Lit Hub Daily: May 7, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1812, Robert Browning is born.
- Sarah Moroz considers “the poignant sibling renaissance” of Ocean Vuong’s first photography exhibition. | Lit Hub Photography
- Davin Malasarn and Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez talk about writing books that explore questions of family, queer identity, and the violence of conversion therapy. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Rosa Campbell explains why sitting outside is especially Eileen Myles-coded. | Lit Hub Criticism
- For Diane Les Becquets, surgery was a transcendent experience. | Lit Hub Craft
- “One can barely imagine the intolerable weight of this family inheritance…irresistible for so many years yet the only thing one wants to escape.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- Are you the asshole if you think most writers are bad? Kristen Arnett offers some advice. | Lit Hub Advice
- Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- “Something about seeing faith at its most extreme and uncompromising allowed me to make room for a faith that was more welcoming, a faith that had room for doubt.” On writing about cults. | Lit Hub Craft
- We need more books about (actually) old women. Laurie Frankel recommends some by Susie Boyt, Tove Jansson, Zadie Smith, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “The day I heard, it rained hard. Long streaks outside my window, sleet as I walked to the train.” Read from Kyle McCarthy’s new novel, Immersions. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Kimberlé Crenshaw talks to Amy Goodman about her new memoir, the Voting Rights Act, and what gives her hope. | Democracy Now!
- Five major publishers (including Hachette and Macmillan) and Scott Turow have filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that they illegally used copyrighted works to train Meta’s AI program. | The New York Times
- Dena Yago considers childhood and online censorship (and remembers infamous shock site rotten.com). | The Paris Review
- “Despite their meticulously curated reputation for ruthless invincibility, the leaders of the Third Reich were sensitive to mockery and satire.” Hank Kennedy chronicles the Nazi war on cartoons. | The Comics Journal
- In response to tech fatigue, people are embracing the elite aesthetics of imperfection. | The New Yorker
- Why some authors are replacing conventional book tours with “decentralized” press on Substack and beyond. | Fast Company
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