Lit Hub Daily: September 22, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age is published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York.
- “The audience is present even when no one else is in the room.” examines just how far the need to perform for digital spectators has seeped into real life. | Lit Hub Technology
- Why we love the thrill of exploring old buildings and their long-hidden secrets. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Neil Griffin considers nature, wonder, and what we lose when a species goes extinct. | Lit Hub Nature
- The 20 new books out today include titles by Gloria Steinem, John Green, Lucy Foley, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Benjamin Moser introduces you to Hyman Judah Schachtel, the anti-Zionist rabbi of Houston. | Lit Hub History
- Why John Green gives himself permission to suck (and more answers to questions about literary life). | Lit Hub In Conversation
- “One year after the death you throw a party.” Read from Laleh Khadivi’s new novel, Female Life on Planet Earth. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Rebecca Onion read Andrew Huberman’s 540-page Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body, and all she got was “a frenzied feeling of insufficiency.” | Slate
- James Young Phillips, author of the largely forgotten 1940 novel The Inheritors, “was compared by prominent critics to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway”—and thanks to a re-issue the book is getting a second chance to find its audience. | Texas Monthly
- Nancy Foley remembers her cross-generational friendship with the late painter Robert Kabak, or as she calls him, Bob. | Oldster
- John Hay looks at The Sea Beast, the earliest cinematic adaptation of Moby-Dick. | The Paris Review
- Alex Dueben interviews underground legend and graphic biographer Sharon Rudahl. | The Comics Journal
- China Miéville talks to Nicholas Russell about taking 20 years to write The Rouse. | Defector
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