Good evening readers. Here's your round-up of today's must-read literary news, commentary and fiction.

Top Ten Nasty Women in Literature: Trump's "nasty woman" insult calls for a celebration of our favorite literary anti-heroines LSP
Scaredy-cat bookshelf: 5 Halloween-themed books to read if you can't handle the horror Book Riot
Ghostland: what haunted houses and spooky stories reveal about American history TIME
An interview with Irenosen Okojie: the Betty Trask Award winner discusses life, writing and her new collection of short stories, Speak Gigantular 3AM Magazine
Elena Ferrante's chilling children's book: a sneak peak at illustrator's Mara Cerri's drawings in The Beach at Night, newly published in English Huffington Post
Running in the wake: a runner's audiobook soundtrack keeps up his pace as he rediscovers literature, and himself, along the way The Millions
"Creating a new language as a form of silence": poet Cynthia Cruz in conversation about her two upcoming books Divedapper
The Ephemerides: an interview with the woman behind a Twitter bot's "poems from outer space" Lenny Letter

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