Lit Hub Daily: April 23, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1902, Halldór Laxness is born.
- The perfect gift guide (for mothers who are writers). | Lit Hub
- “Possibly the greatest lesson I got from the zine is that writing is about community.” How zines taught Jeff Miller to be a novelist. | Lit Hub Craft
- Bernd Heinrich on why his life in the Maine woods “was all like an impossible dream come true.” | Lit Hub Memoir
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“Musk is many things: entrepreneur, far-right troll, cautionary tale about the negative effects of completely lacking a good sense of humor.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week | Book Marks
- “I learned by doing—and by failing, a dozen times.” On Abigail Savitch-Lew’s twelve-year struggle to write a political debut novel. | Lit Hub Craft
- Who needs clocks when you have birdsong? How nature helps us tell time. | Lit Hub History
- Are you the (literary) asshole if you want your friend to stop sending your writing? | Lit Hub Advice
- Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- In honor of National Poetry Month, today we think you should read William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 28.” | Lit Hub Poetry
- “There was this one book that was a real mess.” Read from Naoki Matayoshi and Shinsuke Yoshitake’s The Neverending Book, translated by Kendall Heitzman. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Pankaj Mishra considers Wolfgang Koeppen’s The Hothouse, a novel informed by Koeppen’s prescient belief in the “insidious persistence of the ancien régime in Europe.” | The Nation
- On Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country and how the Jewish Labor Bund stood against Zionism. | Jacobin
- “But for others, the error triggered an existential crisis.” The crossword community is experiencing some drama. | Vulture
- Silicon Valley is doing eugenics…becauase of AI? | Mother Jones
- The chronically online afterlives of Infinite Jest. | LARB
- 2025 was a record-breaking year for book bans in American libraries. | The Guardian
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