Lit Hub Daily: March 10, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1948, Zelda Fitzgerald dies.
- Bookseller Jeannine Cook explains why she opened Harriett’s Bookshop, a “cultural treasure” in Philadelphia. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “At what point does writing about extraordinary circumstances for women become ordinary?”Alice Martin on writing about family archives. | Lit Hub Craft
- Victoria Shorr recommends six books (and a movie!) about bad fathers by Hilary Mantel, Alice Munro, Emily Brontë, and others. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “I do think people sometimes have to almost fake it til they make it within political movements.” Karan Mahajan on literary tradition, Trump, and writing multiple points of view. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Jane Ciabattari talks to Jun Yun, author of All The World Can Hold, about writing a post 9/11 cruise novel. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- The 21 new books out today include titles by Andrew Martin, T Kira Madden, Karan Mahajan, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Even though I’m a huge snob in a lot of ways, I have a fear of pretentiousness, and I have a maybe very American fear of wasting anyone’s time.” Andrew Martin, author of Down Time, on chronicling Millennial malaise. | Lit Hub Craft
- What a pastor, a noblewoman and a mysterious bout of melancholy have to do with the intersection mental health and Christian faith in 19th-century Prussia. | Lit Hub History
- T Kira Madden, Benjamin Hale, Lily Brooks-dalton and more authors answer our burning questions about literary life. | Lit Hub Craft
- “In a patch of sunlight Verla sits on a wooden folding chair and waits. When the door opens she holds her breath. It is another girl who comes into the room.” Read from Charlotte Wood’s novel, The Natural Way of Things. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Grief is the real life, and the reprieves of peace are just places we visit in between. To treat a woman in mourning as something special, extraordinary? It would be harder to find one not in mourning.” Haley Mlotek on reading Marguerite Duras’ The War. | The Nation
- What is it like to make a mid-career change to teaching in the age of AI? Peter C Baker explains. | The Guardian
- Andrew Holter considers Mary McCarthy’s (confrontational, extraordinary) war reporting in this new era of “fantasies and illusions of American men.” | The Boston Review
- BookTokkers don’t want to read any third-person POV books. Okay! | Slate
- “When Clavicular avows that the B-list actor Matt Bomer is the closest thing we have to a True Adam… he sounds even more ridiculous than those dusty mid-century guides to literature that promise to provide definitive rankings of the classics.” Becca Rothfeld looks into Looksmaxxers. | The New Yorker
- Political scientists Neta C. Crawford, Matthew Evangelista, and the late psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton discuss trauma, grievance, and hubris in our cycle of neverending war. | The MIT Press Reader
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