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Electric Literature
5 days ago
Rob Spillman on Finding Your Community, Joining the Conversation, and All Tomorrow’s Parties
Rob Spillman on Finding Your Community, Joining the Conversation, and All Tomorrow’s Parties
Rob Spillman’s childhood was split between Berlin and the States, between living with his father, a concert pianist, and his mother, an…
Deirdre Sugiuchi
3 days ago
That Thing: A True Story Based on The Exorcist
That Thing: A True Story Based on The Exorcist
by Adam Sturtevant
Electric Literature
Oct 6, 2015
The 200 Episode Club
The 200 Episode Club
Featuring J.Robert Lennon, Rob McCleary, Morgan Parker, and Téa Obreht
Electric Literature
Mar 18
Literary Witches
Literary Witches
A New Comic by Katy Horan and Taisia Kitaiskaia
Electric Literature
Mar 31
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Victor LaValle Talks About Horror Fiction, Imaginative Illiteracy, and Lovecraft’s Complicated…
Victor LaValle Talks About Horror Fiction, Imaginative Illiteracy, and Lovecraft’s Complicated…
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of talking to literary horror writer extraordinaire, Victor LaValle, for Vice about his new…
Lincoln Michel
2 days ago
Kevin Kramer Starts on Monday
Kevin Kramer Starts on Monday
By Debbie Graber, recommended by The Unnamed Press
Electric Literature
4 days ago
10 Hidden Gems of Irish Literature
10 Hidden Gems of Irish Literature
In Patrick McCabe’s dark phantasmagoria set in early sixties small town Ireland The Butcher Boy, probably the most pitch black Irish…
Dan Sheehan
Mar 16
The Lady of the House of Love
The Lady of the House of Love
by Angela Carter, Recommended by Kelly Link
Electric Literature
May 27, 2015
How To Name Your Big Important Novel
How To Name Your Big Important Novel
Everybody knows you don’t judge a book by its cover, you judge it by its title. Nadxieli Nieto and I have made the following infographic to…
Lincoln Michel
Apr 13, 2015
When Popular Fiction Isn’t Popular: Genre, Literary, and the Myths of Popularity
When Popular Fiction Isn’t Popular: Genre, Literary, and the Myths of Popularity
Genre Vs. Literary Has Nothing to Do with Popularity
Lincoln Michel
Apr 2
The World of Elena Ferrante: A Non-Fiction Reading List
The World of Elena Ferrante: A Non-Fiction Reading List
by Michael McCanne
Electric Literature
Mar 28
Karan Mahajan on the Inner Lives of Terrorists & Victims in Today’s India
Karan Mahajan on the Inner Lives of Terrorists & Victims in Today’s India
It is not Delhi that appears in Karan Mahajan’s The Association of Small Bombs (Viking, 2016), but Dilli, the Hindi pronunciation connoting…
Megha Majumdar
Mar 22
Tyrants & Demagogues in Fiction: A Reading List
Tyrants & Demagogues in Fiction: A Reading List
It Can’t Happen Here is a novel about Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip, a populist US senator who wins the presidency by playing on the fears of…
Carrie Mullins
Mar 21
How to Promote Your Book (Without Being Annoying)
How to Promote Your Book (Without Being Annoying)
The Blunt Instrument is a monthly advice column for writers. If you need tough advice for a writing problem, send your question to blunt…
Elisa Gabbert
Mar 24
Writing On Screen: Why Do Writing Students Love Such Terrible Mentors?
Writing On Screen: Why Do Writing Students Love Such Terrible Mentors?
by Leah Schnelbach
Electric Literature
Oct 9, 2015
On Not Writing: An Illustrated Guide to My Anxieties
On Not Writing: An Illustrated Guide to My Anxieties
by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Electric Literature
Feb 19
My Time at the International Boarding School for the Fostering of Excellence
My Time at the International Boarding School for the Fostering of Excellence
New Fiction by Etgar Keret
Electric Literature
Nov 16, 2015
How Will A Cellist Sound Beneath The Sea?
How Will A Cellist Sound Beneath The Sea?
Poems by Michelle Peñaloza
Electric Literature
Mar 14
The Terms Of The Experiment: An Interview With Joyce Carol Oates
The Terms Of The Experiment: An Interview With Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates, five-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and recipient of a National Book Award and a National Humanities…
Catherine LaSota
Jan 22
Ursula K. Le Guin talks to Michael Cunningham about genres, gender, and broadening fiction
Ursula K. Le Guin talks to Michael Cunningham about genres, gender, and broadening fiction
To celebrate this fantastic conversation between Hugo-and-Nebula award winner Ursula K. Le Guin and Pulitzer Prize winner Michael…
Electric Literature
Apr 1
If That’s All There Is
If That’s All There Is
by Mona Awad, Recommended by Laura van den Berg
Electric Literature
Apr 1
The Abandoned House
The Abandoned House
by Mario Levrero, recommended by Asymptote
Electric Literature
Dec 2, 2015
Oh Ghetto My Love
Oh Ghetto My Love
by Eduardo Halfon, recommended by Electric Literature (Newly Translated Fiction)
Electric Literature
Nov 4, 2015
The Humble Simple Thing
The Humble Simple Thing
by Sheila Heti, Art and Cut-up by Sara Lautman
Electric Literature
Aug 26, 2015
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