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George R. R. Martin Talks about the Game of Thrones Spin-off Shows
May 15 - Lincoln Michel

More Thoughts about Worldbuilding and Food
May 12 - Lincoln Michel

April Fiction Prompts Culled from the News
Apr 25 - Lincoln Michel

Five Disturbing Stories About Bunnies
Apr 14 - Lincoln Michel

Against Worldbuilding
Apr 6 - Lincoln Michel

9 Mind-Blowing Facts about Your Favorite Books
Apr 1 - Lincoln Michel

March Fiction Prompts Culled from the News
Mar 24 - Lincoln Michel

18 (More) Amazing Novels You Can Read in a Day
Mar 14 - Lincoln Michel

Late to the Party: Lorrie Moore’s Self-Help
Mar 6 - Lincoln Michel

February Fiction Prompts Culled from the News
Feb 24 - Lincoln Michel

Donald Trump Is Collecting Blurbs
Jan 25 - Lincoln Michel

Lit Mag Submissions 101: How, When, and Where to Send Your Work
Dec 1 - Lincoln Michel

Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature (No, This Headline Is Not a Joke)
Oct 13 - Lincoln Michel

We May Know Who Ferrante Is, But Have We Learned Anything?
Oct 3 - Lincoln Michel

Yes, Writing Is a Job (Even if it Doesn’t Pay Well)
Sep 21 - Lincoln Michel

Who Will Win the Nobel Prize? Place Your Bets!
Sep 19 - Lincoln Michel

Here Is the 2016 National Book Award Fiction Longlist!
Sep 15 - Lincoln Michel

Data Analysis of Novels Reveals… Nothing New
Jul 7 - Lincoln Michel

Everything You Wanted to Know about Book Sales (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Jun 30 - Lincoln Michel

What Writers Earn Money?
Jun 7 - Lincoln Michel

Can Anyone Stop J.K. Rowling From George Lucas-ing Harry Potter?
May 5 - Lincoln Michel

Should Literary Awards Do More to Recognize Short Stories?
Apr 19 - Lincoln Michel

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen Wins the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Apr 18 - Lincoln Michel

Victor LaValle Talks About Horror Fiction, Imaginative Illiteracy, and Lovecraft’s Complicated Legacy
Apr 8 - Lincoln Michel

When Popular Fiction Isn’t Popular: Genre, Literary, and the Myths of Popularity
Apr 2 - Lincoln Michel

Play Electric Literature’s AWP Bingo
Mar 29 - Lincoln Michel

Why Do We Care Who the “Real” Elena Ferrante Is?
Mar 14 - Lincoln Michel

Elena Ferrante and Orhan Pamuk among Man Booker International 2016 Longlist Authors
Mar 10 - Lincoln Michel

George R. R.
Mar 10 - Lincoln Michel

Here Is the 2016 Baileys Prize Longlist
Mar 8 - Lincoln Michel

MFA vs. CPU: Another MFA Article Misses the Bigger Picture
Mar 7 - Lincoln Michel

Stephen King Confirms Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey for The Dark Tower Adaptation
Mar 1 - Lincoln Michel

Here Are the 2015 Nebula Award Nominees
Feb 22 - Lincoln Michel

Harper Lee Has Passed Away at Age 89
Feb 19 - Lincoln Michel

Scribd Puts Another Nail in the Coffin of “Netflix for Books”
Feb 18 - Lincoln Michel

Read Octavia E. Butler’s Inspiring Message to Herself
Feb 2 - Lincoln Michel

Ursula K. Le Guin Writes Letter about Ammon Bundy’s “Right-Wing Loonybirds” Oregon Occupation
Jan 19 - Lincoln Michel

David Bowie’s 100 Favorite Books
Jan 11 - Lincoln Michel

The One Underlying Substance of All Story Structure Models: Bullshit
Jan 7 - Lincoln Michel

The 10 Best British Novels (According to the Rest of the World)
Dec 8 - Lincoln Michel

October Fiction Prompts Culled from the News
Oct 26 - Lincoln Michel

Marlon James Wins 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings
Oct 13 - Lincoln Michel

Here Are This Year’s 5 Under 35 Honorees
Sep 30 - Lincoln Michel

Here Are the 2015 Kirkus Prize Finalists
Sep 30 - Lincoln Michel

Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ben Lerner Awarded MacArthur Genius Grants
Sep 29 - Lincoln Michel

Here Is the National Book Award Longlist in Fiction
Sep 17 - Lincoln Michel

Stretch Out Your Plot Twists with Our “Yoga for Writers” Poster
Sep 16 - Lincoln Michel

