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Lit Hub Weekly: April 20 – 24, 2026

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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 2006,   journalist , author,  and activist Jane Jacobs dies.   Caroline Bicks unearths the word “clitter” and other wild discoveries while reading the first draft of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary . | Lit Hub Criticism “Possibly the greatest lesson I got from the zine is that writing is about community.” How zines taught Jeff Miller to be a novelist. | Lit Hub Craft Why do we hate the word moist ? Science may actually have an answer. | Lit Hub History Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff investigate how (and when) Elon Musk took his hard turn to the right . | Lit Hub Politics “If we can’t have the nineties back, we can build a life of things that might feel transportative.” Hanif Abdurraqib considers our nostalgic longing for inconvenience . | The New Yorker Tim Requarth dives into the AI writing panic —and wonders if it obscures a larger issue. | Slate What happens when newsrooms get into the prediction market game .…

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