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      Here Is the 2016 Baileys Prize Shortlist

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      April 11, 2016
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      Electric Literature is Moving to Medium

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      April 4, 2016
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      Play Electric Literature’s AWP Bingo

      Lincoln Michel
      March 29, 2016
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      Will the Next J.K. Rowling Be a Robot?

      Chelsea Baumgarten
      March 23, 2016
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      Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (March 23rd)

      Lincoln Michel
      March 23, 2016
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      Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney on the Surprises and Reinventions Behind Her Blockbuster Debut

      Catherine LaSota
      March 23, 2016
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      Roxane Gay’s Debut Novel, An Untamed State, To Be Made Into a Movie

      Carrie Mullins
      March 22, 2016
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  • Features
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      Contemporary Innovators of the Short Story: A Reading List

      Rebecca Schiff
      April 12, 2016
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      Space Tourism in Modern Storytelling

      Anya Groner
      April 12, 2016
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      The Girl in the Cabinet (I Read What You Wrote and I Hate You)

      Melissa Chadburn
      April 8, 2016
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      TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD: THE BELLHOP AT THE HOLIDAY INN

      Ted Wilson
      April 8, 2016
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      In Praise of the Messed Up Mind: Synesthesia, Substances, and the World Anew and Askew

      Molly Prentiss
      April 7, 2016
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    • literary horoscopes

      Writer Horoscopes for April 2016: April Commas Bring May Comas

      Apostrodamus
      April 6, 2016
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      Always Afraid, Always Alone: On Writing and the Zombie Inside Us

      Alexander Lumans
      April 5, 2016
  • Books
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      The Stories in Diane Williams’ Latest Collection, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine Don't Resemble The Typical Short Story

      Kevin Zambrano
      April 11, 2016
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      In Everything I Found on the Beach, Cynan Jones’ Writing Is Rapid-fire Perfection

      Cath Barton
      April 7, 2016
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      The Unsettling Gaze of Han Kang: Examining Han Kang’s The Vegetarian and Human Acts

      John William Walker Zeiser
      April 4, 2016
    • Liar, Rob Roberge, Crown, Brian Evenson

      Liar Presents a Cascade of Remembered Moments, Some True, Some Not

      Brian Evenson
      March 28, 2016
    • Prodigals, Greg Jackson, FSG

      Prodigals Deftly Exemplifies Adulthood In All Its Downer Glory

      Liberty Hardy
      March 24, 2016
    • Shelter, Jung Yun, Picador

      Debut Novelist Jung Yun Follows the Money in Shelter

      Ilana Masad
      March 21, 2016
    • What Is Yours Is Not Yours, Riverhead Books

      Helen Oyeyemi’s What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours Reveals Continued Mastery in Exploring the Real in the Fantastical

      Ilana Masad
      March 17, 2016
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      Jack Pendarvis on Movie Stars, Annie Hall, and The Small Ghost Donkey That Defines Us All: An Interview

      William Boyle
      April 12, 2016
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      Rob Spillman on Finding Your Community, Joining the Conversation, and All Tomorrow’s Parties: An Interview

      Deirdre Sugiuchi
      April 7, 2016
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    • Elizabeth Crane

      Elizabeth Crane on Building a Novel from the Conversations of a Mother and Daughter

      Heather Scott Partington
      April 5, 2016
    • Miroslav Penkov

      Miroslav Penkov on Falling in Love with Bulgaria and the Making of Stork Mountain

      Tobias Carroll
      March 30, 2016
      1
    • Victor LaValle

      Victor LaValle Talks About Horror Fiction, Imaginative Illiteracy, and Lovecraft’s Complicated Legacy

      Lincoln Michel
      March 30, 2016
      2
    • Chris Bachelder

      Chris Bachelder, Author of The Throwback Special, Writes the American Male Psyche

      Lily Meyer
      March 29, 2016
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      Lynn Steger Strong on Writing Characters Too Nuanced To Be Reduced

      Meredith Turits
      March 24, 2016
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      "Kevin Kramer Starts on Monday" by Debbie Graber, recommended by The Unnamed Press

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      April 6, 2016
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      “The Black Parasol” by Jack Pendarvis, recommended by Dzanc Books

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      March 30, 2016
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      “The Pride of Life” by Christopher Sorrentino, recommended by Joanna Yas

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      March 23, 2016
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      “Retrieval” by Téa Obreht, An Original Story Recommended by Electric Literature

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      March 17, 2016
      2
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      “Magical Negro #607: Gladys Knight on the 200th Episode of The Jeffersons” by Morgan Parker, Original Poetry Recommended by Electric Literature

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      March 16, 2016
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      “Captain Stubing Has Collapsed” by Rob McCleary, original fiction Recommended by Electric Literature

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      March 15, 2016
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      March 14, 2016
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      “Enjoy Your Mutiny, Captain” - Read a New Short Story from David Nutt

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      April 4, 2016
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      The Wooden Miles: Poems by Kevin Craft

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      April 11, 2016
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      Privileged Nostalgia: On Hollywood, Perception, and the Quest for Authenticity

      Megha Majumdar
      March 28, 2016
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      Read a Weirdly Hilarious Comic by Simeon Mills

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      March 21, 2016
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      How Will A Cellist Sound Beneath The Sea? – Poems by Michelle Peñaloza

      Electric Literature
      March 14, 2016
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      A Cluster of Cactus Wrens – A New Short Story by Kiik A.K.

