Lit Hub Daily: August 26, 2026

Literary Hub's daily roundup for August twenty-sixth leads with word that Dolly Parton has died at eighty, noting her Imagination Library program has distributed more than two hundred million free books to children. The digest also flags a piece on how America has used radio and podcasts to mythologize itself across two hundred fifty years, plus a Jacobin essay asking who should really own artificial intelligence. As Literary Hub tells it, the day's list rounds out with literary history, marking the nineteen-fourteen birth of author Julio Cortázar.

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