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Lit Hub Daily

June 29, 2026

TODAY: In 1861, Elizabeth Barrett Browning dies.

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Why readers still fall in love with Mr. Darcy, even after 200 years. | Lit Hub Criticism

Why one of the best American backpacking books was written by a Japanese Buddhist Beat poet. | Lit Hub Criticism

“The things I could not say, Satrapi finally said for me.” What Marjane Satrapi means to Naz Riahi as an Iranian in exile. | Lit Hub Memoir

Beep beep! Brenda C. Wilson remembers the bookmobile that sparked her love of reading. | Lit Hub Memoir

Natalie Adler and Sarah Schulman talk about AIDS history and querying agents with the phrase “dyke about town.” | Lit Hub In Conversation

Since America’s turning 250, here are pieces on American literary history from the Lit Hub archives. | Lit Hub History

“By Friday, I was back at Margaret’s house with an itchiness between us. I found her to be too pleased with herself.” Read from Sonia Feldman’s debut novel, Girls'’Girl. | Lit Hub Fiction

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Viet Thanh Nguyen considers America’s “double helix of beauty and brutality, a weave that binds our present to our past.” | The Nation

Everyone’s pretty excited: In defense of sports clichés. | The Paris Review

“It seems obvious to me that it’s not appealing to have to apply 40 different things every night. Why would that be good?” Caroline Reilly and Megan Nolan discuss the aesthetic legacy of Patrick Bateman. | Dirt

Why in Trump’s America, you can now get 30 years in prison for possessing zines. | The Intercept

Diana Bellonby considers the queerness of Vernon Lee’s ghost stories. | Los Angeles Review of Books

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