Man Booker Shortlist Announced
Sep 15 - Lincoln Michel

Alternative Titles for Morrissey’s Debut Novel
Aug 24 - Lincoln Michel

Introducing Our Newest Column: New Suns by Monica Byrne
Aug 3 - Lincoln Michel

Okey-Panky Will Open for Submissions on August 1st
Jul 24 - Lincoln Michel

July Fiction Prompts Culled from the News
Jul 23 - Lincoln Michel

After Harper Lee’s Watchman, Publishers Announce Flurry of Discovered Sequels
Jul 14 - Lincoln Michel

Are Romance and Erotica Fans Destroying Netflix for Books? Scribd To Cut Tons of Titles
Jul 1 - Lincoln Michel

True Detective’s Lessons on How Not to Write Dialogue
Jun 30 - Lincoln Michel

June Fiction Prompts Culled from the News
Jun 26 - Lincoln Michel

New Game of Thrones Book Coming This Year… But It’s a Coloring Book
Jun 9 - Lincoln Michel

Ursula K. Le Guin: “I Keep Asking You Not to Buy Books from Amazon”
Jun 2 - Lincoln Michel

May Fiction Prompts Culled from the News
May 28 - Lincoln Michel

Game of Thrones Casting Call Hints at New Characters
May 27 - Lincoln Michel

Scorpions? In My Bookshelf? It’s More Likely Than You Think
May 19 - Lincoln Michel

Is It Time for Literary Magazines to Rethink the Slush?
May 18 - Lincoln Michel

Saeed Jones and Rob Spillman Among Winners of the 2015 PEN Literary Awards
May 13 - Lincoln Michel

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Wins Arthur C. Clarke Award
May 6 - Lincoln Michel

Lev Grossman’s The Magicians Picked Up By SyFy Channel
May 4 - Lincoln Michel

Spiegelman, Bechdel, and Gaiman Among Those Replacing PEN 6 After Charlie Hebdo Protest
May 4 - Lincoln Michel

Stephen King Wins Edgar Award for Best Novel for Mr. Mercedes
Apr 30 - Lincoln Michel

The Most Overused Short Story Titles
Apr 22 - Lincoln Michel

Anthony Doerr Wins Pulitzer Prize for All the Light We Cannot See
Apr 20 - Lincoln Michel

The Genius of Tolkien’s Original The Hobbit Dust Jacket
Apr 20 - Lincoln Michel

Haruki Murakami and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Make TIME’s 100 Most Influential People
Apr 16 - Lincoln Michel

INFOGRAPHIC: How To Name Your Big Important Novel
Apr 13 - Lincoln Michel

How To Name Your Big Important Novel
Apr 13 - Lincoln Michel

This AWP Play Electric Literature AWP Bingo
Apr 7 - Lincoln Michel

BuzzFeed Launches Emerging Writers Fellowship: An Interview with Literary Editor Saeed Jones
Apr 2 - Lincoln Michel

George R. R. Martin Has “Narrative Breakthrough” after Binge Watching LOST
Apr 1 - Lincoln Michel

George R.R. Martin Will Stop Writing for Game of Thrones to finish The Winds of Winter
Mar 30 - Lincoln Michel

Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer Dies at Age 83
Mar 27 - Lincoln Michel

Stephen King to Maine’s Governor LaPage: “Man Up and Apologize.”
Mar 24 - Lincoln Michel

Do you have an opinion about the new Jonathan Franzen covers?
Mar 20 - Lincoln Michel

VIDEO: Kim Gordon in Conversation with Carrie Brownstein
Mar 18 - Lincoln Michel

Spanish Scientists Have Found the Remains of Miguel de Cervantes
Mar 17 - Lincoln Michel

There’s No Such Thing as a Fake Reader
Mar 16 - Lincoln Michel

Beloved Fantasy Author Terry Pratchett Has Passed Away at Age 66
Mar 12 - Lincoln Michel

George R. R. Martin Backs Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven for Hugos
Mar 11 - Lincoln Michel

Game of Totes: Canvas Is Coming
Mar 10 - Lincoln Michel

The Last Holdouts of the Genre Wars: on Kazuo Ishiguro, Ursula K. Le Guin, and the Misuse of Labels
Mar 9 - Lincoln Michel

VIDEO: Lydia Davis’s Advice to Young Writers
Feb 24 - Lincoln Michel

Birdman vs. Boyhood: The Oscar Debate’s Classic Aesthetic Divide
Feb 23 - Lincoln Michel

The 2014 Nebula Awards Nominees
Feb 20 - Lincoln Michel

Ewan McGregor to Adapt Philip Roth’s American Pastoral
Feb 19 - Lincoln Michel

Artist Turns Books into Crystallized Fossils
Feb 19 - Lincoln Michel

Recently Discovered Dr. Seuss Book Coming This Summer
Feb 18 - Lincoln Michel

Roald Dahl’s Moving Pro-Vaccination Appeal
Feb 10 - Lincoln Michel

The 2015 Folio Prize Shortlist
Feb 9 - Lincoln Michel

George R. R. Martin Originally Planned a Love Triangle Between Arya, Jon, and Tyrion
Feb 6 - Lincoln Michel

