Uncategorized
Lit Hub Daily: December 12, 2024
TODAY: In 1897, Rudolph Dirksโ pioneering comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids debuts in the New York Journal.ย
- โYou never know when youโll pick up something old, weird, and randomly incredible.โ Check out the best (old) books we read this year. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- โWhen The Onion bought Infowars, it wasnโt just poking fun but was rather leveraging the mechanics of capitalism to make a larger point about how misinformation spreads.โ | Lit Hub Politics
- Find out whatโs on The Afterlife Is Letting Go author Brandon Shimodaโs TBR. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- The sky is always bluer on the other side: Maris Kreizman on leaving Twitter for Bluesky | Lit Hub Technology
- Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam explore the racist roots of a moral panic. | Lit Hub History
- A generational legacy of craftsmanship in Scotland. | Lit Hub Nature
- Read an excerpt from Rรฉmy Ngamijeโs Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space. | Lit Hub Fiction
- โI fear death, but I know what mending can be done by puncture, by pain.โ Melissa Febos considers her face. | The Yale Review
- Helen Shaw cleanses her palate after Kenneth Branaughโs recent King Lear with an ode to his Shakespearean heyday. | The New Yorker
- Rebecca Makkai recommends books that capture the spirit of Chicago. | The New York Times
- โThe basic business model relies on the mass appropriation of human-written text, and there simply isnโt anywhere near enough in the public domain.โ Alexander Hartley on copyright in the age of ChatGPT. | Boston Review