Manifesto. | New York Review of Books

Professor Marcia Bjornerud explains time literacy (and wants you to pay more attention to rocks). | Atmos

Neha Madhira reports on the Palestinian journalists targeted for their coverage of genocide. | The Intercept

“I’ve narrated really raunchy sex scenes—AI doesn’t know what an orgasm sounds like… Birth scenes as well—I’d love to know how they plan on getting around that.” Audiobook narrators grapple with the implications of AI. | The Guardian

Wells Tower has found your luggage. | The Cut

AN EVENING WITH DANIEL SILVA

Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon must solve the perfect crime in the dazzling new tale of murder, greed, and corruption from #1 New York Times bestselling novelist Daniel Silva. This conversation will be moderated by Maxwell Anderson.

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