{"id":307851,"date":"2025-10-16T10:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/307851\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:52:13","slug":"literary-hub-lit-hub-daily-october-16-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/307851\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Hub \u00bb Lit Hub Daily: October 16, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"story-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/noahwebster-726x400.jpg\" title=\"Lit Hub Daily: October 16, 2025\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tTHE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t TODAY: In\u00a01758,\u00a0lexicographer, textbook pioneer, and English-language spelling reformer\u00a0Noah Webster is born. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/true-america-true-crime-how-crime-writing-acts-as-an-entry-to-a-shattered-community\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Kraus on researching the the Nagamo Trail Murder and<\/a> how crime writing acts as an entry to a disconcerted community. | Lit Hub <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/craftandcriticism\/craft-and-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Craft<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cHe could not imagine then that I would write in order to find him.\u201d Hester Kaplan <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/a-biography-of-a-biographer-searching-for-my-father-on-mark-twains-farm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">looks for her father on Mark Twain\u2019s farm<\/a>. | Lit Hub <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/newsandculture\/memoir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memoir<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Titles by Gabrielle Zevin, Kate Atkinson, Matthew Desmond, and more are <a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/the-annotated-nightstand-what-susan-orlean-is-reading-now-and-next\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Susan Orlean\u2019s TBR<\/a>. | Lit Hub <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/craftandcriticism\/literary-criticism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Criticism<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sonya Lea chronicles <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/anatomy-of-a-lynching-racist-retribution-in-owensboro-kentucky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a notorious case of white supremacist violence<\/a> in Owensboro, Kentucky: \u201cNo one cared that the confessions came without counsel.\u201d | Lit Hub <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/newsandculture\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">History<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhat makes his writing distinctive is not its sameness but rather its range and variety.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/bookmarks.reviews\/5-reviews-you-need-to-read-this-week-10-16-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/bookmarks.reviews\/5-reviews-you-need-to-read-this-week-10-16-2025\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1760641485508000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1rq9jubPv0oy8iSM0dmnrV\">5 book reviews you need to read this week<\/a>. |\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bookmarks.reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/bookmarks.reviews&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1760641485508000&amp;usg=AOvVaw129lWgjZCVTKwzHTo7DgVd\">Book Marks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Caleb Klaces on books that blend text with image and <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/what-the-picture-knows-books-that-seamlessly-blend-text-and-image\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the often-overlooked role of photography in fiction<\/a>. | Lit Hub <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/newsandculture\/art-and-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThey were desperate. They\u2019d tried in vitro twice. Three adoptions had fallen through.\u201d Read \u201cBabycatcher\u201d from <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/babycatcher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian Moody\u2019s story collection, Lost in the Forest of Mechanical Birds<\/a>. | Lit Hub <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/fictionandpoetry\/from-the-novel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fiction<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kate Wagner on what happens to the humanities when \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/uchicago-debt-humanities-phd-rubenstein\/\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">many elite universities become less about learning<\/a> and more like tech incubators with a school attached.\u201d | The Nation<\/li>\n<li>Earle Havens discusses a rare books collection that <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/enchanting-imposters\/\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">celebrates the history of literary forgeries<\/a>. | JSTOR Daily<\/li>\n<li>David Trotter on Mrs. Dalloway and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/the-paper\/v47\/n19\/david-trotter\/unconditional-looking\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what Virginia Woolf owes to Jane Austen<\/a>. | London Review of Books<\/li>\n<li>\u201cArt, and speculation more generally, can commandeer the structures of the sensible, even when these are being actively produced to sustain bordering and racialized repression.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/the-border-is-a-technology-art-can-dispute-it-vora-1\/\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kalindi Vora considers the border as a technology, and art as a disruptive force<\/a>. | Public Books<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/15\/death-love-taxes-and-beauty-among-other-issues\/\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hilton Als revisits Andy Warhol\u2019s The Philosophy<\/a>, \u201ca systematic study of existence, values, dread, the universe.\u201d | The Paris Review<\/li>\n<li>Madeline Leung Coleman asks, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/susan-orlean-new-yorker-memoir-joyride-interview.html\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Can you become a Susan Orlean<\/a> without the conditions that created her?\u201d | Vulture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In\u00a01758,\u00a0lexicographer, textbook pioneer, and English-language spelling reformer\u00a0Noah Webster is born. 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