Lit Hub Daily: September 3, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1897, Sally Benson is born.
- How J.P. Donleavy‘s The Ginger Man clawed its way to press: “He maintained The Ginger Man, a serious work of fiction, was being misrepresented, damaging the book and its prospects and his reputation as a serious writer.” | Lit Hub Biography
- Nick Offerman and Gary Lovely discuss aspiring to Wendell Berry. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- From his Cundill Prize-Shortlisted Shattered Lands, Sam Dalrymple looks at the scandalous, tumultuous private life of Pakistan’s founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. | Lit Hub History
- Maris Kreizman recommends books that take weird girl lit to the next level. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Environmental thinking on live music encourages a form of atmospheric accounting where scrutiny of the personal trees passes for consideration of the political forest.” On the carbon footprint of a rock show. | Lit Hub Music
- “Marlon James has written a masterpiece, the novel of the decade and possibly of the century thus far.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
- On searching Himalayan habitats for elusive snow leopard. | Lit Hub Nature
- There’s a new literary scam (and it involves emailing with George Orwell). | Lit Hub Craft
- Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction and nonfiction. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- Why humans can be so moved by the power and personalities of trees. | Lit Hub Nature
- “Dogs in Guatemala are like this. It’s what Molly would tell the teenage student beside her, weeping in the street over yet one more brutalized stray, if only it weren’t the worst possible time to stop and give explanations.” Read “Dogs in Guatemala” from Patricia Grace King’s story collection, Those Who Vanish. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Anne Carson writes about having a “Rosalía hangover.” | London Review of Books
- New York City is placing limits on the use of AI in classrooms. | The Verge
- “Here’s this month’s alimony, with all my love.” Read unpublished letters from Richard Yates. | The Paris Review
- Robert Rubsam considers the poetic journeys of Matsuo Bashō. | The Baffler
- Why Jane Mai’s Soft is the best 2010s indie comic you’ve never read. | The Comics Journal
- Explore the recent crop of novels mining the utopian literary potential of underground nightlife. | The New Yorker
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