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The social media accounts linked to from Lit Hub are: • Facebook • Instagram • TikTok • YouTube • Threads • Bluesky • Mastodon Besides social media accounts, lithub_ has populated their site with: • Get a Lit Hub Hat! • 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 • The Best Book Covers of the Last Decade • Letters From Minnesota • Two stories about paranoia for our conspiratorial moment. • Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is a Deranged, Half-Assed Bodice-Ripper That Entirely Misses the Point • The 12 Best Book Covers of February • Introducing Dirt Books • A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022 • Jack Kerouac’s Record-Breaking Manuscripts • The 13 Best Book Covers of March • 10 Great New Children’s Books Out in April 2026 • Seven Poetry Books to Read This April • April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books • 23 New Paperbacks Out This April • ‘Backrooms’ and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic | The MIT Press Reader • 25 Gifts for Mothers (Who Are Also Writers) • The 11 Best Book Covers of April • New Books for May • The Surprising Similarities Between the Kardashians and WWE • Lucy Sante Recommends Five Books About Memory • Best of the Best Books Reading Challenge! • 19 Novels You Need to Read This Summer • 50 Great Classic Novels Under 200 Pages • The 13 Best Book Covers of May • New Poetry, SFF, and Children’s Lit in June • The Sound of Imminence: Ruth Ozeki in Praise of the Typewriter • 50 of the Greatest Summer Novels of All Time • The Ultimate Summer 2026 Reading List • When George Sand Hit the Town in Men’s Clothes • What the New York Times Missed: 71 More of the Best Books of the 21st Century • Inside the Wild World of Roman Romance Novels • Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026, Part Two • The 13 Best Book Covers of June • Why Can’t the Public Sector Pick Up Our Trash? • How Jane Austen Blew a Hole Through the Romance Genre She Created • A Room of Her Own: What Women Writers Sacrifice to Pursue Their Passion • 70 Great Contemporary Novels Under 200 Pages • Sigrid Nunez Thinks Every Writer Should Connect to Their Inner Child • Sigrid Nunez, Julie Buntin, Pamela Colloff, and more: 20 new books out today! • Welcome to Toronto, World Capital of the Urban Raccoon • An incomplete list of people reading The Catcher in the Rye in movies. • A Smart Sisterly Sidekick: What Phoebe Represents to Holden Caulfield • The First Reviews of The Catcher in the Rye • A Dialogue With the Facts: On Writing Literary Biography in a Post-Truth Age • A Chorus of Poets: On the Possible Existence of Multiple Homers • Why We Need More Woman-Centric Retellings of The Odyssey • Nostos, or Homecoming: Why I Keep Returning to the Odyssey • Why Writing Feels So Hard (and How to Make it Easier) • On Alt Text Image Description as Literary Practice • How Medical Racism Impacted the Work of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston • For Marx, Capitalism Was Always Going to Destroy the Environment • Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women • On Reckoning With the Literary World’s Unacknowledged Class System • What Barriers Do Women in Science Face When Trying to Publish? • The Time Johnny Cash Almost Started a Prison Riot at San Quentin • What I Learned from a Close Read of All of Colson Whitehead’s Work • Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera‘s Blue House in Coyoacán Was a Refuge for Leon Trotsky… Until It Wasn‘t • The Tragedy of Loving Sylvia Plath • What Is the Difference Between Exile and Exiles? • How Christian Europe Learned to Fear the Forest—and the Beasts Within • The 13 Best Book Covers of July • Reckoning with the Long Literary Tradition of Age-Gap Relationships • 10 Great New Children’s Books Out in August 2026 • Forgotten Landmines: 7 New Poetry Collections to Read This August • Sea Monster Villages and Soul Traders: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books • The City With a Stroller: Why Babies (and Mothers) Are the Best Flâneurs • Rumpelstiltskin is My Unlikely Writing Companion • On the Poetics of Canine Narration • Why My 85-Year-Old Friend Has Devoted the Last Years of Her Life to Reading the Ancient Classics • Encountering the Ghost of Ted Hughes in His Childhood Home • It’s Ok to Judge a Book By Its Cover (It’s Impossible Not To) • How JD Salinger’s Experience of WWII Suffused All of His Writing, Even Catcher in the Rye • For 50 Years the Major Oil Companies Have Known They’re Destroying the Planet • The Toxic Appeal of “Big-Reveal” Content on Social Media • Téa Obreht on Writing a Layered, Intertextual Tale of the American West • To Write As If No One Will See What You’ve Written: Why the Short Story Won’t Go Away • What Happens When You Mail 30 Writers Free Lit Mags? • From Marquis de Sade to Grand Theft Auto, a Brief History of Depravity • The 60 Greatest Coming-of-Age Novels • Are Dating Apps the Last, Great Hope For the American Literary Journal? • After Six Decades and Thirty Novels Jodi Picoult Was Missing One Thing: A Tattoo • Everything But the Burden: Greg Tate, John Henryism, and the Cost of Solidarity • On Grief and Growing Up in Buffy the Vampire Slayer • Why I Hiked the Appalachian Trail Twice—30 Years Apart • How Ursula K. Le Guin Channeled Her Environmentalism Into Fiction • How Accusations Against Black Academics Point to the Real End of “Woke 1.0” • In Praise of “Wordy, Old Prose.” (Or, F*ck Your AI Reading