The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day
TODAY: In 1695, Mexican poet, philosopher, and composer Juana Inés de la Cruz dies.
- What does being a writer look like financially? Real writers frankly discuss their incomes, expenses, and weekly budgets. | Lit Hub Craft
- “When I’m at the restaurant, that’s fully who I am; I can’t think about writing.” Six writers share accounts of working in the service industry. | Lit Hub Craft
- Eddie Ahn on growing up in his family’s liquor store, from his graphic memoir Advocate. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “I know better than to assume what works in one exceedingly popular medium won’t apply to another.” Christine Ma-Kellams considers television as a writing teacher. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Adam Kuper on how German anthropologist Gustav Klemm’s racial theories influenced the Nazis: “Klemm’s theory of cultural history was conceived on a grand scale, but it was an amalgam of ideas that were current in educated, liberal circles at the time.” | Lit Hub History
- “Writing can reassure and writing can upset, writing can disrupt.” SJ Kim on writing about and through displacement. | Lit Hub Memoir
- On Freud’s Famous “talking cure” and the long tradition of men misdiagnosing women. | Lit Hub Health
- Read from Asako Yuzuki’s novel, Butter, translated by Polly Barton. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Taylor Swift is teaming up with Spotify to launch a pop-up poetry library for the Tortured Poets Department album release. | Teen Vogue
- Daniel Bessner on how sustainable film and TV writing jobs are growing scarce, thanks in large part to streaming. | Harper’s
- A leaked New York Times memo regarding Gaza instructs journalists not to use the word genocide, among other directions. | The Intercept
- On generational differences in literary community, and how BookTok altered a regular book club hosted by an indie book shop in Montreal. | Public Books
- Ebook marketplaces are recently saturated with AI-generated grifts, but self-published ebook scams date back even further. | Vox
- Book translators are concerned about the impact of AI on their livelihoods. | The Guardian
