Lit Hub Daily: March 16, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1850, The Scarlet Letter is published.
- On channeling grief into other worlds and the potential of possibility as a literary device. | Lit Hub Craft
- “Bedsits, jumble sales, heartaches assuaged by hot drinks—it turns out that Barbara Pym’s touchstones are as resonant as ever.” In praise of writing stories attuned to the details of everyday life. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Scott Kurashige traces the history of anti-Asian racism and violence. | Lit Hub History
- “Most of the food had passed its sell-by date, but no one cared. Good company could make even a simple meal a feast.” On Europe’s heroin crisis and growing up in Madrid’s San Blas neighborhood. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “Time passes. Sleep, wake, work, fuck, die. Maybe, if lucky: love.” Read from Jade Song’s new novel, I Love You Don’t Die. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Having committed a genocide in Gaza, they are now unleashing hell in Iran and Lebanon.” Responses to the American-Israeli war on Iran. | Equator
- “In the Hooververse, problems are individual, never systemic, and are resolved individually.” Alexis Soloski explores the “fervid demand” to adapt Colleen Hoover’s novels. | The New York Times
- Kim Phillips-Fein considers Bernie Goetz and the enduring politics of fear. | The New Republic
- “AI is no longer stealing our jobs. We’re stealing its job!” Want to fight AI? Maybe try becoming it. | Aftermath
- How cops transformed a piece of film criticism into evidence against a protester. | The Intercept
- Grammarly might have rolled back its decision to mimic writers without permission, but Sabrina Imbler still feels validated in hating the digital writing assistant. | Defector
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