Lit Hub Daily: April 7, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1770, William Wordsworth is born.
- On physics, poetry, and how humans “are producing our reality through the stories we choose to tell and the metaphors that we use to narrate them.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- Caro Claire Burke, the author of Yesteryear, talks to Sara Petersen about tradwives and the performance of selfhood. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s TBR includes work by Asa Drake, Eve L. Ewing, Isaac Fitzgerald, and more. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Today, we think you should read Li-Young Lee’s poem, “From Blossoms.” | Lit Hub Poetry
- Books by Ben Lerner, Patrick Radden Keefe, Emma Straub, and more are among the 25 new titles out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Poetry reminds me that repetition is evidence of life, and a way to see life differently.” In praise of the art of replication. | Lit Hub Craft
- Nora Lange explores the temporal journey of motherhood: “It was all here—and seemingly against time’s arrow, our mothers come from us too.” | Lit Hub Memoir
- Rabih Alameddine and John Freeman consider their new anthology and the appeal of the international short story. | Lit Hub Craft
- “High above this snowy field / we spot a shadow hovering.” Read “Late Winter Walk,” a poem by Julia Alvarez from the collection Visitations. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “But there was an increased number of guards in the square compared to a typical market day, and this sent a shiver of uneasiness through the crowds.” Read from Agnieszka Szpila’s novel Hexes of the Deadwood Forest, translated by Scotia Gilroy. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Jasper Lo, former New Yorker fact checker and union leader, tells the story of his firing from the magazine. | The Nation
- “The urge I felt wasn’t to possess. It wasn’t even to resemble. It was to draw near. To be allowed to draw near.” Jeffrey Eugenides remembers the gravitational pull of JFK, Jr. | The New Yorker
- On Richard Siken, Anne Carson, and what happens when poets lose their language. | LARB
- Omar Hamad tells Shatha Abdellatif about building Gaza’s Phoenix Library from a bookshelf in a tent. | Asymptote
- Cartoonists Kasia Babis and Seth Tobocman talk about activism, art, and depicting the work of protest. | The Comics Journal
- AI hallucinations are invading scientific literature. | Nature
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