Lit Hub Daily: November 13, 2026

TODAY: In 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson is born.

• What being a Bills fan can teach you about writing (even when they lose). | Lit Hub Craft
• “True, the maze of indistinguishable cubicles was confusing, but was it not odd that the editor in chief didn’t know the way from the elevator to her office?” How Jessica Craig-Martin handled larger-than-life egos while working at Vogue. | Lit Hub Memoir
• We’re two rounds of voting away from crowing the Best Literary TV Adaptation of all time! Don’t miss your chance to help your favorite show make it to the top. | Lit Hub
• “Black women had been birthing, rearing, and mothering for centuries yet documentation of our collective and individual experience couldn’t be found. I was infuriated. I ached.” On Sasha Bonét’s The Waterbearers and the necessity of archiving Black motherhood. | Lit Hub Criticism
• Annie Proulx Stories, James Gleick’s The Telephone, Siân Hughes’s No Such Thing As Monday, and Lauren Elkin’s Vocal Break all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
• Maya Abuali considers books by Kaveh Akbar and Sally Rooney that explore the grief of political paralysis. | Lit Hub Criticism
• “Your first novel is the crappy scarf you make with acrylic yarn that doesn’t come out straight or even.” Why writing is like knitting. | Lit Hub Craft
• Kelly Grace Thomas on structure, storytelling, and assembling a page-turner of a poetry collection. | Lit Hub Craft
• “I was twenty-one and taking a train to Prague. The sun was blazing through the dirty windows of the old Czechoslo­vakian carriage as passengers looked out at the scenery and blew smoke.” Read from Dora Šustić’s novel Dogs, translated by Ena Selimović. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Martin Dolan considers the enduring appeal of the puzzle game. | The Baffler
• Kristen Roupenian considers Jane Schoenbrun’s Public Access Afterworld alongside Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. | New York Review of Books
• Between AI and literary scams, trust between readers and writers is becoming more precarious. | The Atlantic
• Jessica Winter considers the hellscape of ed-tech in the classroom. | The New Yorker
• Why the phrase “cultural Marxism” is on every right-winger’s lips. | Jacobin