      Electric Literature
      March 7, 2016
    • Paul Gustav Fischer

      Drum Circles, Sexual Temples, and Skinny Dipping in Hawaii – An Essay by Emily Meg Weinstein

      Electric Literature
      February 29, 2016
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Author Lincoln Michel

Lincoln Michel

Editor-in-Chief, electricliterature.com

Lincoln Michel is the Editor-in-Chief of electricliterature.com and the coeditor of Gigantic. He is the author of the genre-bending story collection Upright Beasts and the co-editor of the science fiction anthology Gigantic Worlds.

Victor LaValle

Victor LaValle Talks About Horror Fiction, Imaginative Illiteracy, and Lovecraft’s Complicated Legacy

Lincoln Michel
March 30, 2016
Interviews
2 Comments
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of talking to literary horror writer extraordinaire, Victor LaValle, for Vice about his new Lovecraft-by-way-of-#blacklivesmatter novel The Ballad of Black Tom....
BINGO writing

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 836. You can get 10% off anything from our literary aces playing cards to our The Book Is...
chains, midweek links

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (March 23rd)

Lincoln Michel
March 23, 2016
Midweek links
Looking for some interesting reading to get you through the week? Here are some literary links from around the web to check out: Should writers reconsider their relationship to publishing? How climate...
shakespearecovers

Watch Shakespeare Get a Makeover with These Beautiful New Covers

Lincoln Michel
March 15, 2016
Scuttlebutt
3 Comments
It's been 400 years since William Shakespeare died, but his works are still widely read and performed today. To celebrate the Bard's continued relevance, Penguin Books is rereleasing his works with swanky new...
Ferrante author

Why Do We Care Who the “Real” Elena Ferrante Is?

Lincoln Michel
March 14, 2016
Scuttlebutt
7 Comments
Elena Ferrante, the author of the internationally-acclaimed and best-selling Neapolitan novels, has a perfectly fine explanation for why she chose to remain anonymous: I will only tell you that it’s a...
chains, midweek links

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (March 10th)

Lincoln Michel
March 10, 2016
Midweek links
Looking for some interesting reading to get you through the week? Here are some literary links from around the web to check out: A Chaucer scholar analyses the poetry of Donald Trump's Twitter...
Man Booker International Prize

Elena Ferrante and Orhan Pamuk among Man Booker International 2016 Longlist Authors

Lincoln Michel
March 10, 2016
News
1 Comment
The Man Booker International Prize has announced the 13 books on the longlist for this year's prize. The list of authors include the pseudonymous Italian author Elena Ferrante and Nobel prize winners from...
Game of Thrones, The Beatles

George R. R. Martin Announces He’s “Not Dead” After Panicked Fans Confuse Him with The Beatles Producer

Lincoln Michel
March 10, 2016
News
1 Comment
Legendary music producer George Martin passed away at the age of 90 this week. Martin was most famous for his work as "the fifth Beatle," signing the band in their early years and introducing many innovative...
Baileys Prize

Here Is the 2016 Baileys Prize Longlist

Lincoln Michel
March 8, 2016
Scuttlebutt
The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, formerly the Orange Prize, is one of the most celebrated awards in UK literature. Any woman writer who has published a book in the UK in English in the past year is...
MFA debate

MFA vs. CPU: Another MFA Article Misses the Bigger Picture

Lincoln Michel
March 7, 2016
Features
4 Comments
Every now and then, the literary world likes to take a break from debating whether ebooks are taking over or whether the novel is dead to discuss an even more pressing matter: are MFA programs bad? Of all...
chains, midweek links

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (March 3rd)

Lincoln Michel
March 3, 2016
Midweek links
1 Comment
Looking for some interesting reading to get you through the week? Here are some literary links from around the web to check out: Victor LaValle talks H.P. Lovecraft, racism, and his new Lovecraftian novella...
The Dark Tower Idris Elba

Stephen King Confirms Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey for The Dark Tower Adaptation

Lincoln Michel
March 1, 2016
Scuttlebutt
1 Comment
Stephen King is one of the most frequently-adapted authors alive, but fans have long been waiting for an adaptation to his epic genre-bending series The Dark Tower. Well, it finally seems to be happening, and...
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