Lit Hub Daily: March 4, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1852, Nikolai Gogol dies.
- Before the advent of AI, there were (and still are) ghostwriters. | Lit Hub Technology
- Noëlle de Leeuw examines Gisèle Pelicot’s memoir as an act of defiance and a call to social change. | Lit Hub Criticism
- If you’re done with the “men don’t read” discourse, trying reading about Kristopher Jansma’s all-male book club instead. | Lit Hub Craft
- Allison Markin Powell recounts the experience of translating and publishing the work of Kanako Nishi. | Lit Hub On Translation
- Loubna Mrie explores the intersections of family, faith and national history in Assad’s Syria. | Lit Hub Memoir
- How writing a book about diaries changed how Betsy Rubiner wrote in her own. | Lit Hub Craft
- Matthew Avery Sutton explores how Christianity shaped post-Civil War America. | Lit Hub History
- “I’ve wanted to be a mother for as long as I can recall. As a child, I had no friends my own age. At school, I preferred to play imaginary games with the younger kids in the playground.” Read from Saba Sams’s new novel, Gunk. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Apparently…we should be cleaning our books? Huh. | The Wirecutter
- “I don’t want any conclusions.” Hermione Lee and Adam Phillips discuss psychoanalysis, pessimism, and poetry. | Interview
- Lea Ypi, Joy Williams and Julia Wiedlocha have a conversation about translation. | The Dial
- On Maurice Gee’s Going West and “the tension between an imported tradition of peripatetic nation-making and the realities of life in a Pacific archipelago.” | Public Books
- On the “logical architecture” of Edgar Allan Poe’s writing process. | JSTOR Daily
- Greg Barnhisel on how editor Malcolm Cowley changed the status of American writing: “The story of Cowley’s career is a story not just of the convergence of generational literary talent but of a country refining the image it would present to the rest of the world.” | The New Republic
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