Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . There is a lot of news over the past week that will live on eternally. But one of the taglines that brought
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Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . I heard about Emma Cline’s 2016 debut, The Girls, as many of us did—through a whirlwind of praise and accolades, from literary
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . In Argentine author Samanta Schweblin’s latest novel, Little Eyes, characters indulge in long-distance voyeurism—and exhibitionism—via mobile stuffed toys with built in cameras,
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . I was at a Christmas party with a man who wanted me to hate him. I should hate all whites, he felt,
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He’s the Daddy for Our Weekend in the Country Christopher James Llego Share article Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . “Docile Bodies” by Christopher James Llego I’m lactose
Käthe Kollwitz, Pietà (Mother with Dead Son), 1937 (enlarged by Harald Haake in 1993), Neue Wache, Unter den Linden, Berlin / Photo by deadmanjones / Flickr / Original sculpture in the Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln Pillow of Poppies Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine – Apollinaire Seine, you flow,at a good pace, deep
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . When I was ten years old, the fairies won a court case. More precisely, Irish protestors successfully diverted a proposed new motorway
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . I am a literature professor because when I was 18 years old and in my first year of college, I read Toni
We heard the trucks pull up, the barking voices,a woman in the street –Irina? – putting upa fight. Each night, the bell’s insistent buzz,the foot-stomps on the stairs. My boy in my lap,I sat in darkness, two fingers pressed to his lips.We heard their boots kick open the landing doorthen cries. Each night that week,
We are the 300-year-old big bois of the sea and we did not come to play Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . In the tidepools we felt an
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . Bryan Washington’s debut novel, Memorial, is about Benson, a Black daycare teacher, and his boyfriend Mike, a Japanese American chef, who find
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . Imagine bookstores, libraries and life really, without Anne Frank, The Little Prince, the Quran, and Murakami. This is what a world without
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . All my life, I heard stories about Cuba. From my father, from mis abuelos on my mother’s side. We made a home
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . From the first time I heard Dee Dee Ramone shout the count-in to “Blitzkrieg Bop,” I was hooked. I couldn’t get my
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . Journalists like Anne Helen Petersen, former culture writer at BuzzFeed, and Casey Newton, former tech reporter at The Verge, have recently been
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . I’m writing this before knowing the results of the American election—and depending on how long things take, you may be reading it
If Only Your Life Was as Heroic as Your Novel Kristopher Jansma Kristopher Jansma is the author of the novels Why We Came to the City and The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards. He is an Assistant Professor of English and the Director of Creative Writing at SUNY New Paltz College. Share article Electric Lit relies on contributions from