LitHub Daily: October 31, 2016

TODAY: In 2008, Louis “Studs” Terkel, historian and broadcaster who received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War, dies. 

• 16 books to read this November. | Literary Hub
• Fujimori Nakamura: I write dark stories because I am dark. | Literary Hub
• Why we love to be haunted: on what our ghosts are really trying to tell us. | Literary Hub
• Colin Dickey on the rise of the cities of the dead. | Literary Hub
• On the horror of language and the horror of Trump: Emily Harnett draws a line from The Shining to this endless election.  | Literary Hub
• I feel dance has something to tell me about what I do: Zadie Smith offers dance lessons for writers. | The Guardian
• “Was it also different for the animals, under communism and under capitalism?” Rivka Galchen and Yoko Tawada visit the Berlin Zoo, the source of inspiration for Memoirs of a Polar Bear. | T Magazine
• The only general-interest bookstore in the Bronx, “home to 1.5 million people, two hundred thousand public-school students, [and] eleven colleges and universities,” will close by the end of the year. | The New Yorker
• There was so much more to the ’80s than the cartoon version I’d been regurgitating: Six writers on recreating the ever-popular decade. | Vulture
• “It wasn’t Scandinavian noir; it was Scandinavian… something else.” On the runaway success of Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove. | The New York Times
• “I’m describing the world I lived in while asleep, that felt just as real, just as emotional and vibrant and frightening as the world I lived in during the day.” An interview with Wendy C. Ortiz. | Electric Literature
• A parallel-text English and Arabic edition of Instructions Within, the poetry collection that resulted in Ashraf Fayadh’s arrest and (later overturned) death sentence, will be published in November. | Publishers Weekly
• “It shouldn’t be just straight white kids like how it has been for the past hundreds of years.” On the current “golden age” of gay young adult fiction. | Broadly

Also on Literary Hub: Interview with a bookstore: Twelve overlooked books to read for Halloween · Shadows were rising: “A Natural History of Autumn” by Jeffery Ford, from his collection A Natural History of Hell

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