Lit Hub Daily: November 2, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1890, Moa Martinson is born.
- How A Working Mother, Agnes Owens’s novel of the Scottish working class, reveals “the surrealness of everyday life.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- Caroline Carlson recommends great children’s books coming in November by Neil Sharpson, Avi Steinberg, Gideon Sterer and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- This month’s best new poetry collections feature glass skulls, luminosity, soup, and other miracles! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Dilman Dila, Faraaz Mahomed, and Sven Axelrad discuss spirits and ghosts in African literary traditions with
- Books by Hermione Lee, Jessica Craig-Martin, and Olivia Swarthout featured in the best new nonfiction out this November. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- These upcoming sci-fi and fantasy books will introduce you to vampiric broodmothers, gig-economy ghosts, and medieval abortionists. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- This week in literary history, Sinclair Lewis becomes the first American writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. | Lit Hub History
- “To ride across the bay at this hour is to see Shep’s Island at its most beautiful.” Read from Rose Smith’s new novel, The Shared Life of Egan and Lucian. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Meet Malfoid, the (ironically gender-swapped) Harry Potter meme of far-right incel origin. | Wired
- Grace Byron talks to Alexandra Schwartz about exorcism, Goodreads warriors, and other more little frights. | Broadcast
- “She saw up close the fine line between the confessional and the salacious, the difficulties of being an admired public figure and an object of prurience.” Meghan Racklin on Tove Ditlevsen’s life and work (and the spaces between). | The New Republic
- MFAs are good, actually? “Why so much ire? We don’t get mad about college for HVAC.” | The Walrus
- Why the dilettante is the (anti)hero we need. | Aeon
- Rebecca Onion talks to Ursula Wills, the author of the short story that inspired the movie Wicker. | Slate
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