An elegy by Erika Meitner| Electric Literature
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“The Final Girl” from LAKE SONG by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne, recommended by Daphne Kalotay| Electric Literature
The Impractical Door I woke up one morning and didn’t have amnesia. I could remember everything that had ever happened to me, and I knew my name. It was Carl. I also did not awaken in a white hospital room, tethered to strange machines. Furthermore, I had not been cloned. My trusty sheepdog was still […]| Electric Literature
These authors pay homage to the African-Atlantic writers who came before them| Electric Literature
Large, inflatable, yellow letters fill the cover with joy, but also suggest the unsettling way that what is inside our bodies is always straining to pop out| Electric Literature
“The Endstate of History,” flash fiction by Bernie Jean Schiebeling| Electric Literature
“The Cattleman” by Aaron Gwyn, recommended by Wynter K Miller for Electric Literature| Electric Literature
The writers discuss threads that bind their debuts, crafting character, and the possibility of the Devil feeling shame| Electric Literature
According to the Brooklyn Public Library, these titles can help you understand how we got here| Electric Literature
From Mark Zuckerberg to Elon Musk, too many wannabe Caesars are thriving on domination| Electric Literature
These memoirs center women thriving in the most technical, filthy, physically arduous, dangerous, male-dominated professions| Electric Literature
“Gondola” from AUTOCORRECT by Etgar Keret, recommended by Aimee Bender| Electric Literature
Monica Macansantos traces memory, legacy, and identity through the food her father left behind| Electric Literature
“Shifting Occupancies” from ORIGIN STORIES by Corinna Vallianatos, recommended by Jessica Anthony| Electric Literature
I could no longer sit up, and I wanted my mother| Electric Literature
Book-filled chatter in your ears, brought to you by people who love literature just as much as you probably do| Electric Literature
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Here are the literary legacies that have paved the way for writers today, and those that are yet to come| Electric Literature
My creative time and attention are more than goods to be spent and saved| Electric Literature
A. Natasha Joukovsky, author of "The Portrait of a Mirror," recommends books that resist the pressure to conform| Electric Literature
Pre-Reading Impressions For a while, I was seeing a guy who really liked David Foster Wallace. He once forced me to do cocaine by shoving it inside me during sex. He wasn’t the first man to recommend Wallace, but he’s the last whose suggestion I pretended to consider. So while I’ve never read a book […]| Electric Literature
