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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

How Langston Hughes used his Chicago Defender columns to cultivate a curious interest: ghosts. | Lit Hub History

What can horror films teach us about poetry? | Lit Hub Poetry

The terror of learning: On the classroom scene as a horror trope. | Lit Hub Film

Danielle Trussoni asks four thriller writers—David Baldacci, Janelle Brown, Jean Kwok, and Ivy Pochoda—what they’re really afraid of. | Lit Hub

“Monsters are beautiful—this was my truth.” Adrian Van Young on the allure of literary monsters. | Lit Hub

Treat yourself with 22 new books out today. | The Hub

“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

E. Tammy Kim considers the enigmatic science fiction of Djuna. | The Nation

“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

Jeanette Winterson talks to Katy Waldman about queer ghosts, AI, and seeking imaginative responses to the world. | The New Yorker

At long last, cookbooks are acknowledging the realities of dishwashing. | Slate

Fans of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and Magpie Murders look no further. West Heart Kill is a classic locked-room mystery mixed with a fascinating primer on the form—and the most original mystery you'll read this year. 

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