Should We Hold the Horses on the Harper Lee Celebration?
Feb 4 - Lincoln Michel

Stone Animals
Feb 4 - Kelly Link

The Best (and Worst) Twitter Jokes about Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Sequel
Feb 3 - Lincoln Michel

Harper Lee to Publish a Sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird
Feb 3 - Lincoln Michel

Writers: Submit to the 2015 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize judged by Karen Russell
Feb 3 - Lincoln Michel

A Book Cover that Judges You Back
Feb 2 - Lincoln Michel

January Fiction Prompts Culled from the News
Jan 30 - Lincoln Michel

Burrito Realism: Neil Gaiman, Aziz Ansari, Amy Tan, and Jeffrey Eugenides join Chipotle’s literary…
Jan 29 - Lincoln Michel

What’s Wrong with Only Reading Half a Book?
Jan 29 - Lincoln Michel

VIDEO: Patti Smith and David Lynch Discuss Their Creative Processes
Jan 27 - Lincoln Michel

2015 Edgar Award Finalists for Mystery Writing Announced
Jan 21 - Lincoln Michel

H.P. Lovecraft Beer to Drive Craft Beer Fans to Utter Madness
Jan 20 - Lincoln Michel

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists for 2014
Jan 20 - Lincoln Michel

Idris Elba Making Trilogy about Edgar Allan Poe Fighting the Devil
Jan 19 - Lincoln Michel

INFOGRAPHIC: What age do writers publish their most famous works?
Jan 15 - Lincoln Michel

Science Fiction Legend Ray Bradbury’s House Torn Down
Jan 14 - Lincoln Michel

Macmillian Is the Latest Big 5 to Join Oyster and Scribd
Jan 14 - Lincoln Michel

Charlie Hebdo and the Question of Comedy Punching Up or Down
Jan 13 - Lincoln Michel

New Charlie Hebdo Cover: “All Is Forgiven”
Jan 13 - Lincoln Michel

L.A. Traffic Sign Hacked to Say “Read a Fucking Book”
Jan 10 - Lincoln Michel

Electric Literature Seeks an Editorial Intern for the Winter/Spring Semester
Jan 9 - Lincoln Michel

Charlie Hebdo to publish 1 million copies so that “stupidity will not win”
Jan 8 - Lincoln Michel

You’re Invited: Okey-Panky Launch Party Tonight
Jan 8 - Lincoln Michel

Salman Rushdie: “I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire”
Jan 7 - Lincoln Michel

Haruki Murakami to Pen Advice Column for Fans
Jan 7 - Lincoln Michel

Mark Zuckerberg Aims to Start World’s Largest Bookclub on Facebook
Jan 4 - Lincoln Michel

The Most Popular Electric Literature Articles of 2014
Jan 1 - Lincoln Michel

December Fiction Prompts Culled from the News
Dec 29 - Lincoln Michel

The Lord of the Rings Mythology Explained in 5 Minutes
Dec 27 - Lincoln Michel

Neil Gaiman reads “A Christmas Carol” for Christmas
Dec 24 - Lincoln Michel

INFOGRAPHIC: How to Name Your Lit Mag
Dec 22 - Lincoln Michel

George R. R. Martin Calls Out “Corporate Cowardice” of Sony Canceling The Interview
Dec 19 - Lincoln Michel

The Folio Prize 80 Book Loooong List Has Been Announced
Dec 15 - Lincoln Michel

Electric Literature’s 25 Best Story Collections of 2014
Dec 11 - Lincoln Michel

Electric Literature’s 25 Best Novels of 2014
Dec 9 - Lincoln Michel

J. K. Rowling’s X-Mas Present Is New Harry Potter Fiction
Dec 6 - Lincoln Michel

Was 2014 the Year of the Debut?
Dec 3 - Lincoln Michel

INFOGRAPHIC: The Most Popular Books of All Time
Dec 2 - Lincoln Michel

CYBER MONDAY: get 25% off everything in our store
Dec 1 - Lincoln Michel

President Obama’s Indie Bookstore Haul
Dec 1 - Lincoln Michel

November Fiction Prompts Culled from the News
Nov 28 - Lincoln Michel

VIDEO: Neil Gaiman Reads “Bad Neil Gaiman” Stories
Nov 28 - Lincoln Michel

Marilynne Robinson Talks to Bill Moyers about Faith, Capitalism, and Literature
Nov 25 - Lincoln Michel

VIDEO: Toni Morrison Talks to Stephen Colbert
Nov 21 - Lincoln Michel

Watch Ursula K. Le Guin’s Amazing NBA Acceptance Speech
Nov 20 - Lincoln Michel

Jeff VanderMeer Explains How to Wash a Mouse in the Southern Reach
Nov 18 - Lincoln Michel

