{"id":11276,"date":"2026-08-14T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/lit-hub-daily-august-14-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:30:00","slug":"lit-hub-daily-august-14-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/lit-hub-daily-august-14-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Lit Hub Daily: August 14, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><h2>THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"featured-img-container\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"caption\"> TODAY: In 1969, Leonard Woolf dies. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWe were trapped within a single moment: always in danger, always waiting, and always struggling to survive.\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/before-we-are-erased-why-i-founded-gaza-publications-during-the-genocide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Husam Maarouf on why he founded Gaza Publications.<\/a>\u200b| Lit Hub<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/how-octavia-butler-encouraged-me-to-write-my-novel\/\">How following Octavia Butler\u2019s advice<\/a> guided <span class=\"byline\">Clarence A. Haynes<\/span> to write a novel. | Lit Hub <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/craftandcriticism\/craft-and-advice\/\">Craft<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Casey Michel explores <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/inside-the-rise-of-americas-oligarch-class-and-what-it-means-for-all-of-us\/\">the decline of American democracy<\/a> (and the rise of the oligarch class). | Lit Hub <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/newsandculture\/politics\/\">Politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/where-does-the-will-to-live-come-from-in-humans-and-nonhumans-alike\/\">On the roots of agency<\/a>, for humans and other creatures alike: \u201cFor us humans, who are so sensitive to estimations of authority and might, a lot hangs on whether we believe another can take an active role in affecting something.\u201d | Lit Hub <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/newsandculture\/nature\/page\/2\/\">Nature<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cAmong all the far-off places, and all the deserted and unknown cities, among all the lawless, godless regions, the Guayr\u00e1 was an oasis.\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/the-depopulation\/\">Read from Marina Closs\u2019s novel <em>The Depopulation<\/em><\/a>, translated by Thomas Bunstead. | Lit Hub <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/fictionandpoetry\/from-the-novel\/\">Fiction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/o\/MiXA1\/https:\/\/defector.com\/author\/david-hollingshead\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">David Hollingshead<\/a> breaks down the war <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/defector.com\/humanists-have-done-nothing-wrong\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">between humanists and the humanities<\/a>. | Defector<\/li>\n<li>On luxury and seduction in a new English translation of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asymptotejournal.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/13\/to-seduce-or-be-seduced-a-review-of-the-three-cornered-hat-by-pedro-antonio-de-alarcon\/\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro Antonio de Alarc\u00f3n\u2019s <i>The Three-Cornered Hat<\/i><\/a>. | Asymptote<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Brogden examines the role of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.full-stop.net\/2026\/08\/13\/features\/elizabeth-brogden\/contents-discontents-heterotopic-literature-in-the-age-of-distraction\/\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">heterotopic literature in the era of content creation.<\/a> | Full Stop<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/goliath-grouper-florida-industrial-spill-cerebrocentrism-tampa\/\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">What can we learn from a dead goliath grouper? <\/a>\u201cThe equation of thought with abstraction, starting with Descartes\u2019s cogito and continuing to our current data-heavy abstracted moment, rejects what we know in our bones and feel in our gut.\u201d | Los Angeles Review of Books<\/li>\n<li>Sam Huber considers the late feminist theorist <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/online\/2026\/08\/13\/the-silent-art-kate-millett\/\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Millet\u2019s parallel career as a sculptor<\/a>. | New York Review of Books<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Article continues after advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/lit-hub-daily-august-14-2026\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1969, Leonard Woolf dies. \u201cWe were trapped within a single moment: always in danger, always waiting, and always struggling to survive.\u201d Husam Maarouf on why he founded Gaza Publications.\u200b| Lit Hub How following Octavia Butler\u2019s advice guided Clarence A. 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