Literature

My Nervous Breakdown Will Absolutely Be Televised Sydney Rende Share article “Monsters” by Sydney Rende A few weeks before we were set to film season eight, I made an account on a dating app. I had been dumped on national television at the beginning of the summer (they put the dumping in the season finale),

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Electric Lit is just $4,000 away from our year-end fundraising goal of $35,000! We need to hit this target to get us through the rest of 2025, and balance the budget for 2026. Please give today! DONATE NOW. I first heard of Gilmore Girls from the promos airing during the commercial breaks when I watched Buffy the

Electric Lit is just $4,000 away from our year-end fundraising goal of $35,000! We need to hit this target to get us through the rest of 2025, and balance the budget for 2026. Please give today! DONATE NOW. On a Thursday morning in August I’m at the gym, listening to the audiobook of Shane McCrae’s Pulling the

Her Husband’s Principles Are Ruining Christmas William Trevor Share article Electric Lit is just $4,000 away from our year-end fundraising goal of $35,000! We need to hit this target to get us through the rest of 2025, and balance the budget for 2026. Please give today! DONATE NOW. “Another Christmas” by William Trevor You always looked back,

Electric Lit is just $4,000 away from our year-end fundraising goal of $35,000! We need to hit this target to get us through the rest of 2025, and balance the budget for 2026. Please give today! DONATE NOW. Recently, I lamented an obnoxiously writerly desire to my husband: I wish I had more of a window into

Electric Lit is just $4,000 away from our year-end fundraising goal of $35,000! We need to hit this target to get us through the rest of 2025, and balance the budget for 2026. Please give today! DONATE NOW. About two-thirds into Hamnet, the film adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel of the same name, there is a scene

Electric Lit is just $4,000 away from our year-end fundraising goal of $35,000! We need to hit this target to get us through the rest of 2025, and balance the budget for 2026. Please give today! DONATE NOW. There’s a specific vertigo to reflecting on the past year at the tail end of December. It’s an annual

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My Horny Extra Hand Needs Boundaries Electric Lit is just $7,000 away from our year-end fundraising goal of $35,000! We need to hit this target to get us through the rest of 2025, and balance the budget for 2026. Please give today! DONATE NOW. Prayers to the God of Progress I was busy massaging the kale for my

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Eye Fucking Men Across New York City Maggie Love Share article Electric Lit is just $7,000 away from our year-end fundraising goal of $35,000! We need to hit this target to get us through the rest of 2025, and balance the budget for 2026. Please give today! DONATE NOW. “Shapeshifter” by Maggie Love To hear a neighbor through

Electric Lit is just $7,000 away from our year-end fundraising goal of $35,000! We need to hit this target to get us through the rest of 2025, and balance the budget for 2026. Please give today! DONATE NOW. We hear a lot about the power of story to do good. Less is said about the power of story