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Read “Cruise Control,” a New Poem by Eric Amling

Read “Cruise Control,” a New Poem by Eric Amling

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Meet Biddy Mason, the Black Matriarch Who Helped Build Los Angeles

Meet Biddy Mason, the Black Matriarch Who Helped B...

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After Nickel Mines: On Guns and Other Forms of Self-Protection

After Nickel Mines: On Guns and Other Forms of Sel...

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My Body Is a Poem: Emily Hyland In Praise of a Poetics of Physicality

My Body Is a Poem: Emily Hyland In Praise of a Poe...

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The Annotated Nightstand: What David Naimon Is Reading Now, and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What David Naimon Is Rea...

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Yiyun Li on Art, Fame, History, and Music Against the Night

Yiyun Li on Art, Fame, History, and Music Against ...

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Huzzah! Ross Douthat’s YA fantasy novel is moving from Substack to bookshelves!

Huzzah! Ross Douthat’s YA fantasy novel is moving ...

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Under threat of arrest Sally Rooney can no longer sell her books in the UK.

Under threat of arrest Sally Rooney can no longer ...

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Lit Hub Daily: October 14, 2026

Lit Hub Daily: October 14, 2026

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Is It or Isn’t It? How Generative AI is Poisoning the Literary Well For Everyone

Is It or Isn’t It? How Generative AI is Poisoning ...

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What Lies Behind a Blank Wall? On the Myriad Hidden Meanings of White Paint

What Lies Behind a Blank Wall? On the Myriad Hidde...

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Keep Hope Alive: Al Sharpton Remembers His Mentor, Jesse Jackson

Keep Hope Alive: Al Sharpton Remembers His Mentor,...

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On Medieval Europe’s Systemic Slaughter of Nonconformist Women

On Medieval Europe’s Systemic Slaughter of Nonconf...

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The Real Reason the Rent Is Too Damn High: Greed-Driven Corporate Algorithms

The Real Reason the Rent Is Too Damn High: Greed-D...

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What My Relationship With a Rescue Raccoon Taught Me About Myself

What My Relationship With a Rescue Raccoon Taught ...

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How Newspapers Helped Democratize Knowledge and Civic Participation

How Newspapers Helped Democratize Knowledge and Ci...

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The Work of Witnessing: On New Ukrainian Lit by Artur Dron, Andriy Lyubka, and Lena Lyagushonkova

The Work of Witnessing: On New Ukrainian Lit by Ar...

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Blue Sunset

Blue Sunset

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Lit Hub Daily: October 13, 2026

Lit Hub Daily: October 13, 2026

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Why Frank O’Hara is Perfect For Introducing Poetry to Tweens

Why Frank O’Hara is Perfect For Introducing Poetry...

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Adam Johnson on the Many Ways To Tell a Single Story

Adam Johnson on the Many Ways To Tell a Single Sto...

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Writer, Professor and Pen Pal: Josefine Kals Remembers Stephen Dixon

Writer, Professor and Pen Pal: Josefine Kals Remem...

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A Reckoning With Civilization Itself: How the Genocide in Gaza Reshaped the Middle East

A Reckoning With Civilization Itself: How the Geno...

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Bonnie Garmus on Writing a Coming-of-Age Novel of Poets and Poetry

Bonnie Garmus on Writing a Coming-of-Age Novel of ...

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Bonnie Jo Campbell Recommends Her Favorite Literary Ghost Stories

Bonnie Jo Campbell Recommends Her Favorite Literar...

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Bonnie Garmus, Yiyun Li, Joy Harjo, and more: 20 new books out today!

Bonnie Garmus, Yiyun Li, Joy Harjo, and more: 20 n...

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Music Against the Night

Music Against the Night

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Lit Hub Weekly: October 5 – 9, 2026

Lit Hub Weekly: October 5 – 9, 2026

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Lit Hub Daily: October 9, 2026

Lit Hub Daily: October 9, 2026

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March 5, 1933: The Election That Destroyed German Democracy

March 5, 1933: The Election That Destroyed German ...

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From Dud to Delicious: Deesha Philyaw on Raising the Stakes in Fiction

From Dud to Delicious: Deesha Philyaw on Raising t...

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Queer Recognition, Estrangement, and the Great Grey Area in Between

Queer Recognition, Estrangement, and the Great Gre...

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Jérôme Lindon, Jérôme Lindon: On the Relationship Between Jean Echenoz and His Publisher

Jérôme Lindon, Jérôme Lindon: On the Relationship ...

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How Navigating the Demands of Academia Helped Me Cope With Terrible Loss

How Navigating the Demands of Academia Helped Me C...

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Alice Elliott Dark’s Afterword to “In the Gloaming”

Alice Elliott Dark’s Afterword to “In the Gloaming...

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Roadshow

Roadshow

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Can romance novels solve the straight man reading crisis?

Can romance novels solve the straight man reading ...

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The Third Circuit finds that AI companies can’t use material with an original “creative spark.”

The Third Circuit finds that AI companies can’t us...

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Lit Hub Daily: October 8, 2026

Lit Hub Daily: October 8, 2026

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On Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy’s Decades-Long Friendship

On Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy’s Decades-Long ...

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It Begins On the Page: How Relationships Between Readers and Writers Are Made

It Begins On the Page: How Relationships Between R...

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Am I the Asshole For Ordering a Book at My Local Indie and Just… Not Picking It Up?

Am I the Asshole For Ordering a Book at My Local I...

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How an Army Librarian Brought the Joy of Reading to the Front Lines

How an Army Librarian Brought the Joy of Reading t...

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The Confident Complexity of Whitney Houston

The Confident Complexity of Whitney Houston

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Storytelling Across Genre: On Being an Anishinaabe Poet in a Fiction Writer’s World

Storytelling Across Genre: On Being an Anishinaabe...

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“Perfect Breakfast”

“Perfect Breakfast”

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T. Geronimo Johnson on Atlanta, White Supremacy, and The Occidental Book of the Dead

T. Geronimo Johnson on Atlanta, White Supremacy, a...

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Here are the winners of the 2026 Kirkus Prize.

Here are the winners of the 2026 Kirkus Prize.

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Read the winning story of the 2026 Caine Prize for African Writing.

Read the winning story of the 2026 Caine Prize for...

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Lit Hub Daily: October 7, 2026

Lit Hub Daily: October 7, 2026

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