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“We were alive and life was us.” On Ken Kesey’s mission to get LSD to the people. | Lit Hub
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“From an old book filters up a whiff of dissolution and conjuring.” Turns out, there’s a scientific reason we love to smell old books. | Lit Hub Science
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Read an excerpt from Sujit Sivasundaram’s Waves Across the South, winner of British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. | Lit Hub
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Claire Boyle and Julie Shapiro talk about creating an audiovisual McSweeney’s issue, and how considering accessibility issues brought a new dimension to the work. | Lit Hub
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Centering indigenous voices: Ọlájídé Salawu examines the colonial grounding of Nigeria’s literary industry. | Lit Hub
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“Having a kid just makes me want to be a better, happier person, and a big part of my self-care is expressing myself through writing.” Frances Badalamenti talks to Chloe Caldwell about her new novel, Salad Days. | Lit Hub
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Antonio Damasio explains why we are both “feeling creatures that think and thinking creatures that feel.” Lucky us! | Lit Hub Science
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Chronicles of W. G. Sebald, Billy Porter, and Oscar Wilde all feature among the best reviewed memoirs and biographies of the month. | Book Marks
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Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu, Josh Malerman, Grady Hendrix and others discuss horror fiction in the time of Covid. | CrimeReads
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Tacky author Rax King talks Giovanni’s Room, A Little Life, and Susan Choi’s sex scenes. | Book Marks
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Sylvia Plath’s tarot cards recently sold at auction for £151,200—what does that reveal about the public’s fixation on the poet’s private life? | New Statesman
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On the invaluable importance of Goosebumps. | New York Times Magazine
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How Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned was adapted for the big screen. | Vulture
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Kevin Boyle discusses the political and cultural landscape in America in the 1960s. | Los Angeles Times
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Was René Descartes a victim of “skull blasting”? A (spooky) investigation. | Atlas Obscura
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Victoria Chang and Dean Rader discuss new works of poetry by Tracy K. Smith and Arthur Sze. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Brian Logan speaks to comedians about turning their stage work into books. | The Guardian
Also on Lit Hub: Nathaniel Ian Miller on writing a book for dog people • The 10 best book covers of October • Read from Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s debut novel, The House of Rust