Buddy) • How Talking About Death Helps Us Live a Fuller Life • A Literary Haunting: What the Ghost of Sylvia Plath Taught Me About Grief • Steven Thrasher on the Killing of Jason Arday • Data Centers: The Latest Thing to Destroy Beautiful West Virginia • Long Live Dolly Parton, Giver of Books • The Letter Doula: How to Help a Life Arrive on the Page • An Ode to the Gleeful Terror of Tim Curry’s Pennywise • What It Means to Love Elliott Smith • Antiuniverses, Deepfakes, and Clone Children: September’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books • 10 Great New Children’s Books Out in September 2026 • Motherships, Haunted Mirrors, and Heritances: September Poetry Releases • Abdelrahman ElGendy on Writing From Inside a Prison Cell • The Latest Literary Scam: Emailing the Long-Dead Legends of 20th-Century Literature • Lit Hub Homepage • The Lit Hub Podcast • Lit Hub Bookshop • Lit Hub’s 43 Favorite Books of 2025 • Stravinsky in the Desert: Playing Piano Under Big West Texas Skies • ‎Lit Hub Letterboxd • The 65 Best Campus Novels from the Last 100 Years • Support Lit Hub! • What Was Literary Twitter? The Champion • The 29 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2025 • Marlon James on (Finally) Writing a Novel That Draws From His Life • The 11 Best Book Covers of August • Here’s What to Read Once You Get Through Weird Girl Lit 101 • 10 Literary Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels That Offer Hope for the Future • 34 Books You Need to Read This Fall • Orlando Reade on the Writer of Erotic Harry Potter Fan Fiction Who Messaged First • Subscribe to Our Newsletters! • The 173 Best Book Covers of 2025 • Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026 • Meet the 2025 National Book Award Finalists • The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year • Lit Hub Reading Lists • 58 Books You Need to Read • The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2025 • Lit Hub Tumblr • The 11 Best Book Covers of October • The 14 Best Book Covers of September • The 14 Best Book Covers of August • Lit Hub Daily: August 18, 2025 • How Working at a Grocery Store Helped Me Become a Better Writer • What the defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting means for Viewers Like You. • The 11 Best Book Covers of July • “If God Were Like Chekhov, I Would Be Consoled.”On the Privileges of Misery • What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT • “Let Me Tell You What I Love.” Remembering Fanny Howe • How Sex and the City Exemplifies Late 20th-Century Feminist Despair • A Writer For Our Time: Why John le Carré’s Work Remains More Essential Than Ever • The Ultimate Summer 2025 Reading List • Beyond Teen Fiction: Six High School Novels for Adult Readers • The 10 Best Book Covers of May • Joan Didion Giveaway • 22 Novels You Need to Read This Summer • Face Pies, Holiday Turkeys, Finger-Feeding Critics: The Five Best Food Scenes in Literature • “Writing is Fighting:” Inside Toni Morrison’s Literary Collaboration With Muhammad Ali • On Mrs. Dalloway • Kids Are Actually Really Funny, Wise, Weird, and Philosophical • The 15 Best Book Covers of April • 75 Years Ago, The Martian Chronicles Legitimized Science Fiction • For this Indie Bookstore Day, here are odes to ten of our favorite bookstores. • Something Good in the World: Let’s Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day This Weekend • Here are some new literary portmanteaus to use alongside romantasy and cli-fi. • If I Was a Rich Girl, I’d Have All the Cover in the World: The Real Mean Girls of Classic Literature • Watch the book trailer for Sophy Roberts’s bestselling A Training School for Elephants. • Happy Birthday, Lit Hub, You’re Ten Years Old • On My Grandfather’s Novel: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby at 100 • My Name is Kyle Seibel. So Obviously I Went to Kyle Fest in Kyle, Texas. • These are the things that are getting us through this week. • A Columbia University Professor Speaks Out Against the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil • The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: The Final Showdown • The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: The Fearsome 4 • The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: The Hateful 8 • The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: The Not-So-Sweet 16 • The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: Round of 32 Assholes • The Best Villains in Literature Bracket: Round 1 • The US Has a Journalism Crisis: Here’s Why Writers Are Leaving the Profession in Droves • Omar El Akkad on Genocide, Complicit Liberals, and the Terrible Wrath of the West • Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities • In Purging Language About Trans People, Donald Trump and Elon Musk Are Trying to Purge the People Themselves • A Fantasy of Domesticity: Why We’re Drawn to the False Promise of the Tradwife • Sweet (But Not Too Sweet): 6 Essential Literary Love Stories • This Week on the Lit Hub Podcast: Reading All of Patrick O’Brian • What Publishing Can Do About Trump: Preserve the Independence of Our Bookstores and Libraries • The 14 Best Book Covers of January • Lila Shapiro on the Allegations Against Neil Gaiman • Trump 2.0: What the Book World Should Do Now • A Way of Living: On Direct Action and Survival Work in the Face of American Fascism • The How-Tos and DOs and DON’Ts of Mutual Aid • The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism • Our Most Anticipated Books in 2025