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. I was 23 the first time I saw Children of Men. I had graduated from college and was working an administrative job
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You Can’t Hoard Your Way into the American Dream 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. “Son” by Mike Schoch In terms of helping people throw out unnecessary shit
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. Hope is irresistible. A dozen years ago hope got us a president, and against all logic we’ve continued hoping ever since. But
[I ask everybody] I ask everybodyhave you noticed todaywhen the time passedwith its voice of silencewith its common appearanceI had a word to shareit will happen next timewhen I am awake I am listening je demande à tout le mondeavez-vous vu aujourd’huile temps quand il est passéavec sa voix de silenceavec son air des toujoursj’avais
There’s till time to support exciting, relevant, and inclusive literature in 2020! If you enjoyed reading Electric Literature this year, please make a year-end contribution today. Last year was a difficult one, but there were at least 40 up sides: debut authors, with fresh voices and viewpoints, whose work offered us perspective or escape. As
There’s till time to support exciting, relevant, and inclusive literature in 2020! If you enjoyed reading Electric Literature this year, please make a year-end contribution today. Translating novels, short stories, and poetry into English in a way that remains true to their original form can take years, even decades of dedication. And then there is
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There’s till time to support exciting, relevant, and inclusive literature in 2020! If you enjoyed reading Electric Literature this year, please make a year-end contribution today. The grand master put a brass collar around the new member’s neck, a symbol for dogs’ servitude towards their masters. Taking the new member by the right hand, he
Nothing Adds Up in American Math There’s till time to support exciting, relevant, and inclusive literature in 2020! If you enjoyed reading Electric Literature this year, please make a year-end contribution today. Dividing Line If every crosswalk is an equals sign, then every block’s an equation that needs balancing. On Kansas City’s State Line Road,
There’s till time to support exciting, relevant, and inclusive literature in 2020! If you enjoyed reading Electric Literature this year, please make a year-end contribution today. The last thing I did on my last day in the office, March 11, was try to figure out which books to bring home. I wasn’t sure how long
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Find the perfect gift for the writer or reader in your life in our online store. Take 20% your entire order with the code STAYHOME2020, now through Christmas! I have picked up the same book five times this year to read the first 30 pages. I always stop at 30. In between attempts, I have