Lit Hub Daily: October 30, 2026
How AI is dragging us towards a future that rips the body out of body horror. | Lit Hub Technology October’s best book covers aren’t spooky, but it’s scary how much we love them. …
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Help a group make room for different voices without forcing equal performances. Explore quiet participation, long contributions, difficult disagreements and new-member welcomes, alongside ways to share invisible work and respond when a meeting needs repair.
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On Writing About Syria’s Uyghur Community As a Chinese-American
All photos by Emily Feng The story began like this: I was moving back to the United States, after having lived abroad for the last ten years, working as a foreign correspondent, and while all my be…
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It’s Ok to Judge a Book By Its Cover (It’s Impossible Not To)
For a coterie of dandyish readers during the Victorian Mauve Nineties, The Yellow Book provided something novel—book cover designs. When the literary quarterly released its first volume in the spri…
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Hernan Diaz's New Novel Isn’t a Dystopia—Trust Him
Pulitzer winner Hernan Diaz releases his first novel in four years this week, and he’s parrying a few questions about genre. “I take issue with the word dystopia,” he replies to an opening inquiry.…
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Books Set in Bookstores That Get the Book Business Right
Bookseller and author Kim van Alkemade recommends three books set in bookstores that get the book business right.
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The Biggest Literary Controversies of the Last 15 Years: Part 2
A lot went down in 15 years, from author scandals to viral sensations, and more.
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Sci-Fi and Fantasy Shows and Movies to Watch This Weekend
There’s Slavic witchcraft for fans of Hudson Williams, supernatural horror adapted from a modern classic, body horror, and more.
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How Navigating the Demands of Academia Helped Me Cope With Terrible Loss
The first summer after my daughter died, I received an email invitation to give a keynote address the next spring. I didn’t know the scholar who invited me, but she’d been told that my daughter had…
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