If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. Hollywood. It’s one of those locations—it’s hard, somehow, to call it a concrete place—that conjures up all sorts of archetypes: the ruined
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Rama Panda performing a Naga dance in Puri, Odisha State / Photo courtesy of the author “Gouranga has been diminished by fate,” writes Jitendra Nath Misra, “so let us give him a home.” In the following essay, the author celebrates the legacy and magic of this night drummer, “the sacred geographies of his body and
A Journalist on Vacation Becomes Part of the Story Share article If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. Woman on the Riverbank by Juan Gabriel Vásquez I I have
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. In YZ Chin’s debut novel, Edge Case, Edwina, a Malaysian woman in New York City, comes home one day to find her
The hour of hooded crowswhen cleaners fly for the nightall carrion is eatenall bones picked and all skinsfarewell you unlucky trail explorers!only a wet spot left nowwhere a careless black furry mole came to the surfaceout of its secret passages,a failed resident of the garden depths waves of black wingson a red background of the
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. The 2020 Tokyo Games will be defined by many things—the anachronism of its title, the risk of superspreading, the welcome absence of
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Emilio Fraia’s Sevastopol, out this summer from New Directions, is the sort of book that beguiles and dazzles in equal measure. Consisting of three disparate stories—of a mountain climber attempting to scale Mt. Everest, a mysterious loner who vanishes into the Brazilian countryside, and an avant-garde production set during the Crimean War—the book is an
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. Electric Literature’s new editor-in-chief is Denne Michele Norris, who previously served as Fiction Editor at Apogee Journal and Senior Fiction Editor for
My Aunt Doesn’t Care in Four Different Languages If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. Today 1. So I was thinking today about that cup of black coffee you
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. In the 20 years after spending a tumultuous summer in Marbella, Spain, Arezu has remained largely quiet about what happened, as if
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. For much of my childhood, I had the same dream several times a week. It began with standing in front of a
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. Purgatory was a place often discussed in my thirteen years of Catholic school, a spiritual middle state where a person must examine
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. When David Lowery and A24’s The Green Knight hit theaters this Friday, I, a medievalist scholar, was giddy with delight. The film
In the Land of 10,000 Lakes, to which I recently relocated from the land of infinite spectacles, California, summer seems to be one long conversation about canoes. I am clueless as to what people actually do in that elusive, much coveted institution of The Cabin, the birthright of those who have been here for more
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. It could have been soccer or tap dancing, it could have been Dungeons & Dragons or Model United Nations, but for editor
[embedded content] In this second episode of WLT Book Buzz, Laura Hernandez & Bunmi Ishola cover 42 books that connect with history. Find out what they read this summer and why these books should be on your shelf. Partition, World War II, the Tulsa Race Massacre, and the architect Zaha Hadid: these are just a few
The Cost of Stealing from the Parallel Dimension Brian Evenson Share article If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. “The Shimmering Wall” by Brian Evenson 1. Those parts of