Lit Hub Daily: November 10, 2026

TODAY: In 1950, William Faulkner is awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.

• Eve Sneider on the genius of Janet Malcolm, who “was running circles around everyone else.” | Lit Hub Biography
• The revolution won’t be televised, but it might be telephoned. | Lit Hub History
• Jane Ciabattari talks to Karen Olsson, author of Dear Thorns, about her novel and the endangered species of South Texas. | Lit Hub In Conversation
• Ted Scheinman, “a grateful zapee,” recommends books on electroconvulsive therapy Sylvia Plath, Robert Pirsig, Donald Antrim and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• Round two is here! Vote in our bracket to determine the best literary TV adaptation of all time and help crown your favorite the champion of literary television. | Lit Hub
• Why do we sing? “Music still contains the purest thrill: its intensity and intentionality, its rhythm and disruptions, its ability to surprise, to shock.” | Lit Hub Memoir
• The 20 new books out today include titles by Annie Proulx, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Maddow, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• Tahmima Anam, Nick Paumgarten, Gabriel Bump and more authors with recent books take the Lit Hub questionnaire. | Lit Hub In Conversation
• “On the outskirts of the 3rd Mainland Bridge, the old lady dropped Alohan off.” Read from Chinelo Okparanta’s new novel, This Impossible Life. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “I grasped about my interior for whatever dark magic makes a plain woman irresistible to people for other reasons, but I didn’t have it.” Merritt Tierce on desire and the calculus of modern dating. | The New Yorker
• Among the “difficult patients”: Peter Trachtenberg on conditions in the ER. | Granta
• Sloan Murphy on her collection Shut Up, I Love You, I’ll Call You Tomorrow and being drunk in Chicago. | Defector
• What can two new books on the histories of science and philosophy teach us about the agency of living beings? | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Six writers and academics reflect on the legacy of Antonio Gramsci, antifascist Italian revolutionary. | Public Books
• Roger Conover explores the act of book collecting as a creative process. | William Stout Architectural Books