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Lit Hub Daily: May 8, 2026

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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1899, The Irish Literary Theater in Dublin produced its first play, The Countess Cathleen by William Butler Yeats.   Irene Zabytko recounts reimagining The Canterbury Tales in post-Soviet Ukraine. | Lit Hub Craft What our Google searches reveal about humanity and grief. | Lit Hub Technology Think it’s hard to write stories for adults? Try writing stories for children . | Lit Hub Craft “Culturally, the word is synonymous with ugly, not just for the ways lesbians defy traditional gender roles in the popular imagination but for their disinclination toward and unavailability to men.” On lesbian identity and the gendered politics of ugliness . | Lit Hub Memoir John Lanchester’s  Look What You Made Me Do , Elizabeth Strout’s  The Things We Never Say , and Siri Hustvedt’s  Ghost Stories  all feature among  the best reviewed books of the week . |  Book Marks Why every writer should have some kind of trick : “They break up logjams.…

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