Lit Hub Daily: December 10, 2024

“I think the things I love and find fascinating are in fact great and fascinating and worth loving and thus naturally I think other people should love or want to love them too.” Teddy Wayne interviews five authors with new books. | Lit Hub Craft The professionals weigh in: here are the best book covers of the year, according to book cover designers. | Lit Hub Design Tobias Carroll on China Mieville and when speculative fiction starts to feel like fact. | Lit Hub Politics On reading children’s lit in a troubled world | Lit Hub Memoir From Noam Chomsky to Hannah Arendt: 15 new books out this week. | Lit Hub Reading Lists Orlando Reade on privilege, freedom and the importance of reading disobediently. | Lit Hub Memoir Read an excerpt from National Book Award winner Lily Tuck’s new novel, The Rest Is Memory. | Lit Hub Fiction Did your favorite books make the cut? Check out the best reviewed fiction of 2024. | Book Marks Celebrating an underrated Kafka story. | MIT Press Reader On the complicated relationship between writers and their work. | The Coachella Review “Munro’s relationship with Fremlin enabled her to do her greatest work — indeed, some of the greatest work ever done in the short story form. That so much of that work now reads like an indictment of the relationship is a bitter paradox.” Giles Harvey on Alice Munro’s silence. | The New York Times Magazine Walker Mimms remembers Kris Kristofferson. | Poetry A group of Nobel laureates, including JM Coetzee, Annie Ernaux, Kazuo Ishiguro and Olga Tokarczuk, have written to Keir Starmer urging him to intervene to help free the writer and British Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd el-Fattah. | The Guardian