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Lit Hub Daily: June 10, 2026

The Man Who Killed the Last Eastern Elk in America—And Was Proud of It

Retracing the Steps of Sylvia Plath in Paris (and Rome, and Cape Cod, and Wellesley…)

Is This the Strangest Soccer Novel Ever Written?

Brodie Crellin Recommends Six Books With Actually Realistic Sex

To Know a Person Entirely: Re-Discovering My Grandfather Through Fiction

“Our Damage Doesn’t Define Us.” What We Owe to the Natural World and Each Other

Why Do We Keep Murdering Our Darlings?

How We Paint Dogs Says More About Us Than It Does Them

I’ll Take the Fire

A content creator tried to trademark “Hot Girls Read.” BookTok clapped back.

Lit Hub Daily: June 9, 2026

Dave Eggers on Writing a Sprawling Novel of Art and Artists

An “Intellectual Monster…” Why Muriel Spark Never Married

What’s in a Book’s Name? One Writer’s Journey to Finding the Perfect Title

Lauren Acompora 7 Books About Deep Human-Animal Connections

Grief, Rage, and Restraint: Zinzi Clemmons on Telling Her Own Story

“Effaced…” A Poem by Jawdat Fakhreddine

Villa Coco

Andrew Sean Greer, Dave Eggers, Leila Slimani, and more: 23 new books out today!

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