Lit Hub Daily: June 12, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1929, Anne frank is born, and in 1942 she gets a diary for her birthday.
- If literacy is in decline, why are bookstores booming? “Bookstores are filling a social void.” | Lit Hub Bookstores
- Korean poets and their translators pair poetry collections with K-pop albums. | Lit Hub On Translation
- Did you know the Mayflower Puritans came from a town called Scrooby? | Lit Hub History
- From Aristotle to Virgil, ancient writers used bees to examine memory and knowledge. | Lit Hub Criticism
- How sitting on the judge’s bench opened Jacqueline St. Joan to a “heightened awareness of language.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Deb Olin Unferth’s Earth 7, Andrea Wulf’s The Traveler, and Dave Eggers’ Contrapposto all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- Claire Fuller explores what writers can learn from sculpting. | Lit Hub Craft
- ”It’s been seven hours and thirty-five days since he took his love away.” Read “Authority” from Sarah Braunstein’s new collection, Baby in a Box. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Matthew Cheney considers the early stories of Clive Barker and Joel Lane in the context of Margaret Thatcher’s England. | Reactor
- What is poetry? Jordan Castro searches for the answer to that question in the works of Chelsey Minnis. | The Paris Review
- How stories about a lighthouse keeper named Elias Thorne escaped chatbot containment. | 404 Media
- Jesse Green chronicles the search for Thornton Wilder’s last play. | The New York Times
- Lavinia Spalding tells Cheri Lucas Rowlands about editing the The Best Women’s Travel Writing series: “I think grief turns us more porous, and so everything we experience when we’re traveling—all the unexpected beauty and tenderness that accompanies travel—can feel heightened.” | Longreads
- Erik Baker looks at Magnifica humanitas, Pope Leo’s first encyclical, as “an act of position-taking in the debates that have riven Catholicism since the mid-20th century.” | The Nation
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