On Ed Park’s Personal Days, one of the best comic novels of all time.
Literary Hubby James Folta·10 Sept 2026
On Ed Park’s Personal Days, one of the best comic novels of all time. This is the first installment of an ongoing series recommending books from what I’ll call the Funny Novel Canon.
Lit Hub Daily: September 10, 2026
Literary Hubby Lit Hub Daily·10 Sept 2026
Lit Hub Daily: September 10, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1886, H.D. is born.
My Partner Refuses to Read or Even TALK About Books? Should We Break Up?
Literary Hubby Kristen Arnett·10 Sept 2026
My Partner Refuses to Read or Even TALK About Books? Should We Break Up? Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior on This Week’s Am I the Literary Asshole?
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
Literary Hubby Book Marks·10 Sept 2026
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week “He writes in a sort of thespian-bro argot, spiking locker-room jokes with rococo word choices like a frat-house Faulkner.” Our mixum-gatherum of...
Neither Bone Nor Stone: Why the US Constitution Was Meant to be Amended
Literary Hubby Jill Lepore·10 Sept 2026
Neither Bone Nor Stone: Why the US Constitution Was Meant to be Amended From Jill Lepore’s Cundill Prize-Shortlisted We the People “The people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible...
How I Learned to Love My Dog By Observing His Behavior
Literary Hubby Anna Heyward·10 Sept 2026
How I Learned to Love My Dog By Observing His Behavior Anna Heyward: “If I watched and waited, open to what Freddie could show me, something would become clear.” It was Sunday, a week since Freddie...
Beauty in Ambiguity: On Marian Anderson’s Lifelong Love For Schubert
Literary Hubby Anthony Tommasini·10 Sept 2026
Beauty in Ambiguity: On Marian Anderson’s Lifelong Love For Schubert Anthony Tommasini Explores the Singer’s Relationship With Music From Both Sides of the Atlantic When you’re young, or not so...
Here’s the Cover For American Occupation, a Powerful Document of Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE
Literary Hubby Jonny Diamond·10 Sept 2026
Here’s the Cover For American Occupation, a Powerful Document of Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE Featuring Contributions From Charles Baxter, Nick Estes, V.V.
Nine Novels That Make an Art of Earnestness
Literary Hubby Stef Ferrari·10 Sept 2026
Nine Novels That Make an Art of Earnestness Stef Ferrari Recommends Tayari Jones, Rufi Thorpe, Becky Chambers, and More Bennie Bosley, the protagonist of my new queer YA holiday romance, Pining for...
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction
Literary Hubby Literary Hub·10 Sept 2026
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Fiction For the week ending September 6, 2026 Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of...
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction
Literary Hubby Literary Hub·10 Sept 2026
The Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers: Nonfiction For the week ending September 6, 2026 Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction, based on sales in hundreds of...
We Never Called It Frisco
Literary Hubby Lit Hub Excerpts·10 Sept 2026
They say we’re a town full of losers. They say we’re eccentric, eclectic—marginal. Maybe I’m exaggerating.
On the strange, literary video games of Inpatient Press.
Literary Hubby James Folta·9 Sept 2026
On the strange, literary video games of Inpatient Press. The indie publisher Inpatient Press is doing fascinating, form-breaking work.
Lit Hub Daily: September 9, 2026
Literary Hubby Lit Hub Daily·9 Sept 2026
Lit Hub Daily: September 9, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET - “Language is something that is practiced and learned and something that you can be awful at, and also something that you can get...
Learning From Shame: R.F. Kuang on Diaspora, Language and Writing Young Protagonists
Literary Hubby Adam Dalva·9 Sept 2026
Learning From Shame: R.F. Kuang on Diaspora, Language and Writing Young Protagonists Adam Dalva Talks to the Author of Taipei Story R.F. Kuang is, in the best sense, a literary chameleon.
What Weimar Berlin’s Most Famous Plays Revealed About Artistic Freedom
Literary Hubby Wendy Lesser·9 Sept 2026
Is there a German word that means the opposite of “doppelgänger”—not the uncannily mysterious twin, but the secretly matched-up opponent who stands for everything one hates and also hates...
What Peatlands Can Teach Us About Time
Literary Hubby Jennifer de Mooy·9 Sept 2026
What Peatlands Can Teach Us About Time Jennifer de Mooy on the Carbon Under Our Feet I am sitting in a frost pocket in West Virginia, looking at a Canada warbler.
“Get Out.” Advice on Teaching High School From the Late, Great Frank McCourt
Literary Hubby Tom Allon·9 Sept 2026
“Get Out.” Advice on Teaching High School From the Late, Great Frank McCourt Tom Allon on His Enduring Friendship with the Beloved Irish Memoirist On my second day as a rookie English teacher at my...
Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2026 Insider Prize
Literary Hubby Literary Hub·9 Sept 2026
Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2026 Insider Prize Selected by Elizabeth McCracken Writing is a challenge, at every level.
The Literary Agent Who Lost the Narrative Thread
Literary Hubby Jennifer Michelle Herrera·9 Sept 2026
The Literary Agent Who Lost the Narrative Thread Jennifer Herrera on Reckoning with Grief and How She Tells Her Story As a literary agent, I’ve spent years shaping the stories of other people’s...
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