THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

• “I see film and books as apples and oranges. Both are fruits, but the taste is remarkably different.” Stephen King reflects on the numerous adaptations of his work. | Lit Hub Film
• Publishers Hedi El Kholti and Dan Simon remember their friend Gary Indiana on the anniversary of his death: “I took Horse Crazy home with me and read it over the weekend, and I was amazed. It felt like a major personal discovery.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
• Cundill Prize finalist Lyndal Roper recommends six essential texts on the German Peasants’ War by Friedrich Engels, Peter Blickle, Gerd Schwerhoff and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• “The novel contains many such moments of almost febrile power, rendered in prose both gorgeous and a little unnerving.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
• Imaobong Umoren explains how Christopher Columbus “wreaked havoc” in the Caribbean through enslaving indigenous people. | Lit Hub History
• Evan Dando of The Lemonheads recalls how an impromptu Walgreens concert signaled the beginning of his sobriety. | Lit Hub Memoir
• Serhii Plokhy chronicles the race to develop nuclear weapons in Germany, the USSR, and Japan. | Lit Hub History
• “Adrift in an azure trance, affixed by invisible / star-points of pins to the sumptuous nothing of black / velvet, it’s as immense as the word once.” Read “Blue Morpho,” a poem by A Violence author Paula Bohince. | Lit Hub Poetry
• “Thirty-seven, Qing Yuan thought when a cleaner wheeled the corpse of a woman into the morgue. The woman’s husband, a scrawny man in a shabby work uniform, smelling of sewage, drooped behind the gurney.” Read from Ruyan Meng’s novel, The Morgue Keeper. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “We both know how boredom feels. We both know what it means to be cold, out here, wherever we both are or have been.” Harriet Armstrong considers the meanings of lol. | Granta
• Xiaolu Guo on disrupting and reinventing works in the Western canon, and “writing [as] a form of semiotic sabotage.” | Words Without Borders
• Tita Chico examines the radical power of Black global cinema. | Public Books
• What Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar can remind us about the gross mishandling of justice in the present day. | JSTOR Daily
• On the “brute simplicity” of TextEdit, for those who want their word processing without complication. | The New Yorker
• Another reason not to use AI? Turns out, LLMs get brain rot, too. | Wired

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