Lit Hub Daily: September 17, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1902, Bea Miles, an Australian woman known for her bohemian life and ability to quote any passage from Shakespeare (for a price), is born.
- Who says nonfiction is in crisis? Maris Kreizman recommends 14 nonfiction titles to look forward to in the remainder of 2026. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Nadia Bowers and Stephanie Wittels Wachs discuss writing about the opioid crisis and losing loved ones to addiction. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- How Nanako Hanada offers book recommendations to strangers from the internet. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Winnie M. Li highlight books about the Great American Road Trip starring people of color by Valeria Luiselli, William Least Heat-Moon, Jesmyn Ward and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “The result is a strange, bewitching experiment in autobiography.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- “Wong provides us with a road map of how to forge ahead even under the most difficult of circumstances.” Remembering Anna May Wong, cinema icon and Hollywood’s first Asian-American star. | Lit Hub Biography
- Elizabeth Metzger recommends nine collections of breakup poetry by Anne Carson, Sandra Lim, Maggie Millner, and more. | Lit Hub Craft
- “There is a simple recipe for making rice. My father taught it to me when I was a child.” Read from Madeleine Thien’s new novel, Simple Recipes. | Lit Hub Fiction
- A group of academics have constructed an archive to remember the Palestinian scholars murdered in the Gaza genocide. | Public Books
- “We navigate the world by means of a tiny ocean enclosed within our heads”: A psychoanalytic history of the sea. | Pioneer Works
- Francesca Giangiulio considers Anthony Bourdain’s recently reissued crime novels. | Salon
- Kali Wallace explores how a trashy pulp novel became classic poetic horror movie Eyes Without a Face. | Reactor
- Jordan Crane talks to Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez about 45 years of drawing and writing. | The Comics Journal
- Lessons learned from the letters of Harold Bloom. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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