Lit Hub Daily: October 7, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1849, Edgar Allan Poe dies.
- “As trans people, each articulation of who we are is also an articulation of who we will no longer be.”
- On the immortality of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire as it turns 50. | Lit Hub Criticism
- What we can understand about the global far-right through examining the state of Brazilian politics. | Lit Hub Politics
- Kelly Marie Coyne explores the cycle of life and death in Sylvia Plath’s unpublished poems. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Bill McKibben talks to Leah C. Stokes about climate activism as a long, slow process. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Oleksandr Mykhed remembers how Russia and its war has destroyed Ukrainian books, lives, and livelihoods. | Lit Hub Politics
- On the history of Señorita Rio (and other iconic women spies in comics). | Lit Hub History
- Why America’s deportation machine is a war “predicated on the same things as previous American wars: genocide, white supremacy, and body counts.” | Lit Hub Politics
- “The woman first saw the stranded pilgrim, babe in arms, on a poster on the wall of the Medieval Center at the University of Bordeaux the year she finally studied abroad.” Read from Ellen O’Connell Whittet’s new novel, Book of Hours. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “No tests. No judgey ideologies. No ways you ‘have’ to read the book. No ‘right’ way to read it. Free-form reading!” Randy Boyagoda tells the story of the genesis and success of the “Dead Book Club” at the University of Toronto. | Chronicle of Higher Education
- William Harris listens to the sound of the electric car: “a tune from nowhere, deep and airy, without the shrill oblivion of the sun recordings or the ribcage resonance of the didgeridoo.” | n+1
- Jessica Traynor wants more out of the “I left big tech” memoir: “Who was all of this tech work meant to serve? In both books, I am at a loss to see what, other than vague ideas of community, was the supposed enlightened aim.” | The Dial
- John Semley considers the ethics of predator catching content and Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime. | The Baffler
- Patricia Lockwood on her new book, group chats, riding a tandem bike, and more. | The Walrus
- How does ICANN decide which words become website domains? Why the address for your personal page could soon end in .meow or .fart. | Wired
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