Lit Hub Daily: June 22, 2026
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“She does not lack a sex. The clothes she wears are just one of the ways in which a woman choosing to play by her own rules can appear.” On the time George Sand got dapper. | Lit Hub Biography
TODAY: In 1898, Erich Maria Remarque is born.
“She does not lack a sex. The clothes she wears are just one of the ways in which a woman choosing to play by her own rules can appear.” On the time George Sand got dapper. | Lit Hub Biography
Why The Chicago Manual of Style should rethink its stance on the capitalization of “earth.”| Lit Hub Craft
How Barry Windsor-Smith reinvented Marvel’s Wolverine through visual storytelling. | Lit Hub Art
Ayşe Papatya Bucak explores the art of creating tension and surprise in a narrative (when your characters can’t do much). | Lit Hub Craft
Jamison Firestone remembers being an American in the Soviet Union on the morning communism fell.| Lit Hub History
Whether they’re running, flying, swimming, it’s cool when animals move fast. | Lit Hub Nature
Why following other artists’ routines might help you recover from a creative slump. | Lit Hub Craft
This week in literary history, Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” is published. | Lit Hub History
By the time I fell off the map, I had good reasons to be gone.” Read from Ariel Delgado Dixon’s new novel, Sourland. | Lit Hub Fiction
Maria Stepanova looks at Russia’s new generation of political exiles, translated by Sasha Dugdale. | Equator
The Onion’s rebooted InfoWars is incoming. | The Verge
Mona Sloane explores the similarities between the mean in culture and the mean in data as agentic AI systems become realities. | LARB
Ariana Reines and Eileen Myles talk about poetic kinship and life after death. | Broadcast
Some schools are hiring student content creators to make public education look cool. | The Nation