Lit Hub Daily: October 17, 2023

• “They are closing out the space for a Palestinian voice.” An open letter to the Frankfurt Book Fair in support of Adania Shibli, from more than 350 writers, editors, and publishers. | Lit Hub

• “I don’t have time to write about the soul. / There are bodies to count.” Read a poem by Hala Alyan. | Lit Hub Poetry

• Here’s how you can help people in Gaza right now. | The Hub

• 24 new books to keep you company. | The Hub

• Molly McGhee on unlearning the lessons of Dick Lit: “I had misread the authors I had surrounded myself with, I realized. Or maybe it was everyone else who misread them.” | Lit Hub Criticism

• Linguistic belonging: Ye Chun reflects on learning to write in English without disappearing. | Lit Hub

• Finding novelistic inspiration in museum wall labels. | Lit Hub Art

• John Lee Clark traces the nomenclatures applied to the DeafBlind community over the centuries, and the importance of letting people self-identify. | Lit Hub

• Sophie Gilbert ponders Wes Anderson’s Roald Dahl adaptations and what they tell viewers about both artists. | The Atlantic

• “The most difficult challenge in our lives is to face our contributions to the systems that reproduce inequality and consequential cycles of violence.” Sarah Schulman on the Hamas-Israel War. | New York Magazine

• It is a truth universally acknowledged that an AI bot in possession of the collected works of Jane Austen, must be in want of engagement on Instagram. | Futurism

• Florence Hazrat considers the exclamation point! | The Millions

• Canadian authors including Yann Martel, Alix Ohlin, and Heather O’Neill weigh in on their books being used to train AI. | The Walrus

Also on Lit Hub: The trap of fairytale victory endings in historical fiction • Read from the illustrated adaptation of Watership Down • Read from Tan Twan Eng’s latest novel, The House of Doors