Lit Hub Daily: August 18, 2026

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The Maltese Version

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On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

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On Grief and Growing Up in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Why I Hiked the Appalachian Trail Twice—30 Years Apart

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Edwidge Danticat Wishes Her Former English Teachers Would Read Her Work

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Chiang-rae Lee on Channeling His Immigrant Childhood Into Fiction

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Joby Warrick, LaToya Watkins, Katy Simpson Smith, and more: 20 new books out today!

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Now Amazon is destroying rare books to train its AI.

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Lit Hub Daily: August 17, 2026

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Why Thoreau and Walden Resonate With Chinese Youth

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Reinventing the Slave Narrative: Ishmael Reed on Flight to Canada at 50

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After Six Decades and Thirty Novels Jodi Picoult Was Missing One Thing: A Tattoo

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On Good Fat, Bad Fat, and the Problems With BMI

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This Week in Literary History: Joseph Conrad Becomes a British Subject

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Lit Hub Weekly: August 10 – 14, 2026

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The Rumpus is launching a Spanish-language magazine.

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Before We Are Erased: Why I Founded Gaza Publications During the Genocide

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Miranda July, Jamel Brinkley, and More on Their Favorite (Re)reads

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Lit Hub Daily: August 14, 2026

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