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· 1mo ago

Lit Hub Daily: August 18, 2026 https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-august-18-2026/ #Books #Literature #Culture

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Lit Hub Daily: August 18, 2026

What Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel can teach us about grief, literature, and growing up. | Lit Hub TV Florence Hazrat explores the surprisingly controversial history of the parenthesis. | Lit …

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· 1mo ago

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week https://lithub.com/5-book-reviews-you-need-to-read-this-week-9-3-2026/ #Books #Literature #BookReviews

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· 1mo ago

What Measuring the Carbon Footprint of a Rock Concert Reveals About Corporate Complicity https://lithub.com/what-measuring-the-carbon-footprint-of-a-rock-concert-reveals-about-corporate-complicity/ #Environment #Music #Culture

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· 1mo ago

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction https://lithub.com/the-independent-press-top-40-bestsellers-nonfiction-33/ #Books #Publishing #Nonfiction

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the American Booksellers Associatio…

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· 1mo ago

"Dogs in Guatemala" https://lithub.com/dogs-in-guatemala/ #Fiction #Literature #ShortStories

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· 3w ago

Are library e-books really hurting book sales? https://lithub.com/are-library-e-books-really-hurting-book-sales/ #Books #Libraries #Ebooks

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Are library e-books really hurting book sales?

A study released at the top of this month found that e-lending at public libraries could be having a negative effect on the book market. In other words? Your Kindle has some explaining to do. Commi…

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· 3w ago

The Conveniences I Used to Write a Book About Inconvenience (Definitely Not AI) https://lithub.com/the-conveniences-i-used-to-write-a-book-about-inconvenience-definitely-not-ai/ #Writing #Books #Technology

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The Conveniences I Used to Write a Book About Inconvenience (Definitely Not AI)

After a few months, I got used to the sarcasm. If I told a friend I was writing a book called Against Convenience, they’d ask whether I was planning to write it by hand, whether I’d use spell-check…

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· 3w ago

Looking in the Mirror of My Past as a Korean Adoptee in the United States https://lithub.com/trying-to-look-into-the-mirror-of-my-past-as-a-korean-adoptee-in-the-united-states/ #Memoir #Identity #Adoption

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Looking in the Mirror of My Past as a Korean Adoptee in the United States

“A second surface mirror, also known as a standard or regular mirror, creates a ghosting effect (double image).” ______________________________________________________________ “Displaced peo…

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· 2w ago

Nine Books of Poetry About Breakups (and Awakenings) https://lithub.com/nine-books-of-poetry-about-breakups-and-awakenings/ #Poetry #Books #Literature

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Nine Books of Poetry About Breakups (and Awakenings)

We often experience breakups as private deaths. The severing of an intimate relationship means giving up a vision of life together. One mourns the beloved, the shared past, and the expected future,…

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· 2w ago

The Lonely Girl's Vegetable Patch https://lithub.com/the-lonely-girls-vegetable-patch/

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The Lonely Girl’s Vegetable Patch

I never expected horses to become a theme in my life. When I was a young girl, I didn’t see them as animals so much as a child’s bedroom aesthetic, something that other girls—not me— chose to decor…

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· 2w ago

Going Inside the Board Book with Jon Klassen https://lithub.com/going-inside-the-board-book-with-jon-klassen/

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Going Inside the Board Book with Jon Klassen

Jon Klassen’s books stay with kids. Maybe because they watch you saucer-eyed as you’re reading them. His latest, The House With Nobody In It, is a board book shaped like a house, with cutouts for d…

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· 2w ago

Antonella Lettieri On Translating Roberta Recchia's All That is Left of Life https://lithub.com/antonella-lettieri-on-translating-roberta-recchias-all-that-is-left-of-life/

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Antonella Lettieri On Translating Roberta Recchia’s All That is Left of Life

Toward the end of 2023, I was approached to translate Roberta Recchia’s debut novel All That is Left of Life. The book was still a few months away from publication in Italy, and Recchia’s name wasn…

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· 2w ago

Sally Rooney just defeated a data center. https://lithub.com/sally-rooney-just-defeated-a-data-center/ #Literature #ClimateAction #Protest

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Sally Rooney just defeated a data center.

Here’s a rare piece of heartening tech news to buoy you toward the weekend: A West of Ireland data center objected to by novelist Sally Rooney has just had its planning permission overturned …

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· 2w ago

Here's what's making us happy this week. https://lithub.com/heres-whats-making-us-happy-this-week-sep1826/ #Books #Culture #Autumn

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Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

Happy Friday, readers. Your friendly neighborhood Lit Hub staff are getting our kicks this week from simple things. Like good gags, surprise fruit, and easily navigated research databases. Molly Od…

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· 1w ago

The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction https://lithub.com/the-independent-press-top-40-bestsellers-nonfiction-36/ #Books #Nonfiction #Publishing

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The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction

1. Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature by Emily Wilson (Liveright) 2. The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore (Liveright) 3. Live Laugh Love: The Secret…

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· 1w ago

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week https://lithub.com/what-should-you-read-next-here-are-the-best-reviewed-books-of-the-week-13/ #Books #Reading #Literature

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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Gloria Steinem’s An Unexpected Life, Naomi Alderman’s The Strangers, Chuck Klosterman’s Rock*, and Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s Said the Dead all feature among the best reviewed bo…

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· 1w ago

"Regular, rigorous, and Reliable." How to Keep Fighting for a Better World https://lithub.com/regular-rigorous-and-reliable-how-to-keep-fighting-for-a-better-world/ #Activism #SocialJustice #Progress

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“Regular, rigorous, and Reliable.” How to Keep Fighting for a Better World

We can cultivate qualities that help us to stick around in struggle. This is something that came up when I spoke in 2023 with Philadelphia activist Suzy Subways about her decades of movement experi…

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· 1w ago

Elizabeth Alexander on Finding Life in the Second Spring of Middle Age https://lithub.com/elizabeth-alexander-on-finding-life-in-the-second-spring-of-middle-age/ #Literature #Essays #MiddleAge

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Elizabeth Alexander on Finding Life in the Second Spring of Middle Age

If I could have been a dancer, a real dancer, beyond those years at St. Mark’s, I probably would have done it. But my gifts were not that lavish, and my considerable drive was directed toward more …

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· 1w ago

Lit Hub Daily: September 25, 2026 https://lithub.com/lit-hub-daily-september-25-2026/ #Books #Literature #Essays

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Lit Hub Daily: September 25, 2026

After 26 years, Cyberselfish, Paulina Borsook’s prophetic look at big tech, is more relevant than ever. | Lit Hub Technology “To win in significant ways, we will have to build and sustain mov…

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· 1w ago

Why Ghosts Are Haunting Us in 2026 (For Real) https://lithub.com/why-ghosts-are-haunting-us-in-2026-for-real/ #Literature #Culture #Ghosts

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Why Ghosts Are Haunting Us in 2026 (For Real)

Several years ago, when COVID was still a bruising force in our lives, scaring us spitless, I took a COVID test, got the requisite negative result, and trekked to upstate New York for a writer’s re…

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· 1w ago

The Real Story of the So-Called "Witches" of England https://lithub.com/the-real-story-of-the-so-called-witches-of-england/ #History #Witchcraft #Culture

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The Real Story of the So-Called “Witches” of England

Although we can see many connections between our own lives and those of 17th-century English villagers—disputes among neighbors, domestic disharmony, wealth disparity—the times were very different …