Lit Hub Daily: July 7, 2026

Lit Hub Daily: July 7, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET - How Joyce Carol Oates, queen of the literary internet, examines “the dispiriting effects of technology on contemporary life” in her new collection, The Frenzy. | Lit Hub Criticism - Bryan Charles follows AI’s slow, steady invasion of literary translation. | Lit Hub On Translation - What it means to consider the memory of Jonestown as a Guyanese-American author. | Lit Hub Memoir - Kathleen Rooney recommends nine great books about survival at sea by Herbert Clyde Lewis, Robert Hughes, Rachel Carson and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists - Angelica Glass finds beauty locally by exploring every street of Santa Cruz County. | Lit Hub Memoir - The 21 new titles out today include books by Daniel Mason, Rachel Aviv, and Emeline Atwood! | Lit Hub Reading Lists - “And as a last hoorah, I did the one thing I thought I’d never do. Make shit up.” On the freeing power of writing fiction for the first time. | Lit Hub Craft - “The wife had been offered a one-year visiting professorship at a college in Vermont, and the husband was married to the wife.” Read from Daniel Mason’s new novel, Country People.| Lit Hub Fiction - How Palestinians are building digital archives in the face of genocide. | Wired - Why skilled hobbies are flourishing in the AI era. | Aeon - In case you haven’t had your daily dose of schadenfreude, here’s a review of Dave Portnoy’s book. | Slate - Quinta Jurecic looks into the complete lack of investigation into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, six months on. | The Atlantic - Rosemary Counter digs into the fascinating, lesser-known details of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life, from Pa’s precarious finances to prairie serial killers. | Vanity Fair - “The paradox of the will centers on the problem of desire. I can very often will what I want (I am capable enough), but the wanting itself is not under my control.” Meghan O’Gieblyn reads Simone Weil and considers the paradox of willpower. | Harper’s Article continues after advertisement