Lit Hub Daily: September 10, 2026

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Stef Ferrari recommends incredibly earnest novels by Tayari Jones, Rufi Thorpe, Becky Chambers, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
If your spouse hates reading, should you dump them? Kristen Arnett dishes retired immoderate literate blistery takes. | Lit Hub Advice
Jill Lepore explores why the US constitution was designed to beryllium amended, from her Cundill Prize-shortlisted book, We the People. | Lit Hub History
“He writes successful a benignant of thespian-bro argot, spiking locker-room jokes with rococo connection choices similar a frat-house Faulkner.” 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
How reflection deepened the narration between Anna Heyward and her dog. | Lit Hub Memoir
Why Marian Anderson loved Schubert: “Was proceeding Roland Hayes and, successful time, different inspiring artists sing Schubert, Brahms, and Schumann songs similar being beckoned by a philharmonic brook to spot her instincts and travel its improbable path?” | Lit Hub Music
“They accidental we’re a municipality afloat of losers. They accidental we’re eccentric, eclectic—marginal. Maybe I’m exaggerating.” Read from Jed Perl’s caller novel, We Never Called It Frisco. | Lit Hub Fiction
“Genocide is not conscionable the demolition of a people, it is besides the obliteration of that people’s store of memories and, with it, the demolition of their quality to spot themselves historically.” J.M. Coetzee and F.M. Siccardi bespeak connected increasing up successful the shadiness of assemblage genocide, successful South Africa and Argentina, respectively. | Equator
Lucy Sante’s encounters with celebrated writers, from the “highly esteemed but not celebrated successful the accustomed way” to the reclusive, successful ample headphones. | The Yale Review
“How distressing — adjacent traumatic — should warfare reportage be?” Nick Holdstock connected Ukraine and reporting connected war. | The Dial
Joe Sacco discusses Gaza, comics journalism, and hanging retired with mean people. | Jacobin
Warren Bernard, enforcement manager of the Small Press Expo, talks to Jason Bergman astir small property publishing, aboriginal contributions to the Library of Congress, and collecting fundamentally everything. | The Comics Journal
What if America was called the “United States of the Earth”? Greg Daugherty explores however a state got its name. | Smithsonian Magazine

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