Lit Hub Daily: October 22, 2026

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TODAY: In 1919, Doris Lessing is born.

There volition ne'er beryllium different Wikipedia, “one of the strangest and astir outlandish successes of its time.” | Lit Hub Technology
In grant of their caller book, Stellar Smoke, we asked Tanaïs immoderate questions about writing, Mulholland Drive, and more. | Lit Hub In Conversation
Are books over? Are you the asshole if you deliberation so? | Lit Hub Advice
Steven Thrasher looks astatine 3 caller books that analyse Joe Biden’s enactment for Israel and his narration with the press. | Lit Hub Politics
“Sometimes Hanawalt’s position veers into the horrifying, and the modulation from Richard Scarry to Extremely Scary tin beryllium shocking.” 5 publication reviews you request to work this week. | Book Marks
Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
Why are we truthful uneasy astir pubic hair? Judy Wearing explores perceptions of women’s bodies crossed times and cultures. | Lit Hub History
On the Puritan’s bequest and the contradictions of American power: “In America, founded by Puritans yet propelled by markets, the struggle betwixt self-abnegation and self-indulgence has been uniquely sharp.” | Lit Hub History
“Outside, we play House. My relative Mandy, my relative Yangyang, and me.” Read from K-Ming Chang’s caller novel, Needlemouth. | Lit Hub Fiction
“But however bash you alteration minds? Tsai, Chang, and Chiang each responded the mode 1 would expect bookstore owners to: the transformative powerfulness of reading.” Kelly Kong reports connected Taiwan’s “bookstore revolution.” | The Nation
“You wage attraction to his attention.” A.O. Scott connected John Berger’s antidote to the infinite scroll. | The New York Times Magazine
How psychedelics became the technofascist cause of choice. | Dissent
What happens erstwhile publications support pivoting to Substack? | Defector
Willis Jenkins remembers Wendell Berry, “the farmer-prophet of agrarian Kentucky.” | The Hedgehog Review
Stores can’t support Sally Rooney’s books successful stock aft it was announced that they’ll nary longer beryllium sold successful the UK. | The Guardian

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