Lit Hub Daily: May 11, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1926, C.S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien meet for the first time.
- Lilian Pizzichini searches for the Elsa Schiaparelli dress from Muriel Spark’s The Girls of Slender Means. | Lit Hub Art
- “In other words, this high drama of winners and losers follows a very, very old human narrative tradition rooted in our craving for catharsis.” What the Kardashians have in common with the WWE. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Lerone Martin chronicles the day a teenage Martin Luther King Jr. confronted Jim Crow by rail. | Lit Hub History
- Christiana Spens maps out the literary islands that inspired her novel, The Colony. | Lit Hub Craft
- When Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz went to Buenos Aires: “He said that walking off the ship that afternoon holding his two cases, trying to understand what he had just done, was the most tragic moment of his life.” | Lit Hub Biography
- This week in literary history, Mrs Dalloway is first published (and yes, she did say she’d buy the flowers herself). | Lit Hub History
- How can you tell what an author means? It’s all about the relationship between writer and reader. | Lit Hub Craft
- Oogly, gluggaveður, hatsuyuki and more: Ella Frances Sanders explores the language of weather. | Lit Hub Climate Change
- “Teaching, Darcy’s father had always told her, was useful work.” Read “How My Light Is Spent,” from Julie Schumacher’s collection Patient, Female. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “I realized that I felt more comfortable at the range than I did at literary events, where my reputation was premised on the revelation of my crimes, like a confessional.” Reginald Dwayne Betts on finding solace at a gun range. | The New York Times Magazine
- Katharine K. Wilkinson considers what it means to feel at home in a changing world. | Orion
- Alexandra Schwartz considers the “factual and dramatic lacuna” of Ben Lerner’s Transcription. | Broadcast
- John J. Lennon remembers a mother-son relationship marked by two different kinds of prisons. | Esquire
- Gideon Leek considers the post-trauma plot novel. | New York Magazine
- Why people embrace hate, according to Sartre. | JSTOR Daily
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