Lit Hub Daily: April 1, 2024

Lit Hub Daily

April 1

TODAY: In 1854, Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times begins serialization in his magazine Household Words.

New month, new books. Here are the best sci-fi and fantasy reads coming in April. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
We know. Sometimes lugging around a hardcover is, well, hard. Maybe these new paperbacks are exactly what you need. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
"I ate my food on the couch. Then I went upstairs and lay in bed and cried. I couldn't even explain the significance of this dish to myself." Jessica Yu on immigrant food memory and the power of a much-maligned trope. | Lit Hub Food
Ream Shukairy examines what it means to tell Muslim stories amid Islamophobia: "May we speak up the veins in our necks bulge. May we walk confidently into rooms demanding to be heard." | Lit Hub Memoir
Rod Nordland considers the enduring mysteries of cancer's effects on the human body and the unexpected symptoms of a brain tumor. | Lit Hub Health
"The paper is clean and white—she hasn't drawn her first line—so when the drop of blood falls and makes its little red mark on the page, she freezes." Read from Douglas Westerbeke's new novel, A Short Walk Through a Wide World. | Lit Hub Fiction
Hari Kunzru on apocalyptic systems thrillers. | The New York Times
Jhumpa Lahiri shares the syllabus for her recent course on the diary. | The Paris Review
"A gothic twist that Flannery O'Connor could never have imagined." Thoughts on Trump's new gig as a Bible salesman. | The Nation
You probably don't need us to tell you this, but it's a very grim time for journalism. | Vox
Examining the life and work of Raymond Williams and "radical culture in terms of 'resources for hope.'" | Dissent
It's not innovation when it's about power and money. On why tech journalism is a farce. | The Baffler