This special October episode features a ghost story from William Maxwell's novel The Château. It's set in a harsh, old-fashioned classroom where kids recite their lessons, and its haunting force is a shapeshifting memory double—very much in our “A Lovely Wallpaper” wheelhouse.

Guest reader: Christine Schutt, author of Pure Hollywood, Prosperous Friends, All Souls, and several more.

No poem, no interview this time—just understated, literary thrills and chills!