Lit Hub Daily: June 15, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1300, Dante Alighieri is named prior of Florence.
- Emily Temple reads every summer reading list (so you don’t have to). | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Everything you didn’t think you needed to know about how squids have sex. | Lit Hub Nature
- Darcey Steinke on chronic pain, loneliness, and the 100th anniversary of Virgina Woolf’s “On Being Ill.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Stacey Yu recommends books by Mary Gaitskill, Colette, Marlen Haushofer, and more about cats and their owners. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “I kept looking for the flaws, the pieces that I had predetermined were broken and realized that I had never actually seen myself.” Phill Branch navigates Blackness through film and print. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Krys Malcolm Belc meditates on cooking, family, and queer domesticity. | Lit Hub Food
- This week in literary history, Dante Alighieri is named prior of Florence shortly before being exiled from the city for life. | Lit Hub History
- Dominic Erdozainn explores the problem with American patriotism. | Lit Hub Politics
- “I am trying to resist the temptation to begin this essay with a headline that I know will hook you.” How working in advertising helped Lu Chekowski write a memoir. | Lit Hub Craft
- Madeleine Schwartz recommends books about the United States (by non-American authors). | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “What happened in Santiago, the matter that began my great downfall, the rupture in my previously hallowed existence, was this: I played the concert of my lifetime.” Read from Jane Healey’s new novel, Crescendo.| Lit Hub Fiction
- Jessica Winter explores why critiquing children’s literature misses the larger point: “Librarians and educators stress that what’s more important than matters of taste is keeping kids conditioned to reading at a crucial developmental moment.” | The New Yorker
- In the age of increasing AI ubiquity, Dan Chiasson makes the case for the necessity of the impasse in the writing process. | NYRB
- Chris Mautner shares an interview with Marjane Satrapi from 2006. | The Comics Journal
- Krzysztof Pelc asks what literary credibility looks like in the age of AI. | LARB
- Tech bros and billionaires love accelerationism, but do they even know what it is? | Aeon
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