Lit Hub Daily: October 13, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1958, Paddington Bear makes his first appearance.
- Adam Johnson talks to Amitav Ghosh about The Wayfinder, the many ways to tell a single story, and more at The Center for Fiction. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “To call such televised brutality sick would be to insult the sick. This was something else. This was cruelty made spectacle.” How the genocide in Gaza has changed the whole Middle East. | Lit Hub Politics
- Kawai Strong Washburn, Adam Wilson, Lauren Michele Jackson and other authors take the Lit Hub Questionnaire. | Lit Hub Craft
- The 20 new books out today include titles by Bonnie Garmus, Yiyun Li, Joy Harjo, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- These seven literary ghosts could be haunting you from the pages right now! | Lit Hub Criticism
- Josefine Kals Remembers Stephen Dixon: “His work is a beautiful, and urgent, reminder of the poignancy of life’s smallest moments.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Bonnie Garmus, author of Peck & Peck, talks to Jane Ciabattari about writing a coming-of-age novel of poets and poetry. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “Belatedly, John’s last words reached Adelaide. He had been dead for a fortnight, buried for ten days.” Read from Yiyun Li’s new novel, Music Against the Night.| Lit Hub Fiction
- “It may be easier to reduce a nonfiction book to its takeaways than it is for a novel. But to treat the genre in this way diminishes both its literariness and its political efficacy.” Tajja Isen on the publishing industry’s nonfiction blunders. | The Walrus
- All hail New Directions! | The New York Times
- Yiyun Li praises the “infinite genius” of Anne Carson. | The Guardian
- Media collectives are thriving, but “lesser-known journalists who want to launch their own publications lack the means to capitalize on this formula because they don’t already have avid readers.” | Dissent
- Publishing workers discuss the spread of AI use within the industry. | Wired
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