Read Like a Writer
So You Want to Write in the Second Person
Craft lessons from stories by Blair Hurley, Gabrielle Hovendon, and Ladi Opaluwa
Jun 30 - Electric Literature
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True Love With Three Olives and a Twist
“The Martini Fairy,” flash fiction by Peter M. Kazon
Apr 29 - Peter M. Kazon
Prose
8 Quintessentially Québécois Novels Set in Montreal
These English and Francophone writers capture the diversity and cultural wealth of Québec’s storied metropolis
Apr 29 - Jake Pitre
Reading Lists
Growing Up Shouldn’t Mean Conforming and Forgetting
I always admired “Stranger Things” for insisting on imagination and nonconformity, but then the show betrayed its message
Apr 28 - Letizia Mariani
Books & Culture
A Debut Novel That Writes Magic Into a Difficult History
Jiyoung Han’s “Honey in the Wound” follows a magical Korean family surviving Japanese occupation
Apr 28 - Morgan Ome
interviews
Our Wee Town’s Violent History Is Having Its Hollywood Moment
An excerpt from PRESTIGE DRAMA by Séamas O'Reilly, recommended by Caroline O'Donoghue
Apr 27 - Séamas O’Reilly
RR Issue No. 727
7 Books About the Messy Politics of Indian Meals
Between stories of vengeful women and interdining, food becomes both life-affirming and life-destroying
Apr 27 - Asfiyah Qadri
Reading Lists
Queer Bookstores Across America to Support This Independent Bookstore Day
Check out our favorite indies around the country focusing on intersectional LGBTQ+ literature
Apr 24 - D/Annie Liontas
Reading Lists
Emma Copley Eisenberg Is Tired of the Plot Police
The “Fat Swim” author on fairytales, writing sentence by sentence, and keeping favorite authors on hand (literally)
Apr 24 - Electric Literature
interviews
My Mother Lived and Died in a Polluted Ecotone
I don’t know if unseen toxicities caused her cancer, but I can’t pull myself away from the question
Apr 23 - Sarah Giragosian
Personal Narrative
The Deepest Readers Do Not Make the Best Detectives
Patrick Cottrell’s "Afternoon Hours of a Hermit" forges a literary universe of mirrors, doublings, and mystery
Apr 23 - Evander James Reyes
interviews
The Fragile Pride of the Displaced New Englander
Two poems by Abbie Kiefer
Apr 22 - Abbie Kiefer
poetry
7 Novels That Let India’s Smaller Towns Shine
From the Himalayas to rural Madhya Pradesh, these stories explore life outside bustling metropoles
Apr 22 - Sneha Pathak
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