Friendship is My Writing Process - Electric Literature
Swapping laptops at coffee shops, asking for ideas, sending emails and texts and voice notes are essential to my art| Electric Literature
Swapping laptops at coffee shops, asking for ideas, sending emails and texts and voice notes are essential to my art| Electric Literature
The most vulnerable scene in Materialists, Director Celine Song’s sophomore feature, isn’t a love scene. It’s not when John, a down-on-his-luck artist played by Chris Evans, repeatedly declares his love for Lucy, his ex and matchmaker for New York’s elite played by Dakota Johnson. Nor is it during one of the many dates Harry, Pedro […] The post Jane Austen Did It Better appeared first on Electric Literature.| Electric Literature
When I met Marissa Davis in 2017, she was a baby poet. She will admit this herself. She’d just graduated from Vanderbilt University and was spending her June as a summer fellow at the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets. I got my chance to hear her read for the first time in one of those […] The post A Poetry Collection That Imagines a World Beyond Empire appeared first on Electric Literature.| Electric Literature
“Run for Your Life,” an excerpt from Turn to Stone by Emily Meg Weinstein “Well, I’d rather see you dead, little girl Than to be with another man” —Lennon and McCartney, “Run for Your Life” He only said it once, at an Egon Schiele retrospective on the Upper East Side. He was wearing his camel […] The post My Boyfriend’s Lies Cost Me More Than Just Our Relationship appeared first on Electric Literature.| Electric Literature
My love affair with corporate America started out like many ill-fated dalliances—with the intention it would be fun, short-lived, and I’d walk away unscathed. During my first year out of college, I worked in publishing and after my first editorial profit and loss meeting, realized it wasn’t the best place for an aspiring writer to […] The post 7 Novels About Toxic Work Environments appeared first on Electric Literature.| Electric Literature
Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler, which will be published on May 26, 2026 by Hogarth. You can pre-order your copy here. Renata is a young dyke-about-town who can see ghosts, something she’s doing more and more of lately as too many of her friends are dying […] The post Exclusive Cover Reveal of “Waiting on a Friend” by Natalie Adler appeared first on Electric Literature.| Electric Literature
Expensive Naps I’ve Taken Click to enlarge and scroll The post Sleeping Through It Is the Best Part appeared first on Electric Literature.| Electric Literature
In her debut novel Julius Julius, Aurora Stewart de Peña creates an outsized, funhouse mirror of the advertising industry, one she knows intimately. Drawing on her career of over a decade, the novel sweeps us into the fictional sprawl of the world’s oldest and grandest ad agency: the titular Julius Julius. Divided in three parts, […] The post Creativity and Consumerism are Two Sides of the Same Billboard appeared first on Electric Literature.| Electric Literature
I was pregnant, swollen, and tired. I couldn’t get comfortable. I lay on the sofa and loudly said some version of, I’m so swollen and tired. I can’t get comfortable, and dramatically piled pillows beneath my feet, hoping my husband would magically appear with a glass of water. That my legs would swell was expected—it’s […] The post My Favorite Trash TV Is Ruined By Its Ableism appeared first on Electric Literature.| Electric Literature
August is always a special time for me, a woman who translates the works of women. Women in Translation month is dedicated to highlighting the work of women writers from all over the world and recognizing their contributions to literature in their own language and the languages to which they are translated. It is also […] The post 7 Books from Around the World to Read for Women in Translation Month appeared first on Electric Literature.| Electric Literature
“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
The author of “Nightshining” on connecting to place, Nabokov's blue butterfly, and America’s mid-century rainmakers| Electric Literature
“Clam Down” author Anelise Chen discusses how she broke the mold with an unusual narrative device| 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
Jenna Sattherwaite, author of "Made For You," recommends novels with surprising plot turns that shatter expectations| Electric Literature
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
