Lit Hub Daily: November 9, 2026
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What is the Best Literary TV Adaptation of All Time?
Who says TV rots your brain? These days, it delivers its fair share of great storytelling, whether original or adapted. But this is Literary Hub, after all, and so as the weather gets cooler, we’ll be hunkering down w...
Read article →How Online Fandom Made Me a Writer
Growing up, I always preferred fictional worlds to the real one. As an only child who struggled with social anxiety and was very much not athletically inclined, I spent most of my childhood buried in a book and daydre...
Read article →This Week in Literary History: America’s First Lending Library Gets its First Ten Members
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In 1731, Benjamin Franklin had an idea. At that time, in colonial America, books were rare, and prohibitively expensive for most people—not to...
Read article →Writing Iran’s January Massacre in a Non-Mother Tongue
To our readers: These notes were written, in conversation with one another, in the immediate aftermath of the January 2026 massacre in Iran and the concurrent internet blackout. For months, we did not even know what t...
Read article →Olivia Laing on Chronicling the World of 1970s Italian Cinema
Step into the world of The Silver Book with Olivia Laing, award-winning author of The Lonely City, Everybody, and Funny Weather, as they discuss their spellbinding new novel of art, queer love, and illusion. Laing was...
Read article →What It Means To Be a Basque Writer
“There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of
Read article →17 Books About Native American Culture to Read This November
University presses have played an important, if complex, role in the history of Native studies and more than 80 members of the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) currently publish in this field. University ...
Read article →Watching The Librarians With Librarians During Banned Books Week
On Tuesday, Oct. 6, in the middle of Banned Books Week, three intrepid high school seniors—Laird Bowser, Alec Thomsen, and Devin Protti—spearheaded a sold-out benefit screening of the 2025 documentary The Librarians i...
Read article →“Hello Daughter”
Lori hadn’t heard from Freddie in a week or so. She wasn’t even sure if she had her daughter’s current address. They don’t talk that much, but she says hi every week, and Freddie sends I’m still not dead. back.
Read article →On the Rise and Fall of Publishing’s “Make Book”
In this optimization-obsessed age, it can feel downright subversive to say that gut feelings are more valuable than statistics. But the process of making art was never a numbers game. It’s the unquantifiable qualities...
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