Lit Hub Daily: October 13, 2023

• What does playing the devil incarnate do to a young girl? Marlena Williams looks at Linda Blair’s infamous role The Exorcist. | Lit Hub Film and TV
• “Reading a book aloud, especially to a child, means getting on that frigate together, being passengers in the same car, not just with a character with whom we might feel like kindred spirits, but with each other.” Amanda Parrish Morgan on the road to Avonlea with her daughter. | Lit Hub Travel
• “As we live in such a hateful, violent world barreling toward its own destruction, what else has the capacity to speak to us but horror?” Dorothy Lasky on the power of horror. | Lit Hub Film and TV
• “Has there ever been a more poetic description of immigration, its pull and push, its promise and its punishment? And does one ever stop carrying those splinters in one’s soul?” Thrity Umrigar on fitting in in America. | Lit Hub
• On the shared foundations between poetry and therapy. | Lit Hub Poetry
• The Indian government has charged Arundhati Roy with “offenses related to provocative speech and the promotion of enmity between different groups” over public comments she made 13 years ago about Kashmir. | The New York Times
• Steven Spielberg, David Zaslav, Liza Minnelli and Ava DuVernay and others pick the 100 best film books of all time. | Hollywood Reporter
• Read Myroslav Laiuk’s wartime poems, translated from Ukrainian by Ostap Kin and Kate Tsurkan. | The Dial
• H.M.A. Leow considers the question of “accuracy” in memoirs about genocide. | JSTOR Daily
• Oh look, another politician who didn’t pay attention in English class. | The New Republic

Also on Lit Hub: Nicola Griffith on writing immersive historical fiction • On the profound impact of wildfires on California’s black bear population