Lit Hub Daily: July 15, 2025

TODAY: In 1904, Anton Chekhov dies. 

• “As I began to embrace and celebrate Romani culture and history as an adult, I came to realize that an inkling of that ancestral traveling lifestyle may have survived within me.” Madeline Potter on letting the Roma narrate their own story. | Lit Hub History
• Richard Mabey considers the virtues of working with nature instead of competing with it: “We are cousins, at roughly calculable (if huge) degrees of removal, to every organism that has ever lived.” | Lit Hub Nature
• This week’s new books include titles by Hannah Pittard, Katherine Larson, Natalie Guerrero, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• Tracing the evolution of popular vernacular (or, how TikTok is transforming the English language). | Lit Hub Technology
• Mari Andrew explores nature’s many ways of knowing, from science and philosophy to magic. | Lit Hub Memoir
• “Long before I settled in this part of the world, I was a guest, and everything was so unfamiliar to me that I had to be led: here is how to buy the Metro-North ticket, and to find your train.” Read from Jackie Thomas-Kennedy’s new novel, The Other Wife. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “The only journalism business strategy that works, and that will ever work in a sustainable way, is if you create something of value that people (human beings, not bots) want to read or watch or listen to, and that they cannot find anywhere else.” Why media’s pivot to AI will inevitably end in failure. | 404 Media
• Jonathan Lethem on the joy of discovering the work of the Italian surrealist writer Dino Buzatti, which “could hardly be more timely.” | The New York Times
• Eileen Myles recalls friend break-ups, both messy and silent. | Granta
• What does a mycologist discuss with a poet? Giuliana Furci and Cecilia Vicuña find out. | Interview
• Adam Aleksic explores how the language of incels invaded our collective vocabulary. | The Verge
• Charlie Jane Anders considers the politics of POV. | Reactor

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