Reading Lists
11 Stories About Isolation and Loneliness
Pulitzer Prize finalist Hernan Diaz recommends books on disconnecting from society
Mar 20 - Hernan Diaz
Reading Lists
9 Books that Celebrate the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jan 20 - Dianca London
books
Could the Three Ghosts of Christmas Save the Scrooges of the Trump Era?
Dec 24 - Reina Hardy
Interviews
“Friday Black” Is a Brutal, Brilliant Satire of American Racism and Capitalism
Nov 29 - Mychal Denzel Smith
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Electric Lit’s Best Short Story Collections of 2023
Collections by Alexandra Chang, Kelly Link, Yiyun Li, and Jamel Brinkley are among the year’s finest books of short fiction
Nov 30 - Electric Literature
Reading Lists
Twisting My Life Into a Story Sacrificed My Ability to Live It
Walking away from the perfect ending gives me the freedom to write something real
Nov 30 - Jessica L Pavia
writing
You Can’t Unsubscribe From Grief
"Replying All on the Death Announcement Email," creative nonfiction by Jenessa Abrams
Nov 29 - Jenessa Abrams
10 Memoirs and Essay Collections by Black Women
These contemporary books illuminate the realities of the world for Black women in America
Nov 29 - Alicia Simba
Reading Lists
Electric Lit’s Best Poetry Collections of 2023
Gabrielle Bates, Sam Sax, Sally Wen Mao, and Edgar Kunz highlight a year of celebrated poetry collections
Nov 28 - Electric Literature
Reading Lists
8 Books that Explore the Power Dynamics of Love Triangles
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright recommends stories about the shifting allegiances and power dynamics of a threesome
Nov 28 - Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
Reading Lists
Vacation Is No Escape From Her Sorry Husband
"Beyond Carthage" from THE END OF THE WORLD IS A CUL DE SAC by Louise Kennedy, recommended by Caoilinn Hughes
Nov 27 - Louise Kennedy
RR Issue No. 603
A Woman Escapes Her Marriage by Turning into a Forest
Maru Ayase’s novel "The Forest Brims Over" explores the gendered exploitation of being an artist's muse
Nov 27 - Jaeyeon Yoo
Interviews
When the Museum of Memory Becomes a Haunted House
Jiordan Castle's memoir-in-verse, "Disappearing Act," travels back in time to adolescence to the arrest that altered her family forever
Nov 24 - Leigh Sugar
Interviews
7 Heart-Pounding Heist Novels
Lee Matthew Goldberg recommends crime stories that subvert the expectations of the genre
Nov 24 - Lee Matthew Goldberg
Reading Lists
Which Looks Better, Hardcovers or Paperbacks?
Nov 23 - Eliza Browning
Reading Lists
Sigrid Nunez Captures the Vulnerability of the Early Days of the Pandemic
In "The Vulnerables," a parrot without its owners, a trouble teen, and an older writer weather lockdown together
Nov 23 - Jaeyeon Yoo
Interviews
