Lit Hub Daily: September 15, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1889, Claude McKay is born.
- Don’t have time to read all those fall reading lists? That’s okay. We read them for you. Here’s the Ultimate Fall Reading List. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Gabe Bullard explores the detrimental nature of convenience (after writing a book about inconvenience). | Lit Hub Craft
- Emily St. John Mandel talks to Jane Ciabattari about dystopia and Exit Party: “To me, the doppelgangers are an embodiment of that counterlife: what if another of those versions of you were to suddenly appear before you?” | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Youssef Rakha considers the Orientalism of Lee Cronin’s The Mummy after watching it in Cairo. | Lit Hub Film
- “I love New York; it’s my home now. But Moscow was the city I loved first. I may never be able to go there again.” On coming to terms with modern Russia. | Lit Hub Politics
- Titles by Emily St. John Mandel, Leigh Bardugo, Kate Atkinson and more are among the 20 new books out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- How does Madeleine Thien organize her bookshelves? The author answers this and other questions. | Lit Hub Craft
- Sun Yung Shin reflects on family, identity, and being a Korean adoptee in the United States. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Jim Shepard, Paisley Rekdal, Emily Ogden and more authors with new books answer our questions about literary life. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “Flynn and Miss Ogilvie had been given no part to play in the blind judging of the Festival Cake.” Read from Kate Atkinson’s new novel, Our Noble Selves. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “If we ever reached a point of total automation, Weil argued, humans would destroy themselves out of boredom and restlessness.” Meghan O’Gieblyn on what Simone Weil and Arthur Schopenhauer understood about the individual. | New York Review of Books
- Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor go deep on Trump’s AI obsession. | Cultured
- Wouter Kusters explores the relationship between philosophy and psychosis. | The MIT Press Reader
- Making chatbots generate fiction about your “hyper-specific personal fantasies” instead of just writing it yourself is loser behavior, actually. | Wired
- Dennis M. Hogan wants to know what’s going on with improv. | The Baffler
- If you’re using ChatGPT, maybe this will change your mind: Open AI has a team of real people reading users’ prompts. | 404 Media
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