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Lit Hub Daily: October 9, 2026
Children’s Picture Books Featuring Cut Paper and Collage Art
From Dud to Delicious: Deesha Philyaw on Raising the Stakes in Fiction
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. In 2006, when I started writing the book that would eventually become my debut novel The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman, I shared my first…
Beyond This World: 6 Must-Read Speculative Thrillers
You won't be able to put down these compelling, must-read speculative thrillers that go beyond our known world.
Queer Recognition, Estrangement, and the Great Grey Area in Between
Cross-stitch watercolor by Demetris Papadimitropoulos When Aly changed hir name, hir mother heard more than a new set of syllables. Margaret told researchers in Rin Reczek and Emma Bosley-Smith’s study that she felt Aly had…
Please Pass the Creepypasta: 13 Novels Based on Internet Horror
Creepypasta is folklore for the internet age. If you love a scary read, you'll want to pick up these creepypasta novels.
Jérôme Lindon, Jérôme Lindon: On the Relationship Between Jean Echenoz and His Publisher
Jean Echenoz’s Jérôme Lindon recounts, in sixty spare, affectionate, sometimes lightly barbed pages, the twenty-year relationship that its author enjoyed with his publisher, a legend of the French literary establishment. The…
Graphic Novels About Therapy for World Mental Health Day
Read these outstanding graphic novels about therapy to explore the world of mental health and its treatment options.
Alice Elliott Dark’s Afterword to “In the Gloaming”
It began when I heard a sentence: “He wanted to talk again, suddenly.” The words cut sharply into the jumble of to-do lists, fantasies, snippets of possible writing, worry, and leftover traces of postpartum depression that…
Want to Fight Book Bans? Start Here.
No one is coming to save us, so we must do it ourselves. Here are 60+ small tasks to help defend the right to read in 2026 and beyond.
Roadshow
Annie bought a fifth of whiskey from the liquor store beside the Starbucks because money was imminent, and because Vera’s addendum had knocked something loose that needed fixing, the image of her lips against Tom Selleck’s…
📚 Her bold and inventive oeuvre
It's been a big week in book awards
The Winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
Canadian poet Anne Carson, well-known for her translations, won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her bold and inventive oeuvre."
Taiwan Travelogue translator Lin King is calling out publishing’s “relay translation” practices.
Translator and writer Lin King released a statement on Instagram on Tuesday laying out her claim of copyright infringement of her Booker-Prize-winning English translation of Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-Zǐ, originally written…
The 2026 Kirkus Prize Winners Have Been Announced
Last night, the 2026 the Kirkus Prize was awarded to authors in three categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young People's Literature.
