Lit Hub Daily: August 17, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1935, Charlotte Perkins Gilman dies.
- What did Jodi Picoult decide she needed to commemorate turning 60 and writing 30 novels? A tattoo. | Lit Hub Craft
- Steven W. Thrasher explores what we can learn about solidarity from Greg Tate’s recently reissued Flyboy in the Buttermilk. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Why does Walden resonate with modern Chinese youth? “Walden is not popular in China because Chinese readers misunderstand Thoreau. It is popular because they understand him precisely.” | Lit Hub On Translation
- This week in literary history, Joseph Conrad becomes a British subject. | Lit Hub History
- On the 80th anniversary of All the King’s Men, read the novel’s first New York Times review. | Book Marks
- Ishmael Reed Reflects on 50 years of Flight to Canada. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Listen: I am not ungrateful. I have always known I am the luckiest girl on earth.” Read from Malavika Kannan’s new novel, Unprecedented Times. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Rebecca Ford takes a deep dive on what went wrong on the Children of Blood and Bone set. | Vanity Fair
- R.K. Hegelman on Fernando Pessoa, “an extreme and singular figure in a modern poetic tradition that views poems not just as texts, but as gnostic vehicles of self-annihilation and worldly renovation.” | Poetry
- Ed Park on stamp collecting, maximum scrutiny, and his book, Three Tenses. | Broadcast
- What’s happening over at The Onion’s InfoWars? Time to catch up. | Aftermath
- Vikram Nijhawan laments the death of the good old fashioned con artist. | The Walrus
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