Lit Hub Daily: October 29, 2021

• The literary film and TV you should stream in November features 90s Keanu, a Game of Thrones competitor, Passing, and more. | Lit Hub Film & TV

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• Pamela Paul muses on life before the internet, back when mornings weren’t spent “scrolling through the thoughts and thoughtlessness of 1,500 people while still on the toilet.” Bless. | Lit Hub Tech

• “And the world goes by, / all the worlds, each more beautiful than the last.” Read a poem from Louise Glück’s new collection. | Lit Hub Poetry

• Therapists need good books, too. Chaya Bhuvaneswar talks to mental health professionals about what they’ve been reading through the many crises of the moment. | Lit Hub

• After yet another prolonged, devastating wildfire season in the American west, Megan Marshall wonders if “Thoreau’s message of inward-seeking” still holds up. | Lit Hub Climate Change

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• “It was only when I put down the grief books and picked up the horror again that I found what I was looking for—not an escape from my grief, but a way to dive deeper into it.” Gus Moreno on the power of sitting in dread. | Lit Hub

• Where the ghost deer sleep: Andrew Siegrist seeks everyday folklore. | Lit Hub

• Tyler Malone considers psychoanalysis in horror movies and the human desire to understand evil. | Lit Hub Criticism

• Tom Cox on five tales of ordinary people in which “something a little uncanny or eerie also happens to be going on.” | CrimeReads

• New titles by Jonathan Franzen, Elizabeth Strout, John le Carré, Rebecca Solnit, and David Sedaris all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Month. | Book Marks

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• Farah Jasmine Griffin unpacks how banning Beloved sanitizes racism and our country’s legacy of white supremacy. | Washington Post

• “It sometimes seems as if contemporary people are determined to eradicate ghosts.” Sandra Newman on our hostility to the haunted. | Catapult

• Kelly Jensen discusses how critical race theory is the new Satanic Panic in right-wing politics. | Book Riot

• “After years of constant re-reading and doing my own dating, my jealousy of Daisy dissipated and turned into something that resembled sympathy.” An ode to the toxic love story of The Great Gatsby. | Autostraddle

• Remembering the legacy of The Green Book and the importance of feeling freedom behind the wheel. | AFAR

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• How sensationalist crime stories thwarted police reform in Victorian England. | JSTOR 

• “The fact that caring for a household under capitalism often is an expression of loving desire, while at the same time being life-choking work, is precisely the problem.” Sophie Lewis considers narratives of domestic labor. | Boston Review

Also on Lit Hub: Aimee Parkison on ghostly taboos • A poem by Rickey Laurentiis • Read from Judith Freeman’s latest novel, MacArthur Park