Lit Hub Daily: October 15, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1926, Michel Foucault is born.
- You’ve heard of cottagecore, but what about bogcore? Anna North introduces you to the genre via work by Annie Proulx, Kay Chronister, Seamus Heaney and more. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Why are publishers suing big tech with one hand and embracing AI with the other? | Lit Hub Technology
- Jaclyn Gilbert reflects on gun violence and how we learn to protect ourselves. | Lit Hub Politics
- David Naimon’s TBR includes writing by Sabrina Orah Mark, Evelyn Araluen, and Mykaela Saunders. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “If these characters were dogs, they would be constantly lifting their legs at one another.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Mark
- Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstore
- How Covid exposed wealth inequality and birthed a novel among the superyachts in Monaco. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “The embodied realm is eager for inquiry, if one is willing and interested.” Emily Hyland praises the poetics of physicality. | Lit Hub Craft
- Cundill History Prize finalist Jonathan Cheng recommends books on North Korea’s cult of personality by Barbara Demick, Richard E. Kim, and more. | Lit Hub History
- Meet Biddy Mason, the formerly enslaved woman who helped build Los Angeles. | Lit Hub Biography
- “There are epiphanies. Posts of stern nonfictions. There arise in us strong / love affairs with feedback.” Read “Cruise Control,” a new poem by Eric Amling from his collection, Wet Manual. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “For years Phillip Tennent lived at the edge of the sea, where artefacts were washed up every day. Scavengers, professional and otherwise, came and went.” Read from M John Harrison’s Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, The End of Everything. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “I think that is my aspiration—not to write historical novels or autobiographical novels but to write to carry the past, and to bring its figures as close to the present as possible.” Yiyun Li on encountering the past in writing Music Against the Night. | The New Yorker
- Emma Copley Eisenberg on the art of the sex scene in the age of Ozempic. | Harper’s Bazaar
- did you hear? all the cool kids are typing in lowercase. | wired
- Lieke Marsman writes about life and poetry from the edge of death. | The Dial
- On the forgotten gay advice columnist Jeanne C. Barney. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- How the far-right fell in love with Charles Manson. | Jacobin
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