Lit Hub Daily: September 17, 2026

Lit Hub Daily: September 17, 2026 THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET - Who says nonfiction is in crisis? Maris Kreizman recommends 14 nonfiction titles to look forward to in the remainder of 2026. | Lit Hub Reading Lists - Nadia Bowers and Stephanie Wittels Wachs discuss writing about the opioid crisis and losing loved ones to addiction. | Lit Hub In Conversation - How Nanako Hanada offers book recommendations to strangers from the internet. | Lit Hub Memoir - Winnie M. Li highlight books about the Great American Road Trip starring people of color by Valeria Luiselli, William Least Heat-Moon, Jesmyn Ward and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists - “The result is a strange, bewitching experiment in autobiography.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks - “Wong provides us with a road map of how to forge ahead even under the most difficult of circumstances.” Remembering Anna May Wong, cinema icon and Hollywood’s first Asian-American star. | Lit Hub Biography - Elizabeth Metzger recommends nine collections of breakup poetry by Anne Carson, Sandra Lim, Maggie Millner, and more. | Lit Hub Craft - “There is a simple recipe for making rice. My father taught it to me when I was a child.” Read from Madeleine Thien’s new novel, Simple Recipes. | Lit Hub Fiction - A group of academics have constructed an archive to remember the Palestinian scholars murdered in the Gaza genocide. | Public Books - “We navigate the world by means of a tiny ocean enclosed within our heads”: A psychoanalytic history of the sea. | Pioneer Works - Francesca Giangiulio considers Anthony Bourdain’s recently reissued crime novels. | Salon - Kali Wallace explores how a trashy pulp novel became classic poetic horror movie Eyes Without a Face. | Reactor - Jordan Crane talks to Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez about 45 years of drawing and writing. | The Comics Journal - Lessons learned from the letters of Harold Bloom. | Los Angeles Review of Books Article continues after advertisement