Detail from Glück’s letter to the author / Courtesy of the author In a tribute to her teacher being named the 2020 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a past protégée offers a glimpse into Glück’s renowned generosity in the classroom and beyond. At the beginning of September 2009, I arrived fifteen to twenty
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When the Past Hangs Around Your Neck 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. . Fate To Jorge Payá, for his good ideas Stretched out on the beach, Lyuba removes
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Ani Kokobobo is associate professor and chair of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Kansas and editor of the Tolstoy Studies Journal. She received her PhD from Columbia University with a dissertation on the grotesque and the body in late Russian realism. She specializes in nineteenth-century Russian literature as well as Balkan modernism.
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When Emma Keegan loses her husband of three years in a tragic accident, she loses her sense of direction. Without her husband, Alfonso Bove, Emma withdraws from the world that once saw them as the sensational hit Italian-American singing duo. Now her lifelong interest of music, friends, and activities are meaningless without Alfonso. But even
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. . With this week’s recent announcement that season 4 of GLOW—which would have been the show’s final season—was canceled, many fans were left
Photo by Nebojsa Mladjenovic / Flickr Series editor’s note: In Chris Abani’s poem “Ritual Is Journey,” the black man has been laid bare on the page, his histories refocused, and though he originates from light, from a particular flutter, it is clear that his lineage has been littered with small wars. “To be a man,
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 decided to wear a kimono and high heels to the party because I wanted people to see me in a kimono
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. . Although natural births are making a comeback in the U.S. today, midwives have historically faced opposition for being as dangerously unprofessional, unhygienic,
Boyhood In the Plague Jonathan Escoffery 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. . “Pestilence” by Jonathan Escoffery That first and only plot of American soil my parents
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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. . Early in Rumaan Alam’s third novel, Leave the World Behind, the author introduces the kind of alarming, unplanned events that are both
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 struggled to get pregnant for three years. During that period, I experienced miscarriages and surgery, and I injected my abdomen with
Lesley M.M. Blume / Photo © Oberto Gili / Courtesy of HMH Books “The opportunity to learn from history’s tragedies has not yet passed.”—Lesley Blume Released on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic bomb dropping on Hiroshima, Japan, Lesley M.M. Blume’s Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World (Simon
Lost in the Woods in an Election Year 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. . Automatic Season Oak, pine, and moss repeat like an ad for moss, pine and
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 Mychal Denzel Smith’s latest book, Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream, he writes of America at a reckoning point,
Janet Wong is a graduate of Yale Law School and a former lawyer who switched careers to become a children’s author. Her dramatic career change has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN’s Paula Zahn Show, and Radical Sabbatical. She is the author of more than thirty books for children and teens on a