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On the latest episode of The Lit Hub Podcast: A look ahead at book trends in 2025, remembering David Lynch, and what we can learn from the activism of Ursula K. Le Guin. | Lit Hub Radio

“Remember that every bit of worldbuilding that makes it to the page adds to the set, and stage space is limited.” Erika Swyler on the art of worldbuilding. | Lit

Hub Craft

James H. Sweet chronicles the mystery of the Black Prince’s shipwreck and the complex history of anticolonial mutinies. | Lit Hub History

On racial capitalism, coercion, and the reality of college football: “Everything in college football is about making money . . . except if you’re a so-called student-athlete. Then you can’t make any money. You’re not allowed to.” | Lit Hub Sports

Aria Aber’s Good Girl, Colette Shade’s Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything, and Pico Iyer’s Aflame all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum recommends books about wild girls by Sarah Moss, Jamaica Kincaid, Carson McCullers and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

Caroline Eden writes in praise of the magnificent melon and its long journey from Central Asia to Western Europe. | Lit Hub Food

Kyle Paoletta explores language, survival, and failed human efforts to conquer the desert. | Lit Hub Nature

“This was where the bag of milk would be, defrosting, if he’d only remembered to defrost it.” Read from Andrew Lipstein’s novel, Something Rotten. | Lit Hub Fiction

A raw, gritty novel of a young Afghan-German woman's year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery.

David Lynch has died at 78. | The New York Times

“It wouldn’t be accurate to even call it a battle. More a full-scale appropriation of place.” Mya Frazier chronicles the ongoing struggle between data and land. | Switchyard 

Amna A. Akbar on How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Luigi Mangione, and “a surge in genuine curiosity about the need for radical action.” | n+1

“I made a fair number of friends in the years after I became a writer. In those years, when I was fighting for fame and wealth, I realized that friends changed like the seasons.” Jia Pingwa reflects on friendship. | Granta

Is your local librarian a spy? Probably not, but Greg Barnhisel looks at the World War II-era librarians and scholars who were. | The New Republic

Ellen Wexler considers Zora Neale Hurston’s obsession with the biblical villain Herod the Great. | Smithsonian Magazine

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