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Lit Hub Daily

June 18, 2025

TODAY: In 1908, Mark Twain moves to Stormfield, his house in Redding, Connecticut.

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Michelle Tea shares her favorite queer books and why she “feeds on queer literature.” | Lit Hub Reading Lists

Ira Wells on the emergence of a modern book censorship movement in Pensacola, Florida: “Many board positions were not hotly contested, and almost anyone could show up at a school board meeting and command their five minutes of airtime.” | Lit Hub Politics

Hazel Gaynor explores America’s enduring obsession with The Wizard of Oz across literature, film, and more. | Lit Hub Criticism

“The memory of these fragments is always created, as a matter of reconstruction. And creation is always hope.” Joanna Walsh on the expansive possibilities of the short story. | Lit Hub Craft

“All season I begged to be taken on a fire.” Kelly Ramsey recalls her early days with the US Forest Service. | Lit Hub Climate Change

How did a fraudulent carpet dupe the art world for decades? On tracing the history of real and fake antique textiles. | Lit Hub History

Donna Seaman recommends seven books you need to read (about reading). | Lit Hub Reading Lists

Robert Finch remembers the challenging yet rewarding days spent during one summer in rural Newfoundland. | Lit Hub Memoir

“It was the most expensive boarding school in the world, the place where American rock stars and Middle Eastern sheikhs and Russian oligarchs sent their children to polish themselves with a European gloss.” Read from Heather Clark’s new novel, The Scrapbook. | Lit Hub Fiction

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