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Must sex always mean death in horror movies? | Lit Hub Criticism
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THE ART OF THE HAND-SELL: Indie booksellers share their favorite spooky, eerie, and uncanny books for Halloween. | Lit Hub Halloween!
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“I personally have one, simple definition: a ghost is a manifestation of longing.” GennaRose Nethercott on the places ghost stories live. | Lit Hub
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Mia Florin-Sefton considers Barbarian, Jane Eyre, and how contemporary horror films are using the gothic to critique the politics of housing. | Lit Hub
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The foremothers of the occult: Meet the women behind ouija and tarot. | Lit Hub
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“Beauty became a narcotic.” Barbara Chase-Riboud remembers the whirlwind of life in the 1960s art world. | Lit Hub Memoir
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River Halen recommends books in which consciousness gets the role of protagonist. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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The month in literary listening: AudioFile’s best audiobooks of October. | Book Marks
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Jennifer Wilson explores the ghost stories of the formerly enslaved: “The enslaved turned to the supernatural realm in order to subvert the conditions of slavery itself.” | The New York Times
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“On a pickup basketball court, no matter how good you are, you ask to be let on a team, and into the game. Which is to say, you are a perpetual guest.” Ross Gay on John Edgar Wideman’s Hoop Roots. | Orion
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Revisiting Dubravka Ugrešić’s Thank You for Not Reading: “Her analysis of identity politics seems more relevant now than it did 20 years ago.” | LARB
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“He wanted to find new ways of looking at plants, to see them on their terms.” Natalie Lawrence on Darwin’s fascination with tracking the movement of plants. | The Public Domain Review
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Vi Khi Nao writes about the continued urgency of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee. | The Baffler
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Arrowsmith Press continues their series of conversations with Ukrainian writers with Borys and Liudmila Khersonsky talking to Marie Howe. | Arrowsmith Press
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Janell Ross reports from the “Books Unbanned” bus tour with scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw and other organizers. | TIME
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Patricia Thang recommends Japanese historical fiction. | Book Riot
Also on Lit Hub: The 10 best book covers of October • A reading list of pet deaths from E.B. Bartels • Read from Adam Soto’s story collection, Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep: Ghost Stories
