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Am I the Literary Asshole For Thinking Most Writers Are Trash, Actually?

Lit Hub Daily: May 7, 2026

Ocean Vuong: Photograph First, Writer Second?

On the Aftermath of Conversion Therapy

What Our Ideas About Ugliness Reveal About Our Anxieties Surrounding Gender

Fellow Travelers: On Reimagining Chaucer in Post-Soviet Ukraine

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

In Writing About Cults (and Religion) Telling is Better than Showing

New York Pastoral: Sitting Outside and Inside With Eileen Myles

We Need More Geriatric Heroines: Seven Books About Actually-Old Women

Where I End, the Writing Begins: What Undergoing Surgery Taught Me About Transcendence

How the Fanatical Legion of Mary Secreted Young Girls Away to Toil in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

Scott Anderson on the Iranian Revolution

Unions are having a moment in publishing. Here’s why.

Lit Hub Daily: May 6, 2026

Happiness is Within Reach! And Other Fragments of Ancient Greek Wisdom

“Mise en Abyme,” a Poem by Lisa Russ Spaar

“No One Talked.” On Growing Up Under Brazil’s Military Dictatorship

The Power of the Stranger as Plot

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on Moving From Resolve to Action, Addressing the Climate Crisis

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