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Literary Hubby Laura Kolbe19d ago
In Praise of Lost Time: On a Poetics That Subverts Linear Chronology Laura Kolbe: “Having an intimate, almost sensual relationship to the clock is the derangement.” In this year’s heteropessimist...
Literary Hubby Lit Hub Excerpts19d ago
The American Academy of Pediatrics could not explain why Martin, at seven years old, rolled around on the living room floor flapping his arms and cawing, while Teddy, who was not yet five, waited...
Literary Hubby Brittany Allen19d ago
Singapore is paying its citizens to read. (But will it work?) On September 6, Singapore started paying its citizens to read.
Literary Hubby Lit Hub Daily20d ago
Lit Hub Daily: September 22, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age is published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in New...
Literary Hubby Literary Hub20d ago
John Green Gives Himself Permission to Suck The Author of Hollywood, Ending Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire John Green’s new book, Hollywood, Ending, is available now from Dutton, so we asked him a...
Literary Hubby Neil Griffin20d ago
What We Lose in the Face of Extinction Neil Griffin on Doomed Species, Our Capacity for Wonder, and How Extinction Shapes the Planet Before Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species, he spent...
Literary Hubby Doireann Ní Ghríofa20d ago
Opening the Door: On the Secrets Old Buildings Can Keep Doireann Ní Ghríofa Explores Our Need to Know the Stories Behind Broken Glass and Dark Corridors It began with a mistake.
Literary Hubby Lit Hub Excerpts20d ago
One year after the death you throw a party. they say grief needs a turn of seasons—one summer, fall, winter and spring—before the sadness lets go. If you survive the year, you celebrate.
Literary Hubby Julia Hass20d ago
Gloria Steinem, John Green, Lucy Foley, and more: 20 new books out today! Today, it is officially fall: does it feel like it?
Literary Hubby Daniel Gawthrop21d ago
How Heated Rivalry Imagines a More Inclusive NHL Daniel Gawthrop on the Explosive Popularity of the Queer Hockey Phenomenon “I know there are gay guys in the NHL, because I met one of my teammate’s...
Literary Hubby Carlo Rovelli21d ago
Carlo Rovelli on the Dangers of Getting Trapped Inside Your Own Conceptual Framework Lessons About Earth, Reality, and Universal Truths Before arriving at the quanta to which this first lesson is...
Literary Hubby Ed Simon21d ago
Whereof One Cannot Speak: On the Limits of Language to Describe Pain Ed Simon Explores the Incomplete Poetics of Physical Suffering When the pain first arrived, it was during an...
Literary Hubby Simon Warrack21d ago
On Finding the Beauty in a Block of Stone Simon Warrack Remembers What Led Him To Discover His Passion For Heritage Preservation The best way to observe London, with all its charm and beauty...
Literary Hubby Emerson Whitney21d ago
The Archive Talks Back: Eight Books That Wrest Humanity From the Record Emerson Whitney Recommends Matthew James Weigel, Anne Carson, Saidiya Hartman and More Genre-bending books have greatly...
Literary Hubby Lit Hub Excerpts21d ago
My father Chas Bouguereau upped sticks some sixty years ago and left Louisiana and settled himself in Paris, a small town in Tennessee. It was 1840. A wiser man would have pushed on to the Ohio.
Literary Hubby Lit Hub Daily23d ago
Lit Hub Weekly: September 14 - 18, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET - Don’t have time to read all those fall reading lists? That’s okay. We read them for you.
Literary Hubby Brittany Allen23d ago
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.
Literary Hubby Dan Sheehan24d ago
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...
Literary Hubby Lit Hub Daily24d ago
Lit Hub Daily: September 18, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1897, Henry James’ novel What Maisie Knew is published as a book after originally being serialized.
Literary Hubby Caroline Eubanks24d ago
How Romance Novels Filled in the Gaps Left by Sex Ed Caroline Eubanks on the Power of “Smut” to Break Taboos Around Sex Chewed up gum, unraveled yarn, a flower stripped of its petals.
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