Lit Hub Daily: January 8, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1547, the first Lithuanian-language book, Simple Words of Catechism, is published in Königsberg.
- Maris Kreizman recommends two new books that demystify the publishing industry for aspiring writers, editors, and agents. | Lit Hub Advice
- “I started to feel like a punishing daily commute and an eight-hour emailing marathon weren’t worth the sacrifices.” Amil Niazi on motherhood, watching Bosch, and letting yourself give up. | Lit Hub Craft
- “A propulsive, witty takedown of insufferable hand-wringers who’ve managed to ruin even sex.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Jacob Soboroff revisits the destruction wrought by the Eaton Canyon and Palisades Fires in 2025. | Lit Hub Climate Change
- “We’ve thought of cities for 5,500 years of recorded history as the one spot where, at long last, humans could escape predators.” What the coyotes of Los Angeles and Chicago reveal about our changing attitudes towards urban wildlife. | Lit Hub Nature
- “A salesman’s hand stretched out towards the prospective buyer, cupped into a universal signifier.” Read from Agri Ismaïl’s novel, Hyper. | Lit Hub Fiction
- How one unorthodox Penn professor is getting his students to set down the phones and read again. | Vulture
- Hank Kennedy considers how anti-communist comic books helped spread the Red Scare. | Current Affairs
- “Mamdani’s light self-ironizing made him real. This was video as self-expression. The values were of the amateur content creator.” Anne Enright considers the aesthetics of Zohran Mamdani’s digital campaign. | NYRB
- Here’s a little home library porn, as a treat. | T Magazine
- “The plant thus finds itself at the center of a controversy, with its rootedness in cultural heritage standing in opposition to its status as a politicized commodity.” The history of za’atar from ancient cookbooks to the present. | JSTOR Daily
- Frank M. Young chronicles the rise and fall of newspaper comics. | The Comics Journal
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