Lit Hub Daily: February 26, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1879, Mabel Dodge Luhan is born.
- “But the idea that throwing a little money at them might begin to erase the environmental harm wrought by two vast global conglomerates is beyond absurd.” The impact of big oil on the plastic industry’s relentless growth. | Lit Hub Climate Change
- How to write when the world around you is on fire. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Collect stories as though your life depends on it… and then share them, preserve and nurture them any way you can.” On heritage, family and the importance of oral history. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “The stories are folksy, a little retro and sensual, with multiple dips into earthy, furtive lesbian lust.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- “Am I the asshole for preferring adaptations to the original books?” And other questions answered this week by Kristin Arnett. | Lit Hub Advice
- Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- Nicole Sellew recommends seven Hamptons novels to read this winter by Candace Bushnell, Beth Morgan, Emma Cline and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Jennifer Murphy on taking writing inspiration from the history and present of tarot. | Lit Hub Craft
- Alfred W. McCoy looks at the Cold War agents responsible for colonial expansion. | Lit Hub History
- “There had never been such a flood. Not in living memory, at least. It came up silently. A dark tide clawed from the river, finger by finger, into the sleeping city.” Read from Caitlin Breeze’s new novel, The Fox Hunt. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Sabrina Imbler details their long, disappointingly boring correspondence with (not) Elena Ferrante. | Defector
- Mark Oppenheimer looks back on Judy Blume’s Wifey, “a steamy tale of lust and adultery, a career pivot that many worried would destroy her career as a writer for children.” | Vulture
- What’s the value of education if AI is doing your homework? | 404 Media
- Zain Khalid interviews Oliver Munday about Munday’s new story collection, Head of Household. | BOMB
- Molly Mary O’Brien on the iPod-brained generation. | Dirt
- Get ready, writers. Scams are coming. | The New York Times
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