Lit Hub Daily: September 30, 2026
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
TODAY: In 1924, Truman Capote is born.
- “Chalk it up to stubbornness. McGuane is as committed to his vision as his characters are to theirs.” Why Thomas McGuane is writing the most vital literature of the Trump Era.| Lit Hub Criticism
- Happy International Translation Day! Here are takes on literary translation from the experts. | Lit Hub On Translation
- “He is ensuring that what he feels and what he thinks are secondary to the subject, the person who is dead or dying.” Colm Tóibín reflects on the poetry of Thom Gunn. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Why Silicon Valley’s technofascists are “just another generation of elites who hate democracy because it means they can’t be 100 percent self-interested.” | Lit Hub Politics
- Get ready to appreciate the artistry of September’s best book covers. | Lit Hub Design
- Marlon James’ The Disappearers, Jon Ronson’s The Castle, Emily St. John Mandel’s Exit Party, and Emily Wilson’s Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea all feature among September’s best reviewed books. | Book Marks
- These 20 great books are coming out in paperback this October. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- Who gets to have a baby in America? Why fertility care is basic healthcare. | Lit Hub Health
- Jason Bell recounts the secret three-man mission that won the Allies World War II. | Lit Hub History
- “The week after we ransacked my grandmother’s house for bounty, we drove back to Maple Falls to attend as guests my grandmother’s memorial at the Northwest Hills Community Church.” Read from Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s new novel, Heavy Cream. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Patrick Redford revisits the story of the Spine Collector, the low-stakes scammer who risked it all to pull one over on the publishing world. | Defector
- “Connelly is off kilter. Gary Indiana dubbed him a ‘renaissance goofball-wit,’ and that starts to suggest the perversity of his methods.” On the art of Arch Connelly. | The Baffler
- Christian Wessels explores how Fady Joudah’s Exhibit G “does not merely reflect the sensibility of a single mind, instead enacting a communion with local and diasporic Palestinians living through the genocide.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
- What’s the best way to determine how hot a book is? A ranking scale, obviously. | The Cut
- Why the decline in literacy is directly linked to the decline of democracy. | Jacobin
- Bartolomeo Sala reports from the first academic conference centering the works of Umberto Eco since his death. | The Dial
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