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Lit Hub Daily: December 12, 2024
- “You never know when you’ll pick up something old, weird, and randomly incredible.” Check out the best (old) books we read this year. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “When The Onion bought Infowars, it wasn’t just poking fun but was rather leveraging the mechanics of capitalism to make a larger point about how misinformation spreads.” | Lit Hub Politics
- Find out what’s on The Afterlife Is Letting Go author Brandon Shimoda’s 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 Rémy Ngamije’s Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “I fear death, but I know what mending can be done by puncture, by pain.” Melissa Febos considers her face. | The Yale Review
- Helen Shaw cleanses her palate after Kenneth Branaugh’s 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
- “The basic business model relies on the mass appropriation of human-written text, and there simply isn’t anywhere near enough in the public domain.” Alexander Hartley on copyright in the age of ChatGPT. | Boston Review