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“The dead travel fast and sometimes they travel far.” Silvia Garcia-Moreno traces the long genealogy of the vampire. | Lit Hub Criticism
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How Langston Hughes used his Chicago Defender columns to cultivate a curious interest: ghosts. | Lit Hub History
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What can horror films teach us about poetry? | Lit Hub Poetry
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The terror of learning: On the classroom scene as a horror trope. | Lit Hub Film
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Danielle Trussoni asks four thriller writers—David Baldacci, Janelle Brown, Jean Kwok, and Ivy Pochoda—what they’re really afraid of. | Lit Hub
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“Monsters are beautiful—this was my truth.” Adrian Van Young on the allure of literary monsters. | Lit Hub
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Treat yourself with 22 new books out today. | The Hub
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“I was watching the private work of a writer, which is also that of a reader. It was part of the commitment to figuring out what made a good sentence: an interdependence between form and feeling.” Wyatt Mason profiles Sigrid Nunez. | New York Times Magazine
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E. Tammy Kim considers the enigmatic science fiction of Djuna. | The Nation
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“My friend Sungja says that we adoptees live in history’s margins and are able to move in the spaces that border an experience.” Jennifer Kwon Dobbs and Lee Herrick have coedited a portfolio of Asian adoptee diaspora writing. | AGNI
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Jeanette Winterson talks to Katy Waldman about queer ghosts, AI, and seeking imaginative responses to the world. | The New Yorker
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At long last, cookbooks are acknowledging the realities of dishwashing. | Slate
Also on Lit Hub: The most frightening animals in fiction • A reading list for modern witches • Read a story from Jeanette Winterson’s latest collection, Night Side of the River
