Lit Hub Daily: November 11, 2026

THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

TODAY: In 1922, Kurt Vonnegut is born.

Zachary Fletcher interviews former New York Times romance columnist Olivia Waite about being fired and the current state of romance criticism. | Lit Hub In Conversation
Are we living in a simulation? Is AI a philosophical zombie? Catherine Heymans considers these and other questions of the multiverse. | Lit Hub Science
Stuart Gibbs recommends books about World War II for young readers, including titles by Alan Gratz, Jennifer Nielsen, and Gordan Korman. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
The competition is heating up! Voting is open in the third round of our bracket to determine the Best Literary TV Adaptations of All Time. | Lit Hub
Nancy Isenberg chronicles the history of American nepo babies: “Do they really work twice as hard? The Camelot magic had sprinkled fairy dust over the eyes of journalists.” | Lit Hub History
On the beauty and liminality of writing from flyover country. | Lit Hub Craft
Meet Hanna Diab, the forgotten Syrian adventurer behind Aladdin and other stories. | Lit Hub History
David Conrad-Pérez recommends books about the birth of modern New York by Mike Wallace, James Baldwin, Eric Foner and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
“There’s nothing mysterious about my sister. She wasn’t hard to find. It’s just I’d never tried.” Read from Siân Hughes’s new novel, No Such Thing as Monday. | Lit Hub Fiction
Brendan Flaherty explores mole men and the strangeness of the everyday. | CrimeReads
“I don’t believe that relentlessly collecting that data, documenting that data, publishing the data is sufficient to overturn the systems that we have.” Mona Chalabi talks to Naomi Elias about income inequality and the power—and limitations—of numbers. | The Nation
How peer production (aka volunteer work) built the internet. | The MIT Press Review
On loss, literature and the necessity of the humanities. | JSTOR Daily
Noelle Mateer goes to France’s biggest festival celebrating American literature. | The Paris Review
Rebecca Liu shares lessons learned while judging this year’s Booker Prize. | The Guardian