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Ray Nayler compiles an annotated bibliography of octopus videos that helped him write his novel (and are very fun to watch). | Lit Hub Nature
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Stephen King pens an ode to Maine cuisine—plus, a recipe for Cujo-inspired French toast casserole. | Lit Hub Food
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Elizabeth McCracken rediscovers the first message she ever inscribed (in the first edition of her first book). | Lit Hub Memoir
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Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan on learning from each other’s processes—and becoming friends—while co-writing a novel. | Lit Hub
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Kelcey Ervick reflects on being a goalkeeper—like Nabokov and Camus—who wanted to be a writer. | Lit Hub Sports
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Warnings from Wuhan: How virologists in China worked to tell the world about COVID-19. | Lit Hub Science
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“Writing didn’t enter my mind, and that, in part, was the point of the schedule.” Ryan Lee Wong on living in a monastery during the pandemic. | Lit Hub
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The best new crime novels, mysteries, and thrillers of October. | CrimeReads
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“Everything that’s in the book has its roots in something that’s happened.” Celeste Ng on her new novel and the power of art. | NPR
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Alex Shephard shares his annual wild speculations on who will win the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. | The New Republic
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“The inability to write was agonizing, and I remained incapable of talking about it with anyone in my life. In January, 2016, I e-mailed Jeb again.” Adam Dalva on his unlikely correspondence with Jeb Bush. | The New Yorker
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Mariana Enríquez on horror and complicity: “Maybe I turn up the volume to 11 because of the genre I like to work in, but the genre puts a light on the real horror that gets lost.” | The Guardian
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What comes after #NameTheTranslator? | Words Without Borders
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Richard Joseph asks: “Where is Donna Tartt in our collective account of contemporary literature?” | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Meet the booksellers of Little District Books, a queer-owned bookstore “where community building forms the backbone of the shop.” | The GW Hatchet
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Also on Lit Hub: An illustrated (incomplete) list of New York City’s best bookstore storefronts • A reading list of fiercely political women • Read from Rodrigo Blanco Calderón’s newly translated collection, Sacrifices (tr. Thomas Bunstead)
