Lit Hub Daily: August 7, 2026

Should you judge a book by its cover? Probably! Ed Simon looks at the history of book cover trends. | Lit Hub Design James Spooner remembers finding community and belonging in New York’s Black punk...

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All That Is Left of Life

When Maresciallo Tommaso Nardulli arrived on the scene at around eight, Signora Sattaflora had Betta Ansaldo covered with a white embroidered linen sheet from the dowry she had prepared over the...

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Whyteface

Once upon a time, but not so long ago, there was a woman who disobeyed her father by loving another man. The hot slap of her rebellion was heightened by the gulf in the social positions of the two men

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Awake Awake

All is recollection save for the slender membrane of now. Every present thought, every present feeling, collides with a league of their familial ghosts. And if our lives in this moment seem flimsy,...

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