Lit Hub Daily: April 6, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1917, surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington is born.
- You’ve heard of Bad Art Friend, but are you ready for…Good Art Friend? | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “A writer must look inward to determine how their own perceptions might project onto their theorizing.” On art, honesty, and introspection. | Lit Hub Craft
- Robin Hemley explores the significance of lost and misplaced objects on a three-month sojourn to Europe. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Raymond de Borja reflects on language, poetry, and how friendship is “integral to and inscribed in creative work.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Today, we think you should read Dean Young’s poem, “Unstable Particles.” | Lit Hub Poetry
- Ella Quittner teaches you how to make the perfect poached egg. | Lit Hub Food
- This week in literary history, Maurice Sendak takes you Where the Wild Things Are. | Lit Hub History
- Read “This Simple Machine,” a poem By Daniel Moysaenko from the collection Overtakelessness: “this messy machine / a body peeking / out and oozing.” | Lit Hub Poetry
- “That was it. I was very young, and I was living in Somerset with an old man, my father, The Major, and an old woman, my mother.” Read “That’s What I Did,” a story by Lara Pawson from the new issue of NOON. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “It is striking that, in a book that is ostensibly about meaning, nothing approaching a positive picture of meaning ever emerges.” Becca Rothfeld reads Arthur C. Brooks (for filth). | The New Yorker
- Molly Crabapple considers the connection between the Jewish radicals of early 20th century Poland and the women caring for their incarcerated loved ones today. | Harper’s Bazaar
- Kevin Lozano profiles Ben Lerner: “He knows there’s something ‘fundamentally annoying’ about his books; they ‘inhabit privileged positions.’” | Vulture
- Matthew Wills traces how an alleged giant squid attack from 1941 became a serious urban legend. | JSTOR Daily
- Rachel Ossip searches for the Cattle Queen: “The poster seems to have struck a chord with the feminists, and it continued to pop up at protests.” | n+1
- “It’s doubtless strange that the wellspring of this warmly humanist project is a rapacious oil company, and that fact has not exactly been irrelevant to its output.” Krithika Varagur explores Aramco World. | The Paris Review
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