Literature

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
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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. . 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,
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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
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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
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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. . When I was ten years old, the fairies won a court case. More precisely, Irish protestors successfully diverted a proposed new motorway
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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,
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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. . Bryan Washington’s debut novel, Memorial, is about Benson, a Black daycare teacher, and his boyfriend Mike, a Japanese American chef, who find
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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. . Imagine bookstores, libraries and life really, without Anne Frank, The Little Prince, the Quran, and Murakami. This is what a world without
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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. . All my life, I heard stories about Cuba. From my father, from mis abuelos on my mother’s side. We made a home
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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. . From the first time I heard Dee Dee Ramone shout the count-in to “Blitzkrieg Bop,” I was hooked. I couldn’t get my
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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’m writing this before knowing the results of the American election—and depending on how long things take, you may be reading it
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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
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Andrzej Sapkowski The Last Wish Trans. Danusia Stok Sword of Destiny Trans. David French Orbit “And our destiny. It isn’t a fairy story, it’s real life. Lousy, evil, onerous . . . not sparing anyone, neither witchers, nor queens” (Sword of Destiny). The warrior queen Calanthe of Cintra may insist that the world is not magical but
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