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Limes for Amy March: Jean Huang considers the evolving literary and cultural history of citrus. | Lit Hub History
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“For the dutiful writer, a notebook is the best kind of camera.” Roy Peter Clark’s advice for writing cinematically. | Lit Hub Craft
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The literary film and TV you should stream in October features a remake of a legendarily bad adaptation, Claudia Llosa’s take on Samanta Scweblin’s Fever Dream, and the best Mr. Darcy of all time. | Lit Hub Film & TV
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Indie booksellers recommend their favorite new titles from indie presses this September and October. | Lit Hub
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Bruce Jones traces how the Zanzibari coast became famous… for modern-day pirates. | Lit Hub
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Fire Lyte recommends witchy books for spooky season. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You, Colson Whitehead’s Harlem Shuffle, and Lauren Groff’s Matrix all feature among the best reviewed books of the month. | Book Marks
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Celia Mattson recommends 31 horror films about writing, reading, and the business of books. | CrimeReads
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“If characters are being created for illustrative purposes or representative purposes, you’re kind of fucked.” Jonathan Franzen and Merve Emre in conversation. | Vulture
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On the double standards imposed upon creators of color and the privilege of mediocrity, which is “is reserved for the few, and those mostly white, male, and straight.” | T Magazine
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Tarana Burke, founder of the Me Too movement, discusses her new memoir and finding recognition in Maya Angelou. | NPR
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An audiovisual translator discusses the process of creating subtitles and dubs for TV and films. | Zócalo Public Square
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Why Banned Books Week should include conversations about prison censorship. | The Mary Sue
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Jared A. Loggins and Andrew J. Douglas on Black scholarship and why “structural racism and capitalist imperialism are everywhere, including the institutional spaces intended to nurture their critique.” | Boston Review
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Jaime Herndon asks what makes up the children’s canon of literature. | Book Riot
Also on Lit Hub: The theory of (artistic) relativity, illustrated • A poem by Ana Castillo (tr. Sara Solaimani with Ana Castillo) • Read from adrienne maree brown’s debut novella, Grievers
