“Kevin Kramer Starts on Monday” by Debbie Graber, recommended by The Unnamed Press Electric Literature April 6, 2016 Recommended Reading Issue No. 203 AN INTRODUCTION BY CATE DICHARRY Have you ever read a story so incisive and...
“The Black Parasol” by Jack Pendarvis, recommended by Dzanc Books Electric Literature March 30, 2016 Recommended Reading Issue No. 202 AN INTRODUCTION BY GUY INTOCI I first came across Jack Pendarvis’s stories...
“The Pride of Life” by Christopher Sorrentino, recommended by Joanna Yas Electric Literature March 23, 2016 Recommended Reading Issue No. 201 AN INTRODUCTION BY JOANNA YAS I decided I wanted to publish “The Pride of...
Electric Literature is Moving to Medium Electric Literature April 4, 2016 News, Scuttlebutt Dear Readers, This morning, Medium announced that Electric Literature will be joining the Medium platform as one of...
Play Electric Literature’s AWP Bingo Lincoln Michel March 29, 2016 Scuttlebutt Packing your chapbooks, moleskines, and bathing suits for AWP LA? When you get there, be sure to visit us at table...
Will the Next J.K. Rowling Be a Robot? Chelsea Baumgarten March 23, 2016 Scuttlebutt 8 Comments As if it isn't already difficult enough to win a literary contest, writers who submit fiction to The Nikkei Hoshi...
In Praise of the Messed Up Mind: Synesthesia, Substances, and the World Anew and Askew Molly Prentiss April 7, 2016 Features Last night I was sitting at a restaurant with a writer friend—let’s call him Ed because his name is Ed—arguing...
Writer Horoscopes for April 2016: April Commas Bring May Comas Apostrodamus April 6, 2016 Features Aries (March 21 – April 19) This is a good month to see how the sausage (aka your cyborgian flash fiction, your...
Always Afraid, Always Alone: On Writing and the Zombie Inside Us Alexander Lumans April 5, 2016 Features There are four species of fungus growing in the Brazilian rainforest that exhibit powers of mind control over ants....
In Everything I Found on the Beach, Cynan Jones’ Writing Is Rapid-fire Perfection Cath Barton April 7, 2016 Books, Reviews The Welsh writer Cynan Jones’s novels are short in length but weighty in their content, bald and yet redolent with...
The Unsettling Gaze of Han Kang: Examining Han Kang’s The Vegetarian and Human Acts John William Walker Zeiser April 4, 2016 Books, Reviews Flesh permeates the work of the novelist Han Kang. Her novel, The Vegetarian, obsesses over it. Unsurprising...
Liar Presents a Cascade of Remembered Moments, Some True, Some Not Brian Evenson March 28, 2016 Books, Reviews At a certain point a decade or more back, I turned my house and dog over to a friend while I taught a semester at...
Rob Spillman on Finding Your Community, Joining the Conversation, and All Tomorrow’s Parties: An Interview Deirdre Sugiuchi April 7, 2016 Interviews Rob Spillman’s childhood was split between Berlin and the States, between living with his father, a concert pianist,...
Elizabeth Crane on Building a Novel from the Conversations of a Mother and Daughter Heather Scott Partington April 5, 2016 Interviews Elizabeth Crane’s newest novel, The History of Great Things, is a series of imagined conversations between a woman...
Miroslav Penkov on Falling in Love with Bulgaria and the Making of Stork Mountain Tobias Carroll March 30, 2016 Interviews 1 Comment Miroslav Penkov’s novel Stork Mountain sprawls in unexpected ways. Initially, the plot seems familiar: a young man...
“Enjoy Your Mutiny, Captain” – Read a New Short Story from David Nutt Electric Literature April 4, 2016 Okey-Panky FICTION: THE RIM, BY DAVID NUTT LaRoche and DeWalt and DeWitt wait around the rim, squinting through the steam, the...
Privileged Nostalgia: On Hollywood, Perception, and the Quest for Authenticity Megha Majumdar March 28, 2016 Okey-Panky 1 Comment ESSAY: PRIVILEGED NOSTALGIA, BY MEGHA MAJUMDAR The idea of nostalgia comes to us not from poetry but from medicine. A...
Read a Weirdly Hilarious Comic by Simeon Mills Electric Literature March 21, 2016 Okey-Panky COMIC: DOUG’S VIDEOS, BY SIMEON...
