At Locus, thoughts on Sin Blaché and Helen Macdonald’s Prophet.

The NYPL is hosting an event on the Equal Rights Amendment.

At Shondaland, talking books and art with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.

Shelf Awareness delved into Dwight Garner’s new book.

Phil Christman reviewed Will Hermes’s Lou Reed biography.

Chicago Review of Books recommended some notable November titles.

Electric Literature has a dispatch from the Masquerade of the Red Death.

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