“I saw that the blue ridge mountains were everywhere, and that the gift of fiction was to connect me to everybody.” Robert Morgan remembers reading War and Peace for the first time.
09.03.2026 16:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“I saw that the blue ridge mountains were everywhere, and that the gift of fiction was to connect me to everybody.” Robert Morgan remembers reading War and Peace for the first time.
09.03.2026 16:00 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Economists are the unacknowledged poets of the world.” Ed Simon considers money as an overlooked language.
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What being a professional athlete can teach you about writing.
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“I feel wild and lonely, and wonder if that’s how I am desired: unknown and at a distance. It’s easier not to care from that far away.”—Michael Torres #AbolishICE @literaryhub.bsky.social
06.03.2026 22:16 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Why are there so many Jane Austen adaptations? And why do we keep watching?
09.03.2026 14:30 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0The Authors Guild is expanding its Human Authored certification program to allow publishers and non-Guild members certify that their work is untainted by AI.
08.03.2026 19:00 — 👍 33 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1Indies, genre, and trends towards the analog are all to thank for helping an increase in adult fiction sales.
08.03.2026 17:01 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0In case you missed it: Workers at the American Library Association have announced that they’re forming union with AFSCME Council 31.
08.03.2026 15:01 — 👍 29 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0Brittany Allen recommends books to help you understand what’s happening in Iran.
07.03.2026 20:00 — 👍 18 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0The Lit Hub staff spent the week loving omakase, booksellers, and more!
07.03.2026 18:00 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0From publishing scams to iced coffee, catch up on the news with these Venn diagrams.
07.03.2026 16:00 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0“Aphrodite perched on her rock at Paphos, and looked out at the Cyprian sea. No wonder she always came here when one or another of the gods had irritated her.” Read from @nataliehaynes.bsky.social’s novel, No Friend to This House.
06.03.2026 21:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Benjamin Hale explains the process of turning a magazine article into a book.
06.03.2026 20:30 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Saba Sams’ Gunk, Vigdis Hjorth’s Repetition, and Terry Tempest Williams’ The Glorians all number among the best reviewed books of the week.
06.03.2026 19:30 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Jess deCourcy Hinds celebrates the librarians who inspired her for International Women’s Day.
06.03.2026 18:30 — 👍 22 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0Ronen Givony traces the ascent of Pitchfork and the early days of online music criticism.
06.03.2026 17:30 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0“I wish you green-blue walks along / the river’s edge, the verge, the itch / of wishing quelled by knowing well—” Read “French Walk,” a poem by Anna Lena Phillips Bell from the collection Might Could.
06.03.2026 17:01 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0“She held all the possibilities at once, suspended in uncertainty.” Stories from America’s caregiving crisis.
06.03.2026 16:30 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0“I think part of the role of ambiguity relates to my own ambivalence. I don’t know what to make of things.” Larry Sultan on art and ambiguity.
06.03.2026 16:00 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The pathway out of poverty can only be cleared—and forged—when we all are involved and recognize parents in poverty as capable and worthy. The parents Nicole Lynn Lewis refers to are student parents who are raising kids while getting a degree. @literaryhub.bsky.social
06.03.2026 14:13 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Are we reviewing ourselves to death? “If someone tells me something nice, great, but otherwise, I’ve done my part. I made you a thing, world. I gave you a piece of myself.”
06.03.2026 15:30 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 7“When Sneaky Snook in his mail truck happened upon the wreckage near the boundary of Meredith Downs, sheep were scattered along the roadside and the fence, bleating, dazed.” Read from M.L. Stedman’s new novel, A Far-flung Life.
05.03.2026 20:30 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0“January wears two faces— / you will call one future, the other / history, both are elsewhere.” Read Carolina Ebeid’s poem “The Terrible Years.” from the collection, Hide.
05.03.2026 20:00 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@marissalevien.bsky.social makes a case against gamified reading.
05.03.2026 19:30 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2How expanding educational opportunities can carve paths away from poverty.
05.03.2026 19:02 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0“The beauty and breadth of the landscape stand in counterpoint to the horrors of the human lives playing out upon it.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week.
05.03.2026 18:30 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0“We can go to poetry to mark the design of the world we see and the world we desire to conjure.” Camonghne Felix on the liberatory potential of poetry.
05.03.2026 18:00 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On Ezra Pound, Mussolini’s biggest fan: “…Pound lauded Mussolini’s accomplishments—such as reducing crime and improving Italy’s road and railway networks—while also advocating that fascism was the only cure…”
05.03.2026 17:30 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 3Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction.
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