TODAY: In 1811, Jane Austen’sSense and Sensibilityis published. How AI is dragging us towards a futurethat rips the body out of body horror. | Lit HubTechnologyOctober’s best book covers aren’t spooky, but it’s scary how much we love them. | Lit HubDesignLiz DiGregorio recommends perfectly eerie poems for Halloweenby Louise Glück, Victoria Chang, and more. | Lit HubReading Lists From PsychotoChristine, a highway is something “altogether different when they appear in the horror genre: therethey expose themselves as highways to hell.” | Lit HubFilmOn undead labor andthe uncanny digital afterlife of Salvador Dalí: “Dalí’s body has not been dragged from the grave, but a version of him has been put to work, his likeness shaped and molded to fit the desires of another.” | Lit HubTechnologyBarbara Kingsolver’sPartita, Sarah Perry’sDeath of an Ordinary Man, Yiyun Li’sMusic Against the Night, and Tracy Daugherty’sCormac McCarthy: A Lifeall feature among October’s best reviewed books. |Book MarksWhy writers should havesympathy for ghosts. | Lit HubCraftThe literary film and TV you need to streamin November includes highly anticipated spinoffs and coming of age classics. | Lit HubFilmThese 17 books by Sara Levine, George Packer, and moreare arriving in paperback this month. | Lit HubReading Lists“My writing career began unexpectedly, with a terrible and surprising patient death.”How writing is like nursing. | Lit HubCraftIn praise of Blade Runner, a film that “asks the questions we might ask ourselves in the middle of the night.” | Lit HubFilm“We held the launch party for issue two, a rush job if there ever was one, at Scrublands, a bookstore-gallery-wine bar in the French Cleat District.” Read from Ben Lasman’s new novel, Magazine. | Lit HubFiction“I, too, am tempted by the desire to foist a narrative on the game. Isn’t that why I rooted for the Mets to lose?”Ben Cosman on Robert Coover and the impossibility of the baseball novel. | The PointAndie Eisen talks to some ofthe women taking the reins of the death industry. | Los Angeles Review of Books“The finance sector is in love with the idea of a technology where money can be substituted for expertise.”Cory Doctorow on AI. | JacobinThis 19th-century death trainwill haunt you all Halloween weekend. | JSTOR DailyAlessandra Schade remembersgrowing up next door to R.L. Stein. | The New York TimesJesse Wright exploresthe ghosts of Route 66 in the age of AI. | Current Affairs