10+ hour, 4+ min ago   (678+ words) I medicate myself with an Asahi and a packet of sour gummy worms to avoid dwelling on this morbid thought for too long. you’re kinda cute:) The rest is history, as they say. My phone lights up with a new…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (281+ words) Literary Hub Here’s the winner of the the 2026 Inside Literary Prize. The Inside Literary Prize, which was founded in 2023 by Freedom Reads, the National Book Foundation, the Center for Justice Innovation, and Interabang Books co-owner Lori Feathers, “celebrates the power…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (417+ words) Triage • Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric • Citizen: An American Lyric • Just Us: An American Conversation Antigone | Sophocles • Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 8, Episode 51: Omar El Akkad on Gaza and Western Empire • Julia (1977) dir. Fred Zinnemann EXCERPT FROM A…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (646+ words) “Hey.” Right away, her singsong voice. “Hi.” I said back. “You’re making meat loaf tomorrow?” Her voice, again, was drawn out and high-pitched. “We don’t call it Sunday Loaf for fun.” “Yes, we do.” She gave a little laugh. “We…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1126+ words) The Lit Hub Author Questionnaire is a monthly interview featuring seven questions for five authors with new books. This month we talk to: Naima Coster (Take What You Can) Elizabeth Jannuzzi (Sober Mom) Emily McBride (Queen Mab) Katy Simpson Smith…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (209+ words) Lit Hub Daily: August 10, 2026 Literary Hub Lit Hub Daily: August 10, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET - On The Catcher in the Rye at 75, Hemingway, and the influence of war on the history of American masculinity. | Lit Hub Criticism - Being online…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (262+ words) Literary Hub Lit Hub Weekly: August 3 - 7, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET - Carly Mattox considers Jennette McCurdy’s Half His Age and reckons with the long literary history of age gap relationships. | Lit Hub Memoir - Why mothers and their babies are…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (630+ words) The first week of August brings a windfall of heavyweight literature: a novel by Paul Yoon, a searing nonfiction book of essays by Meaghan Beatley, and a much anticipated work by Claudia Rankine. This is just the beginning: read on…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (517+ words) Above it all, he’s a chronicler of New York City, crafting rhapsodies to that near magical machine that chugs and churns along despite everything, through a mire of impossibility. “They were completely hopeless out there, and unstoppable,” he writes in…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (519+ words) In those static days, everything was ling; a gap where before there had been something. However, this is not a story about that time of stillness, but rather the tale of one long night. Sometimes decisions such as ending a…...