Lit Hub Daily: August 27, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1950, Italian poet Cesare Pavese dies.
- What do you do when your writing group thinks your story’s hilarious (when it’s not supposed to be)? | Lit Hub Advice
- If you have a free afternoon, try reading one of these novellas from cover to cover. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Why don’t people write letters anymore? Maybe because they feel “dangerously permanent.” | Lit Hub Craft
- “Rare indeed to find a real reporter who is also a real thinker. And the bastard’s funny, too.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- “The past belongs to no one, and as such, it also belongs to everyone.” n finding inspiration in her husband’s Moroccan family. | Lit Hub Craft
- Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- Stephen Greco recommends books by Kitty Kelley, C. David Heymann, John Waters, and more that explore Elizabeth Taylor’s multifaceted life. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “The sunlight streaming through the arrival hall windows was a dirty gold the afternoon our flight from Paris landed.” Read from Nyla Matuk’s new novel, Leila and Khaled. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “They have literally any kind of book you could think of.” Emanuel Maiberg talks to an employee at the warehouse where Amazon scans and destroys books for AI training. | 404 Media
- Livia Gershon on getting to the bottom of boredom. | JSTOR Daily
- Why we need cyberpunk fiction in the age of AI. | Reactor
- Tommy Orange profiles Thomas King and reflects on learning that a writer he looks up to isn’t actually Indigenous. | Vulture
- On the rise of “biogossip” books, “novels that stoke intense speculation over the person they’re really about.” | The Guardian
- How mystery writer Peter Grainger self-published his way into the spotlight. | The New York Times
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