Lit Hub Daily: December 19, 2024

Palestine, Poe, and I Saw the TV Glow: these are our editors’ favorite Lit Hub stories of 2024. | Lit Hub Are you the asshole if you “loathe” writers who are a little too online? Kristen Arnett answers this and other awkward literary questions. | Lit Hub Craft Lit Hub published over 2,500 pieces in 2024, and these are the ones our readers clicked on the most. | Lit Hub From Ripley to My Brilliant Friend, Maris Kreizman considers her favorite book to television adaptations of 2024. | Lit Hub TV “For simply having loved, you will change; you will learn something more about the world and probably about yourself.” Katherine J. Chen rediscovers Henry James. | Lit Hub Criticism Kelli María Korducki surveys the landscape of divorce novels. | The Walrus “It turns out that, upon reflection, the Almighty’s views are pretty straightforwardly those of the average North American conservative.” Yeah, Jordan Peterson’s views of the Bible are about what you’d expect. | Jacobin How Marcella Hazan demystified Italian cooking for America. | Esquire “A solitude of being one with others and just that—being, being so deeply inside oneself that there is no outside of oneself; there is no tension between you and the world.” Roger Reeves reflects on images of Black men resting. | Emergence Magazine Troll-man-to-lover: When 17th century Swedish courts investigated supernatural love. | Atlas Obscura “When you describe yourself as a ‘writer’ but your writing has become hard to find, it creates a crisis not just of profession, but identity.” s.e. smith on what it means to be a writer on the internet (when the internet is disappearing). | The Verge