Lit Hub Daily: March 17, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1741, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau is born.
- “Who knows if they even liked each other? But I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if they came back as lesbians?’” Jessica Ferri on Ann Rower’s Lee And Elaine. | Lit Hub Craft
- Wayne Koestenbaum, author of My Lover, the Rabbi, explains why Gilligan’s Island taught him “how to be bumbling and small while receiving the protection of an older, bigger man.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Hannah Lillith Assadi shares how her Palestinian father met her Jewish mother. | Lit Hub Memoir
- The 20 new books out today include titles by Ibram X. Kendi, Asako Yuzuki, Anne Lamott, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “When you get it right in basketball, the universe tells you so—the net makes a sound. The rewards you get from writing, the answering echoes, are a little harder to read.” Ben Markovits on the lessons he learned about writing from sports. | Lit Hub Sports
- “For our purposes, we begin with the eternal feminine / and its string of beads, end with you / as a girl in Eatonville…” Read “Eatonville, Florida,” a poem by Joshua Bennett from the collection We (The People Of The United States). | Lit Hub Poetry
- “If you met anyone as whiny, as disobliging and ego centric as the average narrator of a novel in real life you’d find them unbearable.” Read from Luke Kennard’s novel, Black Bag. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Do writers still require a room of one’s own? Joanna Scutts reconsiders Virginia Woolf’s enduring vision. | The New Republic
- Mara Marquez Cavallaro talks to California teachers who taught their students about Palestine and paid a steep price. | The Nation
- Hapens to the best of us: A new exhibition at the Yale Library explores the literary history of typos. | Smithsonian Magazine
- Why Jacques Lacan loved Harpo Marx: “Harpo is an automatic object-machine that converts both the world and himself into a polymorphously perverse source of jouissance.” | JSTOR Daily
- Are creativity and youth really besties? Keith Sawyer explains why not. | The MIT Press Reader
- Colm Tóibín on why he’d “happily shovel snow for Mamdani.” | The Times
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