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Lit Hub Daily

July 8, 2025

TODAY: In 1902, writer and artist Gwendolyn B. Bennett is born.

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In case you still don’t have enough books to read, these are our 33 most anticipated sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles for the rest of 2025! | Lit Hub Reading Lists

How stoned was Shakespeare when he wrote Hamlet? Sam Kelly investigates. | Lit Hub History

“I think precocious children in fiction can be pretentious. But what are you gonna do? Write about a dumb one?” Jane Ciabattari interviews Gary Shteyngart. | Lit Hub In Conversation

Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull on William “Joe Writs” Johnson and how jailhouse lawyers save the lives of their fellow inmates. | Lit Hub Politics

20 new books out today include a new translation of Dante, a memoir of America’s Next Top Model, love amidst shipwreck, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists

It might not be possible to write a universal story, but that didn’t stop Lidija Hilje from trying. | Lit Hub Craft

Maris Kreizman, Claire Jia, Lawrence Burney, and more authors answer our burning questions about how they write. | Lit Hub Craft

“Last night she came to me again. We were in the room, facing each other on opposite beds, our legs not reaching the marble floor. We hadn’t aged at all.” Read the story “Ghosts” from Aysegül Savas’s new collection, Long Distance. | Lit Hub Fiction

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Mary Jo Bang on the importance of vernacular when translating Dante’s Paradiso to English. | Asymptote

How can design move forward as a field? Maybe it needs some literary inspiration. | The MIT Press Reader

“In such stories, crabs are a symbol of efficient, brutal evolution at its simplest.” Will humans evolve into crabs? Michael Garfield explains. | Aeon

“Like many libraries, archives, and other small organizations, Iaso discovered her Git server was getting slammed only when it stopped working.” This open-source software is fighting AI bot scrapers. | 404 Media

Jeff VanderMeer recommends his favorite cli-fi. | The New York Times

Authors wonder what the outcome of Mahmoud v. Taylor means for their books. | The Guardian

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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