Lit Hub Daily: September 25, 2026

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

TODAY: In 1952, bell hooks is born.

• After 26 years, Cyberselfish, Paulina Borsook’s prophetic look at big tech, is more relevant than ever. | Lit Hub Technology
• “To win in significant ways, we will have to build and sustain movements, propelled by urgency, that move at a pace that we can maintain, collectively, for years to come.” Chris Dixon looks at the necessity of organizing. | Lit Hub Politics
• Gloria Steinem’s An Unexpected Life, Naomi Alderman’s The Strangers, Chuck Klosterman’s Rock*, and Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s Said the Dead all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
• Can’t make yourself write? The remedy could be a trip to the theater. | Lit Hub Craft
• On Grazia Deledda, the Sardinian Nobel Prize-winner the world needs to remember. | Lit Hub Biography
• Why middle age is the perfect time to return to dancing. | Lit Hub Memoir
• “Leaves tangled & braided in limp limbs / of the still surviving perennials, our yard a battlefield / of trees towering at least seventy feet high, squeezing out the sun.” Read “Ode to a Leaf Blower,” a poem by Jill Bialosky from the collection Mock Heart. | Lit Hub Poetry
• “There is a photograph of Paul walking on a lawn and carrying a life-sized version of the cross. It appears to be quite heavy, made of wood. It can be seen to rest upon his shoulders.” Read from V.H. Wildman’s new novel,  Shrine: A Little Book About Paul Thek. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Ed Simon considers The Corrections—”a novel of 2026 as well as of 2001”—at 25. | The Hedgehog Review
• Today in huh?, Sea World’s doing romantasy for Halloween, and they’re making it horny. | Wired
• Are graduate students okay? Cole Adams considers the state of higher education. | Public Books
• Anca L. Szilágyi praises garlic, the “poor man’s spice.” | Orion
• Andrew Nachemson reports on how Myanmar’s military regime tracks down dissidents, even abroad. | The Dial

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