Lit Hub Daily: June 9, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1870, Charles Dickens dies.
- How remaining unmarried allowed Muriel Spark’s “intellectual monster” to run free. | Lit Hub Biography
- Dave Eggers talks to Jane Ciabattari about writing a novel that understands visual artists (as a visual artist). | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Books by Andrew Sean Greer, Dave Eggers, Leila Slimani, and more are among the 23 new titles out today! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- What’s in a title? Teamwork, Facebook threads, and something just weird enough to work. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Houses, gardens, fields, / all gone. The spring choked.” Read “Effaced…,”a poem by Jawdat Fakhreddine, with translator’s notes by Huda Fakhreddine. | Lit Hub Poetry
- Courtney Maum, Ben Fountain, Deb Olin Unferth, and more authors answer 7 questions about craft and life. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Lauren Acompora recommends books about human and animal connections by Geraldine Brooks, Takashi Hiraide, Lydia Milett, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Zinzi Clemmons talks to Myriam Gurba about telling her own story and having “major literary guts.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “Dinner was very late for American tastes: eight thirty.” Read from Andrew Sean Greer’s new novel, Villa Coco. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “The threat of loss, the inability to ever truly know another person or be known, is not a problem; it is part of what makes love exciting, meaningful, and even fun.” When Lauren Oyler met her AI boyfriend. | The Yale Review
- Mitchell Abidor considers what three new books by and about Paul Celan reveal about his life and legacy. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Phillip Maciak remembers the power of Persepolis: “The first thing to say about both Persepolis the 2003 graphic novel and Persepolis the 2007 film is that they are perfect.” | The New Republic
- Matthew Wills traces the history of a Galileo forgery. | JSTOR Daily
- “Mostly, I liked the silence and solitude.” The confessions of a paperboy turned journalist. | The New Yorker
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