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Lit Hub Daily: September 24, 2026
During the season of big books, how do you choose one to read? With a flowchart, obviously. | Lit Hub How Imogen Crimp’s Give Me Everything
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Which Big Fall Book Should You Read?
It’s officially fall, and the season of Big Books is well underway. Here at Lit Hub, we’ve already told you what we think you should read, a
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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
Our smorgasbord of sumptuous reviews this week includes Anahid Nersessian on Ashton Politanoff’s Dad Had a Bad Day, Peter Beinart on Akbar S
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9 to 5: Inside The Movement That Inspired the Iconic Film
When Dolly Parton died recently, radio stations and music streamers filled our ears with her irresistible anthem, “9 to 5.” The song topped
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The Artist’s Room Is Not a Neutral Space
At the BFI, Ruby has barely finished showing her film before the tax is levied: which parts are real? The interviewer wants origins, autobio
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Sam A. Miller on YouTube Storytelling and Choosing Science Fiction
Fiction writer and popular YouTuber Sam A. Miller joins co-hosts Christian Barter and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about his debut story coll
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Sanna Wani on Crafting a Poetics of Daughterhood
I have always been a writer that draws on my personal life in my writing. The two—my creative practice and my life—often travel often side b
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How Harry Styles drove a bookseller to jail.
Harry Styles, the amphibious pop star who’s just coming off a 30 day engagement at Madison Square Garden, has made a new enemy. And I’m not
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Judy Blume and Ann Patchett are headlining a freedom to read telethon.
A group of right-to-read advocates and authors are hosting a live telethon tomorrow to draw attention to freedom to read issues and candidat
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Two great works of art to ease your transition into autumn.
To my fellow summer weary, too sweaty, beach-skeptical readers out there: We made it. We’ve officially crossed the threshold into fall, and
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Lit Hub Daily: September 23, 2026
Laura Kolbe on the poetics of subverting linear time and the derangement of “having an intimate, almost sensual relationship to the clock.”
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The True Story of the Actual First Shot Fired in the Civil War
It was the autumn of 1865—a quiet, bitter autumn after four hollowing years of war—when James Gilmore received a manuscript from a ghost. We
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The Joy of Eavesdropping as a Bookseller in an English Seaside Town
Friday, September 6 Honestly, the first thing I heard this morning as someone walked past the bookshop door I cannot even type because it in
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Fady Joudah’s Meditation on Language and Time Under Genocide
Fady Joudah’s Exhibit G is among the first of its kind. The multimedia poetry collection—assembled in the diaspora, and yet, across form, co
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How Weimar Germany’s Proportional Democracy Put Hitler in Power
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Avalon, Rise
The American Academy of Pediatrics could not explain why Martin, at seven years old, rolled around on the living room floor flapping his arm
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Here’s the shortlist for the 2026 Booker Prize.
Today, the Booker Prize Foundation announced the six books on the 2026 Booker Prize shortlist, whittled down from the “Booker’s Dozen” annou
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Singapore is paying its citizens to read. (But will it work?)
On September 6, Singapore started paying its citizens to read. As The Guardian reported, this scheme represents the city-state’s latest atte
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Lit Hub Daily: September 22, 2026
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John Green Gives Himself Permission to Suck
John Green’s new book, Hollywood, Ending, is available now from Dutton, so we asked him a few questions about favorite books, writing advice
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How the Digital Attention Economy Has Taken Over Our Real-World Lives
When I visited the Louvre Museum in Paris, I was struck by how small the Mona Lisa looked in person—a common reaction—and by how most of the
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What We Lose in the Face of Extinction
Before Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species, he spent twenty years sketching out his ideas in a series of journals called the Trans
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Opening the Door: On the Secrets Old Buildings Can Keep
It began with a mistake. A glitch in the library’s database mismatched her name to an address from her past, an error that sent letter after
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Gloria Steinem, John Green, Lucy Foley, and more: 20 new books out today!
Today, it is officially fall: does it feel like it? The gradual transition from the beating heat to the falling leaves is all around us, and
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