Lit Hub Daily: March 26, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1911, Tennessee Williams is born.
- “The King of the Beats has always attracted a fair amount of attention from collectors—especially since his passing in 1969.” The history of Jack Kerouac’s posthumous manuscript sales. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Stephanie Gorton talks to William Kennedy, legendary author of Ironweed, about turning a bedtime story for his four-year-old into Charlie Malarkey and the Belly-button Machine. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- If you’ve ever wanted to see the Habsburgs marry their way across Europe, now’s your chance! | Lit Hub History
- “With minimal skepticism, he platforms schemes that range from the contested and implausible…to the wholly impossible.” Five book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Bar Fridman-Tell recommends six books that unravel and remake fairytales by Kelly Link, Roshani Chokshi, T. Kingfisher, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Am I the asshole for thinking book publicity is cringe? | Lit Hub Advice
- Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “When we reach across a divide—to listen, to share our common humanity, we remember the glue that binds us.” The community-building power of a single cup of tea. | Lit Hub Food
- “During a January thaw, water trickled from a burst pipe down an interior wall, into a basement storage closet, and ruined all of Dora’s wedding dresses.” Read from Louise Erdrich’s new collection, Python’s Kiss. | Lit Hub Fiction
- A fun new side effect of mass AI adoption: some people (including, disproportionately, non-native English speakers) are being falsely accused of using it to write. | New York Magazine
- “Institutions, by design, seek to flatten us.” On autism, institutions, and the cost of thriving. | Dirt
- During the Paris Commune, France’s National Printing House repurposed the same fonts once used by kings and emperors for the workers. | Jacobin
- “Is life worth living? Yes—I have more Laxness to read.” On the rich oeuvre of Halldór Laxness. | Asymptote
- Bee Wertheimer pens a love letter to the forgotten girlie games of a long-gone internet. | Aftermath
- Namwali Serpell talks to Nicholas Russell about Toni Morrision, the artist: “The reason that marginalized writers, in particular women and black people, get overwhelmed or occluded by their own stature is traceable to the origins of their writing, their literature.” | Defector
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