Lit Hub Daily: April 28, 2026
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TODAY: In 1953, Roberto Bolaño is born.
- Meet Scott Meredith, the literary agent who invented the book auction. | Lit Hub History
- Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, and the American prose and poetry renaissance of the 1850s. | Lit Hub Criticism
- The 20 new books out today include titles by Tom Perrotta, Jordan Harper, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “The history of the treatment of madness, far from representing the slow but steady march of science, was until recently a series of false starts, futile debates about method, and pointless, even cruel, interventions.” How schizophrenia was treated throughout the ages. | Lit Hub History
- Helen Benedict, author of The Soldier’s House, tells Jane Ciabattari about chronicling the legacy of the Iraq War in fiction. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Jenny Bartoy recommends memoirs that explore family estrangement by Harriet Brown, Stephanie Foo, Nick Flynn and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- In honor of National Poetry Month, today we think you should read Sarah Jean Grimm’s “Zero Conditional.” | Lit Hub Poetry
- “I devour myself in delicious painlessness.” Read from Ananda Devi’s novel All Flesh, translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Mary Gaitskill discovers one of the unexpected pleasures of aging: “[My body] is doing its best with the hand it was dealt, and that is far more than I ever before thought possible.” | Vogue
- Andrea Brady considers new poetry collections by Canisia Lubrin and Keston Sutherland, and how to tell the story of losing a mother. | Poetry
- Becca Rothfeld considers Wolfgang Koeppen’s “trilogy of failure.” | The New Yorker
- These newly unearthed letters written by JD Salinger to his editor, John Woodburn, offer some insight into the author’s reclusive life. | The Guardian
- A new study has found that a third of new websites are AI generated, but don’t worry: We’re still 100% human. | 404 Media
- Ukrainian reporter Nataliya Gumenyuk reflects on over a decade of covering American politics. | The Dial
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