Lit Hub Daily: November 9, 2026

TODAY: In 1953, Dylan Thomas dies.

• What’s the best literary TV adaptation of all time? Vote in the first round of our bracket to help your favorite shows make it to the top! | Lit Hub
• If you’re a writer, being a fangirl online might pay off: “It felt like I’d been handed the keys to a new universe I hadn’t even known to look for.” | Lit Hub Craft
• David Congdon recommends books on Native American history by Eli Baxter, Philip J. Deloria, Grayhawk Perkins and many more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• Olivia Laing and Rachel Kushner discuss art, power, and Italian cinema from the 1970s at The Center for Fiction. | Lit Hub In Conversation
• Five Iranian writers document the January 2026 massacre in a non-mother tongue. | Lit Hub Craft
• The best time to watch The Librarians is with librarians during Banned Books Week. | Lit Hub Libraries
• “Moving between languages carries the text into a territory that is neither entirely one nor the other. It is a space in between.” Kirmen Uribe on being a Basque writer. | Lit Hub On Translation
• This week in literary history, America’s first lending library gets its first ten members. | Lit Hub History
• “Lori hadn’t heard from Freddie in a week or so. She wasn’t even sure if she had her daughter’s current address.” Read “Hello Daughter” from Sloane Murphy’s new collection, Shut Up, I Love You, I’ll Call You Tomorrow. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “The same technological change that once made it possible for a bunch of journalists to finally, finally publish the kind of magazine they’d always wanted has ended up cannibalizing all that creativity and industry.” Laura Miller on the life and death of Salon. | Slate
• What to read in a Russian prison, according to Evan Gershkovich. | Heist
• Andrew Lawler examines a crisis facing millions of archival documents. | The American Scholar
• On a rediscovered children’s classic by Goodnight Moon author Margaret Wise Brown. | The New York Times
• Publishers are withdrawing books by Russell Brand following the “comedian’s” rape and sexual assault conviction. | The Guardian