Lit Hub Daily: September 11, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1974, children’s book author Lois Lenski Covey dies.
- Where does Harlan Coben get ideas? “Sometimes, it’s a simple ‘what-if.’” | Lit Hub Craft
- Phillip Lopate explores the lore and legacy of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” | Lit Hub Biography
- Steven W. Thrasher reads No God But Us and The Sense of Brown while reflecting on the aftermath of 9/11. | Lit Hub Criticism
- On the demonization of Palestinian kites: “Hope is rebellion in its youngest form; it is the guileless expectation of a tomorrow the colonizer has already claimed for itself.” | Lit Hub Politics
- Linford D. Fisher traces the forgotten enslavement of Native Americans in the United States, from his Cundill Prize-shortlisted book, Stealing America. | Lit Hub History
- Emma Cline’s Switzy, Francis Fukuyama’s In the Realm of the Last Man, and R.F. Kuang’s Taipei all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- Tom Cole talks to utofiction, shame-based writing, and being an unreliable narrator. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “& our hibiscus is on that bullshit again. / You know the story.” Read “Late Summer in the Anthropocene,” a poem by Marcus Wicker from the collection Dear Mothership. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “An adult would never have been so bold, and this is one of the things I still admire in children, their unchecked curiosity.” Read from Amanda Peters’s new novel, The Birthing Tree. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Is The Legend of Zelda queer-coded? It’s not not queer-coded. | JSTOR Daily
- Federico Perelmuter considers Carolyn Forché and the future of poetry of witness in a world increasingly “razed into horror and multifarious catastrophe.” | Poetry
- Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp and Anam Zafar discuss children’s literature in translation. | Asymptote
- Henry Dykstal explores the art of adapting a comic as an opera. | The Comics Journal
- Feeling overwhelmed? Your medieval psychiatrist might prescribe ostrich liver, or maybe just a walk in the garden. | Aeon
- Daniel Lukes explores manga, misogyny, and the erotic grotesque via Shintaro Kago’s Brain Damage. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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