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Interrogating the Heaviness: On Resilience in Fiction and Real Life

“Brevity is the fuse attached to every breath,” a Poem by Bob Hicock

Small Boat

Danielle Bainbridge on Defying the Formula to Find Your Form

Lit Hub Weekly: April 13

Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

One great poem to read today: Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays”

What is the Best Literary Film Adaptation of the Last 50 Years? Day Five

Lit Hub Daily: April 17, 2026

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Ramona Ausubel’s Favorite Exercise for Getting Unstuck

Rasputin: Fraud, Mystic, Womanizer, Prophet… Or All of the Above?

On the Dark Arts of Writing Dangerously (and Marriage, and Life in L.A.)

What’s In a Name? Leise Hook on What Her American and Chinese Names Reveal About Herself

God Bless the Pill: Meet the Devout Catholic Who Invented Oral Contraception

The Annotated Nightstand: What Rachel Khong is Reading Now, And Next

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One great poem to read today: Alejandra Pizarnik’s “[All night I hear the noise of water sobbing.]”

What is the Best Literary Film Adaptation of the Last 50 Years? Day Four

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