Lit Hub Daily: September 14, 2026

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

TODAY: In 1321, Dante Alighieri dies.

• Does your town need a bookstore? Maybe you should start one. | Lit Hub Bookstores
• John J. Lennon Talks to Harriet Clark, Author of The Hill, about writing real and imagined lives in and outside of prison. | Lit Hub In Conversation
• “If this is all going on, how do we survive? What kind of stories do we tell ourselves to go through this?” Rabih Alameddine on writing humor in tragic times. | Lit Hub Craft
• This week in literary history, John Keats writes “To Autumn.” | Lit Hub History
• In case you have some space on your TBR, these are the most anticipated mysteries, thrillers, and crime novels coming this fall. | CrimeReads
• Kevin Dettmar explores the tragic history behind one of post-punk’s most iconic tracks: “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” | Lit Hub Music
• How raising a multilingual child taught Bo Wang to seamlessly incorporate English and Mandarin into her fiction. | Lit Hub Craft
• What should you watch next? Try all the literary film and TV coming to streaming this season. | Lit Hub Film
• “I am descended from Vikings.” Read from Abby Geni’s new novel, Children of the Wolf. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “We can’t help but love our own country, because in refusing it affection, in hating it, we can’t help but hate ourselves.” Ivan Kenneally on Mark Twain’s patriotism. | The Hedgehog Review
• Sophie Gilbert explores the world Jackie Collins imagined. | The Atlantic
• Krithika Varagur goes to Bayreuth, the century and a half old opera festival created by and featuring the works of Richard Wagner: “Something had certainly happened to me. Just a week prior, I had been unsure if I even liked Wagner.” | The Paris Review
• Clare Carlisle examines why the literature of spirituality “may occasionally allow us to transcend.” | Los Angeles Review of Books
• What does an administrator in higher education actually do? | Public Books

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