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Electric Literatureby Erika Meitner1d ago
Nothing Says Apocalypse Like a Hampton Inn Parking Lot Soft Landing Summer At the Hampton Inn half a mile down Highway 301 from the Winn Dixie where I pick up a bottle of cheap Chardonnay, next to...
Electric Literatureby David Mura2d ago
Lessons on Writing and Life from an Elder As a result of aging, your ego should get smaller, whether you want it to or not.
Electric Literatureby Evander James Reyes2d ago
UNPRECEDENTED TIMES is the Ultimate Gen Z Pandemic Novel Malavika Kannan discusses her debut adult novel about being in college during the COVID lockdowns, written as she experienced it in real...
Electric Literatureby Robert G Penner3d ago
Introduction by Jeremy M Davies Having been burned so many times before, you might be thinking—as I did when I first saw this manuscript—that the title of this novel must refer to a metaphorical...
Electric Literatureby Katie Bennett6d ago
What Is a Mother Allowed to Write? Part of me believes that as a mother I’m committing some sin of impropriety by writing the ugliest parts of my life It’s 5:00 AM and I’m writing in a corner of...
Electric Literatureby Flávia Monteiro6d ago
The Truth Really Will Set You Free in Deesha Philyaw’s Sexy Debut Novel Scandal unravels a long buried secret, testing faith, friendship, and love in THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF FIRST LADY FREEMAN The...
Electric Literatureby Franny Choi7d ago
The Concept of the Asian Robot Maid Has Haunted My Life Who is this mechanical maid everyone wants to conjure into existence? What is this job we’re so desperate to give her?
Electric Literatureby Amy X. Wang8d ago
The Gaping Asshole in My Parents’ Front Yard Julia’s Anus 1. Earth split open on a Tuesday. It happened right as Julia was telling me I was a LACKADAISICAL FUCKING LOSER for the second time.
Electric Literatureby Electric Literature9d ago
Min Jin Lee Reads a Chapter From the Bible Every Day Before She Writes The AMERICAN HAGWON author on many shitty drafts, pleasing the ancestors, and finding answers to her questions I first...
Electric Literatureby Marisa Wright9d ago
FIRST SUMMER Reminds Us That Teenage Relationships Never Fade Away Ekin Oklap discusses the intensity of adolescence, antidotes to loneliness, and how early experiences shape our lives Ekin Oklap...
Electric Literatureby Antoine Volodine10d ago
Introduction by Brian Evenson “Antoine Volodine” is the heteronym of a person who prefers not to be named.
Electric Literatureby Erik Fuhrer13d ago
7 Experimental Books That Reimagine How Trauma Is Told These authors use fracture and disruption to capture the experience of trauma and enact it in the text itself Trauma does not recollect to us...
Electric Literatureby Electric Literature14d ago
Bret Stephens Is Big Mad at the Best Writers He Hasn’t Read The NYT opinion columnist referred to the National Book Award longlists as “the literary world’s DEI checklist" By now you might’ve seen...
Electric Literatureby Lucy Zhang14d ago
My Husband Swears Our Baby Is Out To Murder Us He's begun to fantasize that our son will wipe my in-laws off the planet Son Debt by Lucy Zhang Husband swears to me L is out to murder us.
Electric Literatureby Electric Literature14d ago
Exclusive Cover Reveal of FAR FROM EVERYWHERE by Hiromi Kawakami, Translated by Allison Markin Powell Muted facades and narrow streets frame the quiet dramas of an overlooked Tokyo community...
Electric Literatureby Nate Lippens15d ago
Sometimes Grief Comes With Nude Polaroids An excerpt from Bastards Rudy left me his old leather motorcycle jacket, which I took to have the zippers repaired and the lining replaced.
Electric Literatureby D/Annie Liontas16d ago
The 1990s Black Sitcom Was Both a Promise and a Trap In A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE, Camille Acker satirizes a television era that offered the illusion of middle class safety while masking systemic harm...
Electric Literatureby Miljenko Jergović17d ago
Introduction by Ellen Elias-Bursać Having left Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1993, mid-war, Miljenko Jergović settled in Zagreb, Croatia, where he lives today.
Electric Literatureby Nita Noveno20d ago
8 Memoirs That Complicate the Story of Filipino America Spanning eight decades, these writers use unconventional forms to explore migration, family, gender, grief, and belonging The first known...
Electric Literatureby Tiffany Huang21d ago
I Lost Myself When I Lost Hong Kong If returning to America was like getting on a lifeboat, why did I feel like I was drowning?
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