Lit Hub Daily: January 27, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1922, journalist Nellie Bly dies.
- In a dispatch from Minneapolis, chaun webster considers the strange familiarity of ICE and the limits of our language. | Lit Hub Politics
- George Saunders tells Jane Ciabattari about writing Vigil and developing his own take on the afterlife. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Rebecca Hall reflects on Negro Liberation, her father’s groundbreaking book: “Being a child of a famous communist father, who had me when he was older than I am now, is a strange thing.” | Lit Hub Memoir
- William J. Mann revisits the mythic 1947 Black Dahlia murder and considers at some unusual suspects. | Lit Hub History
- The 20 new books out today include titles by George Saunders, Heather Ann Thompson, Stephen Fishbach, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “For Coretta, the daily bombings were not distant policy—they were personal.” On the progressive politics of Coretta Scott King. | Lit Hub Biography
- Fatima Bhutto follows the long history of partnership (and love) between humans and dogs. | Lit Hub History
- “I’m not so keen on the damp grey days, I admit. So It’s no hardship to stay at my desk.” Val McDermid’s ode to writing in the winter. | Lit Hub Craft
- “The conditions of the part-time job weren’t bad. They just weren’t the sort of conditions you came across every day.” Read from Emi Yagi’s novel When the Museum Is Closed, translated by Yuki Tejima. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Hermione Hoby makes the case for Infinite Jest on its 30th birthday. | The New Yorker
- Jeremy Lybarger considers George Whitmore’s “ruthless and unsentimental” narrative of queer survival, Nebraska. | The Nation
- “A poem seemed a space to store a secret, and I had plenty of secrets.” Carl Phillips on writing the poems that changed the course of his life. | The Yale Review
- On aliens, speculative fiction, and the challenge of exploring non-human perspectives. | The Point
- J.M. Berger explains the construction of extremism in regards to ICE: “When this normal instinct congeals into an excessive attachment to a specific identity and a mandate to harm people who don’t share that identity, it becomes extremism.” | The MIT Press Reader
- Tessa Hulls, the only graphic novelist other than Art Spiegelman to win a Pulitzer, discusses Feeding Ghosts (and why she won’t be writing another book). | The Comics Journal
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