Literary Hub » Lit Hub Daily: October 14, 2025

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

• 58 books you need to read (recommended by 42 writers, editors, and booksellers in honor of our 10th birthday!). | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• Lukas Gage recommends his favorite celebrity memoirs by Demi Moore, Pamela Anderson, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• Remembering Courtney Kampa through a posthumous collection capturing a vibrant life and creative ethos. | Lit Hub Craft
• Terry McDonell and Lance Richardson discuss Peter Matthiessen’s moral ambiguity and Bigfoot. | Lit Hub Biography
• This week’s new titles include books by Brandon Taylor, Megha Majumdar, Susan Orlean, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• Jane Ciabattari talks to award-winning playwright, poet, and novelist Quan Barry about writing a horror story set in Antarctica. | Lit Hub In Conversation
• “ I should have been a doctor like Chekhov!” Megha Majumdar, Julia Ioffe, Erin Somers and more authors answer our burning questions. | Lit Hub Craft
• “Those who returned home having come close to death would find it difficult, if not impossible, to leave the war behind them and readjust to civilian life.” David Nasaw delves into the physical and mental trauma of the Second World War. | Lit Hub History
• “That summer, they threw bombs and made signs for peace.” Read from Brandon Taylor’s new novel, Minor Black Figures. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Anna E. Clark explores Trump’s disastrous impact on American education—and what can be done. | Public Book
• Terri Lesley, a former Wyoming library director who was fired after she fought the removal of LGBTQ+ books from the shelves, has been awarded $700,000. | NBC News
• Colm Tóibín on why he established a press to publish László Krasznahorkai. | The Guardian
• “So, what these platforms aspire to is their own demise, right?” Cory Doctorow talks to Amy Goodman about Enshittification. | Democracy Now!
• How book bans continue to threaten authors’ livelihoods: “I am scared that my books won’t even get bought by publishers because they’re so queer.” | Electric Literature
• On the dialogue between Hannah Arendt and Harold Rosenberg, and why artists must take action. | Aeon

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