Lit Hub Daily: January 12, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1876, Jack London is born.
- Get your literary film and TV fix for 2026 with these upcoming adaptations, documentaries, and more! | Lit Hub Film
- Elizabeth Chamblee Burch exposes the scumbags behind shady doctors and telemarketing schemes that defrauded thousands of women: “It was like a Wall Street boiler room operation…and it was fucking magnificent.” | Lit Hub Health
- “There was a rich marketplace of spirituality for California bohemians. And, for many, the answer was Pentecostal Christianity.” How the first Christian rock album kickstarted the Jesus Movement. | Lit Hub Music
- Gayle Feldman recounts how Random House brought Capote’s In Cold Blood to bookshelves across America. | Lit Hub Biography
- How Back to the Future made Sean Mortimer a misfit skateboarder. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “No one could trace the secret roots of Skinny Pedro’s devotion to the world of machines.” Read “Turn of the River” from Edgard Telles Ribeiro’s collection As If By Magic, translated by Margaret A. Neves. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Cynthia Zarin considers the enduring power of both Hedda Gabler and Anna Christie. | The Paris Review
- Inside Trump’s war on American classrooms (and American history): “History and social studies classrooms are of particular consequence because that’s where the nation’s past is taught.” | The Baffler
- “The tech CEOs, venture capitalists, social media platforms, AI features being rammed into software and hardware alike are all abetting the president of the United States in his war on reality.” Why reality still matters. | The Verge
- Lauren Boersma Harris profiles Emily Henry and considers the making of a different kind of romance novel. | The New Yorker
- Katherine Cusumano dives into the mythology of the Gowanus Canal. | Orion
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