{"id":5035,"date":"2026-06-16T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/lit-hub-daily-june-16-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:30:00","slug":"lit-hub-daily-june-16-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehotedit.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/lit-hub-daily-june-16-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Lit Hub Daily: June 16, 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: 1816, At the Villa Diodati, Lord Byron reads <em>Fantasmagoriana<\/em> to Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, then challenges each guest to write a ghost story, culminating in Mary Shelley writing the novel <em>Frankenstein<\/em>, John Polidori writing the short story \u201cThe Vampyre,\u201d and Byron writing the poem \u201cDarkness.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sophie Lewis examines <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/the-plight-of-heterofatalism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the phenomenon of heterofatalism<\/a>. | Lit Hub <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/newsandculture\/politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If you want a job as an astronaut, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/what-its-like-to-interview-for-the-job-of-astronaut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">you need to nail the interview<\/a>. | Lit Hub <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/newsandculture\/memoir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Memoir<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Erin Maglaque contextualizes her own experience of giving birth through <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/on-time-pain-and-the-labor-process-considering-the-history-of-midwifery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the history of midwifery<\/a>. | Lit Hub <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/newsandculture\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">History<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe most wonderful thing about attending someone else\u2019s wedding is that it\u2019s not my own.\u201d\u00a0On finding inspiration <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-bad-wedding-on-finding-inspiration-in-someone-elses-nuptials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">in someone else\u2019s nuptials<\/a>. | Lit Hub <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/craftandcriticism\/craft-and-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Craft<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/amitav-ghosh-joyce-carol-oates-isabel-waidner-and-more-20-new-books-out-today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The 20 new books out today<\/a> include titles by\u00a0Amitav Ghosh, Joyce Carol Oates, Isabel Waidner, and more. | Lit Hub <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/readinglists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Reading Lists<\/a><\/li>\n<li>How a family\u2019s history of struggle and survival in Jamaica <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/a-global-journey-understanding-centuries-of-black-exclusion-and-erasure-in-healthcare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">reveals centuries of Black exclusion in healthcare<\/a>. | Lit Hub <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/newsandculture\/health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Health<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lynda Schuster <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/resistance-against-apartheid-started-young\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">chronicles anti-apartheid resistance<\/a> in 1970s South Africa. | Lit Hub <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/newsandculture\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">History<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Greg Sarris, author of <em>The Last Human Bear<\/em>, talks to Jane Ciabattari about\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/greg-sarris-on-telling-the-stories-of-californias-native-communities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">telling the stories of California\u2019s indigenous communities<\/a>. | Lit Hub <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/craftandcriticism\/in-conversation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">In Conversation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cPicture this: an imposing, three-storey mansion on Calcutta\u2019s tree-lined upscale Southern Avenue.\u201d Read from\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/ghost-eye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Amitav Ghosh\u2019s new novel, <em>Ghost-Eye<\/em><\/a>. | Lit Hub <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/category\/fictionandpoetry\/from-the-novel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Fiction<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cTime restarted, at least for Pym\u2019s career as novelist, literally overnight.\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/sweet-dove-died-barbara-pym-reissue-victorian-appraisers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"external\">On Barbara Pym\u2019s <em>The Sweet Dove Died<\/em>.<\/a> | Los Angeles Review of Books<\/li>\n<li>Amy Goodman talks to John Nichols about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/amy-goodman-press-freedom-journalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"external\">the purpose of journalism and threats to freedom of the press<\/a>. | The Nation<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe whole lesbian world was around poets.\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/sarah-schulmans-four-decades-of-lesbian-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"external\">Lakshmi Rivera Amin interviews Sarah Schulman<\/a>. | Hyperallergic<\/li>\n<li>A literary and philosophical look <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2026\/06\/the-conscience-of-the-city-simon-pare-poupart-garbage-man-montreal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"external\">at being a garbage collector<\/a>. | Harper\u2019s<\/li>\n<li>Laura Seymour searches for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-early-modern-literature-can-teach-us-about-neurodivergence-283852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"external\">signs of neurodivergence in<\/a> early modern literature. | The Conversation<\/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-june-16-2026\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: 1816, At the Villa Diodati, Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, then challenges each guest to write a ghost story, culminating in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story \u201cThe Vampyre,\u201d and Byron writing the 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