Lit Hub Daily: February 19, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1895, French author, translator, and journalist Auguste Vacquerie dies.
- LETTERS FROM MINNESOTA: Su Hwang on experiencing chaos at a distance • Ahmed Ismail shares an elegy for Renee Nicole Good • Michelle Zamanian on balancing chaos at home and strife in the streets of Iran. | Lit Hub Politics
- Mark Haddon recalls the unlikely process behind his innovative novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. | Lit Hub Craft
- Lydia Millet on censorship, creativity, and what happens when your books don’t get banned. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Michael welch on the closing of Chicago’s Volumes Bookcafe and what we lose when we lose independent bookstores. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “The narrative flow is more like blood pumping around the branching arteries of the body than water channeled in a rill.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers in fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “Instead of being drawn to cities, rural people were pushed into cities from their ancestral homes. And they did not go willingly.” Kate Brown explores the intersections of class and land use in 19th-century Britain. | Lit Hub History
- “Nothing of their everyday was recognisable to Charu in the aftermath. Her mother had died and flied to heaven, this much she understood.” Read from Rahul Bhattacharya’s novel, Railsong. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Remaining human until the last moment”: Vivian Gornick on Joachim Fest’s Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood. | Boston Review
- Is a TV deal the novelist’s dream, or nightmare? Authors get real about the Hollywood IP machine. | Cultured
- Anna Juul reports on the end of mail in Denmark (tr. Caroline Waight): “These days it feels as though words are vanishing, as if they’re losing their value.” | The Dial
- CMarie Fuhrman spends some time with Idaho’s remote wilderness. | Emergence
- Chris Molnar talks to New York punk icon Richard Hell about the reissue of his novel, Godlike: “I don’t even know if I should dignify it as a criticism, but people would treat it as if it wasn’t legitimately a novel because it was me, as if it was autofiction.” | Interview
- Frances Lindemann considers the fragments of Virgina Woolf’s unfinished final book. | The Paris Review
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