Lit Hub Daily: October 28, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1726, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift is published.
- Emma Cole dissects the romance and horror in some of Hitchcock’s most iconic films: “Hitchcock knows there must be some emotional investment from the audience.” | Lit Hub Film
- At 300 years old, Gulliver’s Travels still has so much to teach us. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Choosing the writing life means taking a risk, but
- How writing post-apocalyptic fiction can reveal what really matters about us and the world. | Lit Hub Craft
- Why so many big pieces of European art love to feature tiny dogs. | Lit Hub Art
- “I saw that I would have to commit to a story the way a preacher commits to a text, accepting its limitations before I could explore its depth.” Mindy Misener applies the lessons she learned as a preacher to her writing. | Lit Hub Craft
- Josie Adams on co-writing a book with her father, Tony Shalhoub, and imitating his voice on the page. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “Ten years later, long after I left those wards, I still carry these moments around with me.” What working in the emergency department as a doctor taught Joanna Cannon about death. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “Bajirao knew Gayatri was giving him her wordless approval. All she had to do was brush her fingers over her nose ring and clear her throat.” Read from Sonora Jha’s novel, Foreign. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Forevermore, Laura Miller requests that you put some respect on Poe’s name. | Slate
- Léo Keler documents the cahiers de doléances, notebooks “made available in more than 16,000 town halls across France so that people could put their concerns and frustrations into words”—which then faded into obscurity (trans. Katie Assef). | The Dial
- When indie publishers die, we lose “the heartbeat of the industry, offering the few spaces to truly develop authors across their careers and take chances on projects.” | Chicago Review of Books
- Annie Ernaux on the student protests, her Nobel Prize, autofiction, and more. | Vulture
- “Instead of building better systems of community care, federal, state, and local governments had largely abandoned individuals who had previously been institutionalized in psychiatric hospitals.” Livia Gershon considers the role of mental hospitals in horror. | JSTOR Daily
- Walker Rutter-Bowman explores the second life of Cynthia Buchanan’s “fizzy and jagged, tart and parodic” Maiden. | The Paris Review
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