Lit Hub Daily: March 13, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1892 Janet Flanner, the American writer and New Yorker Paris correspondent who published under the name Genêt, is born.
- Daniel Kraus on horror, improvisation, and lessons learned from Night of the Living Dead. | Lit Hub Film
- Why Perfect Tides: Station to Station might just be the most literary video game of all time. | Lit Hub Criticism
- What making a documentary about his grandmother, Beryl Bainbridge, taught Charlie Russell. | Lit Hub Biography
- Are you swiping for…inspiration? Katherine J. Chen on Hinge as a muse. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch, T Kira Madden’s Whidbey, and Daniel Kraus’ Partially Devoured all number among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- “But white settlers’ hatred of Indians and desire for their lands percolated on the American frontier, while visions of territorial expansion reigned among national leaders.” How Benjamin Franklin (and other American colonizers) spread genocidal propaganda about indigenous peoples.| Lit Hub History
- Am I the asshole for trying to pitch editors and agents at crowded AWP parties? Kristen Arnett answers this and your other awkward questions. | Lit Hub Advice
- “At some point in the last few years, my students became convinced that the worst sin a fiction writer can commit is an ‘info dump.’” Andrew Martin on writing exposition. | Lit Hub Craft
- Cat Willett illustrates the stories of women and the animals they love. | Lit Hub Art
- “The cast was allowed onto the stage five days before the opening night of the season. Meredith apologised for the delay.” Read from Beryl Bainbridge’s novel, An Awfully Big Adventure. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Kalyn Gensic writes an ode to her high school librarian: “Mr. Fondersmith embodied intellectual freedom, trusted his teenage students with the grittiest and richest of books, and infantilized no one. He was a badass librarian, and what could be more Texan than that?” | Texas Observer
- “Sometimes, when I’m lost and feeling less-than, being taken care of—being shown care by a gentle hand—is the only thing that returns me to myself.” Marcus Wicker on writer’s block, Nate Dogg, and Black barbershops. | Poetry
- Ivan Kenneally explores Mark Twain’s “absurd, noble” America, in all its contradictions. | The Hedgehog Review
- Why the North American School Scrabble Championship is “serious business.” | Defector
- Linda A. Parker dives into the history (and future) of cannabis. | The MIT Press Reader
- How fathers show up in two new plays: Clare Barron’s You Got Older and Wallace Shawn What We Did Before Our Moth Days. | The New Yorker
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