Lit Hub Daily: February 10, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1898, Bertolt Brecht is born.
- LETTERS FROM MINNESOTA: Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl on the brutal impact of ice on Twin City businesses • Nimo H. Farah on refusing to mistake silence for safety. | Lit Hub Politics
- Why do fascists fetishize the classics? Ed Simon has some thoughts. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “To put it bluntly, you read the Times Book Review because you had to, but you read Book World because you wanted to.” Gerald Howard on book coverage at the Washington Post. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Dan Chiasson, Chloe Michelle Howarth, Larissa Pham and more authors answer our questions about literary life. | Lit Hub Craft
- The 22 new books out today include titles by Allegra Goodman, Ej Dickson, Chris Jennings, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Jane Ciabattari talks to Cristina Rivera Garza, author of Autobiography Of Cotton, about excavating family history. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “If you think your in-laws are difficult, these people will make your next thanksgiving feel like a pleasure cruise.” Karen Russell revisits Joy Williams’s The Changeling. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Kenan Orhan explores the intersection of memory, identity and self-imposed exile while writing about Istanbul. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Sabina Nordqvist on writing a romance novel that decenters the abled gaze: “But I wasn’t having any meaningful interrogation of what stories I was consuming and why; I was simply desperate for any kind of representation where disabled characters didn’t die.” | Lit Hub Health
- “You were breathing fire when I met you, I should have sensed the danger: a pale, shirtless sixteen-year-old in the middle of a frozen field inhaling slugs of kerosene and spewing jets of flame out into the night.” Read from Malén Denis’s novel Lithium, translated by Laura Hatry and John Wronoski. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “She is my America, the language I have recreated from afar and without apology.” Federico Perelmuter offers a “small devotion” to Susan Howe. | Poetry
- The mass market paperback is dead. Long live the mass market paperback. | The New York Times
- Devin Thomas O’Shea considers the past—and necessary future—of proletarian literature. | Jacobin
- Emily Zarevich on Dorothy Parker, the professor. | JSTOR Daily
- Hannah Goldfield considers the appeal of reading (and writing) food diaries. | The New Yorker
- How romance authors Kit Rocha and Courtney Milan spearheaded an effort to 3D print whistles in the name of community resistance. | The Verge
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