Electric Literature

Electric Literatureby Lyndsey Croal·22d ago

My Dead Husband Still Wants the Last Word The Bone Hermit It’s very inconvenient that the hermit crab has taken up residence in your bones.

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Electric Literatureby Electric Literature·23d ago

Emily St John Mandel Can’t Distinguish Between the Real and Surreal Anymore The author of EXIT PARTY on being discovered from slush, embracing the mess of a first draft, and putting herself in her...

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Electric Literatureby Yasmin Roshanian·23d ago

TAKE WHAT YOU CAN Tests the Limits of Chosen Family Naima Coster discusses friendship at the fragile intersections of postpartum identity, class disparity, and maternal grief Somewhere in France...

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Electric Literatureby Chris Vanjonack·24d ago

Introduction by Weston Morrow When I was young, I naively thought one city couldn’t be so different from the next. Were Seattle and Philadelphia really that distinct?

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Electric Literatureby Serubiri Moses·27d ago

In These Novels by African Women, Coming of Age Is Collective JUDITH NAMALA author Serubiri Moses explores stories where African girlhood bears the weight of patriarchy and history The following...

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Electric Literatureby Hannah Levy·28d ago

My Father Called Me His Problem Child If there had once been a rope connecting me to him, at this point in my life it had dwindled down to a thread He Was My Father by Hannah Levy When I get the...

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Electric Literatureby Electric Literature·28d ago

Exclusive Cover Reveal of MORE HAPPY LOVE by Joanna Pearson Two dragonflies entwined in jewel-bright symmetry reflect the interweaving desire and danger in these stories Electric Literature is...

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Electric Literatureby Amulya Tadimety·8 Sept 2026

A Debut Novel About Knowing Everything and Nothing Stacey Yu on emotional transference, post-grad naïveté, and the human-animal relationships that shape us in KITTEN For several years, I’ve enjoyed...

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Electric Literatureby Genevieve Plunkett·7 Sept 2026

Introduction by Kimberly King Parsons Anyone who has had their heart broken knows it can turn you into a desperate, tedious person: an amateur detective, archaeologist, ghost hunter, or conspiracy...

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Electric Literatureby Scott McClanahan·4 Sept 2026

7 Books About Writing the Writer These authors turned the lives of their friends, lovers, and collaborators into literature We usually think of the writer as a solitary being, whereas if you...

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Electric Literatureby Kira Homsher·3 Sept 2026

What If There Is No Master Plan for Your Life? I thought I knew the point at which my youth would transform into something else January, a Loss of Signs by Kira Homsher I. January.

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Electric Literatureby Mike Bove·2 Sept 2026

A Frozen Bird Too Beautiful to Bury Our Bodies Are Owl Bodies My mother was walking in a storm when she saw it face-up in the snow. She knelt down. It wasn’t breathing. She gathered it close.

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Electric Literatureby Electric Literature·1 Sept 2026

For Marlon James, Being Incurious Is a Writer’s Biggest Sin The Booker Prize-winning author on reading his way through writer's block, and why every sentence has to risk going too far When I...

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Electric Literatureby Bareerah Ghani·1 Sept 2026

A Story of Love and Resistance Amidst Dispossession In Nyla Matuk's LEILA AND KHALID, romantic love is underscored by a longing for Palestine Poet Nyla Matuk’s debut novel, Leila and Khaled...

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Electric Literatureby Anna Reeser·31 Aug 2026

Introduction by Willem Marx For every Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, there are thousands of Jeremy Stapletons—uncompromising college poets who inevitably become business managers, computer...

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Electric Literatureby Electric Literature·28 Aug 2026

15 Books We Read and Loved This Summer The EL staff reviews the best things we've read lately As you might imagine, we read a lot of books here at EL.

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Electric Literatureby Carson Markland·28 Aug 2026

Brothers, for Better or Worse These seven books explore the rivalries, resentments, and unexpected intimacies that shape the bonds between brothers There was a proverb I came across once that’s...

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Electric Literatureby Hélène Giannecchini·27 Aug 2026

We’ve Inherited a History of Solidarity and Grief My girlfriend saw me entering my 20s without a care in the world; at my age she was watching her friends die “Our Inheritance Was Left to Us by No...

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Electric Literatureby Electric Literature·27 Aug 2026

Exclusive Cover Reveal of HOPE YOU STILL LOVE ME by Rabha Ashry By collaging pieces of the author's life, the cover mirrors the book's intimate journey through madness and healing Electric...

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Electric Literatureby Jae Towle Vieira·26 Aug 2026

Every Parent Needs a Tub of Their Own Cabin for Four in High Sierra One winter, the Friday before a big storm, Mom brought home a clawfoot tub in the back of the pickup.

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