Lit Hub Daily: October 1, 2018

• October picks: the 21 books Lit Hub contributors are looking forward to reading in this, the spookiest month.| Lit Hub
• On the literary heroes of teen Benjamin Franklin, from Socrates to The Spectator. | Lit Hub
• Yeah, but when are they going to adapt the sad baby shoes story… From All About Eve to Secretary, 31 movies based on short stories. | Lit Hub
• Autonomous everything: from surgical robots to computerized weapons, algorithms are taking over our world. | Lit Hub
• Nicole Im on suicidal sharks and self-harm, from the new issue of Freeman’s. | Lit Hub
• “I was astounded that a sheriff and his wife could set up housekeeping only steps away from a grim row of jail cells populated with petty criminals, felons and murderers.” On the mom and pop jails of small town America. | CrimeReads
• Award-winning poet and Cave Canem Executive Director Nicole Sealey on why she read a poetry book every day for a month. | Book Marks
• “It’s downright strange that intelligent women would call a book that disposes of its protagonists’ dreams in order to settle them into lives darning socks “required reading” for young girls today.” Reconsidering Little Women as a “feminist” novel. | Vulture
• Anna Leahy on three new books by Ada Limón, Sonya Huber, and Sandra Gail Lambert that “counter traditional narratives that equate illness with weakness and women with hysteria.” | BuzzFeed Reader
• “Speaking of any of this is a transgression.” Leonard Cohen’s son on his father’s final poems. | The Guardian
• “It’s my personal library, in my hand, for that moment.” Kate Dries on re-discovering reading for pleasure, with the help of a free library app. | The Outline
• “When physicians care for their patients, they have a responsibility both to treat, and to heal. And poetry can help with healing.” A Harvard medical student on how doctors can use poetry—and understand it  as part of the Hippocratic Oath. | Nautilus
• “In essence, growth means you have to hate yourself before earning the right to love yourself”: the problem with makeover-as-narrative device. | Electric Lit

Also on Lit Hub: Ann Patchett on Sandra Boynton • Two poems by Ursula Le Guin • Read from Craving