Here’s a Bunch of Awesome Book Covers from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Series
Nov 14 - Lincoln Michel

Amazon and Hachette End Dispute
Nov 13 - Lincoln Michel

VIDEO: Bryan Cranston Reading From You Have to F**king Eat
Nov 12 - Lincoln Michel

Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Being Adapted for HBO by Jonathan Nolan
Nov 10 - Lincoln Michel

Taylor Swift and the Myth of the Mean Greedy Artist
Nov 7 - Lincoln Michel

A Series of Unfortunate Events to Become a Netflix Show
Nov 5 - Lincoln Michel

Knopf to Publish Collection by Debut Author Tom Hanks
Nov 3 - Lincoln Michel

Monster of Fine Arts Writing Advice
Oct 31 - Lincoln Michel

VIDEO: George R. R. Martin Talks Dragons, Maps, and Game of Thrones
Oct 28 - Lincoln Michel

A Social Media Horror Film
Oct 26 - Lincoln Michel

Halloween Fiction Prompts Culled from the News
Oct 24 - Lincoln Michel

Amazon Signs Deal with Big 5 Publisher (No, Not Hachette)
Oct 21 - Lincoln Michel

INFOGRAPHIC: A Literary Atlas of Ireland
Oct 21 - Lincoln Michel

VIDEO: How Literature Can Improve Your Life
Oct 16 - Lincoln Michel

Richard Flanagan Is the Winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize
Oct 14 - Lincoln Michel

Literature Isn’t Native Advertising. But What If It Was?
Oct 10 - Lincoln Michel

From Hogwarts to West Egg: 50 Fictional Destinations You Can Actually Visit
Oct 10 - Lincoln Michel

French Novelist Patrick Modiano Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Oct 9 - Lincoln Michel

Twin Peaks will be back in 2016 on Showtime.
Oct 6 - Lincoln Michel

Will Haruki Murakami Win This Year’s Nobel Prize?
Oct 6 - Lincoln Michel

Paperbacks and hardcovers still outselling e-books
Oct 4 - Lincoln Michel

September Fiction Prompts Culled from the News
Sep 30 - Lincoln Michel

Test your reading speed with this interactive infographic
Sep 30 - Lincoln Michel

Selected Shorts Reveals Details for 2015 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize
Sep 26 - Lincoln Michel

COMIC: Ban This Book
Sep 25 - Lincoln Michel

Books are weapons in the war of ideas
Sep 24 - Lincoln Michel

VIDEO: Lydia Davis Reads “Goodbye Louise”
Sep 22 - Lincoln Michel

COMIC: The Entirety of Harry Potter in One Illustration
Sep 16 - Lincoln Michel

VIDEO: Catherine Lacey Talks to Isaac Fitzgerald and Sasha Frere-Jones
Sep 16 - Lincoln Michel

10 Books That Stayed With Me (That You Maybe Haven’t Read)
Sep 15 - Lincoln Michel

McDonald’s India Includes Books in Happy Meals Instead of Toys
Sep 14 - Lincoln Michel

The Kids Are Alright: Survey Says Millennials Read More than Other Generations
Sep 12 - Lincoln Michel

INFOGRAPHIC: How Long Does It Take to Read Popular Books?
Sep 12 - Lincoln Michel

An Interactive Literary Genre Map
Sep 9 - Lincoln Michel

Tom Bissell on Trying to Edit William T. Vollmann
Sep 5 - Lincoln Michel

17 Brilliant Short Novels You Can Read in a Sitting
Sep 4 - Lincoln Michel

We’re Co-Throwing a Party! September 15th in Brooklyn
Sep 2 - Lincoln Michel

August Fiction Prompts Culled from the News
Aug 29 - Lincoln Michel

Infinite Jest in Lego Form
Aug 28 - Lincoln Michel

VIDEO: What Does Neil Gaiman See When He Looks at the Real World?
Aug 27 - Lincoln Michel

VIDEO: How Fiction Can Change Reality
Aug 26 - Lincoln Michel

Drawing H.P. Lovecraft One Monster at a Time
Aug 21 - Lincoln Michel

INFOGRAPHIC: The History of Print
Aug 21 - Lincoln Michel

A Jewish Literary Map of NYC
Aug 19 - Lincoln Michel

Amazon vs. Hachette: A Reading List to Get You Caught Up
Aug 17 - Lincoln Michel

New Murakami Means a New Round of Murakami Bingo
Aug 15 - Lincoln Michel

VIDEO: Author Lee Child Weighs in on Amazon
Aug 14 - Lincoln Michel

Amazon Asks the Internet to Spam Hachette
Aug 9 - Lincoln Michel

Now Here’s A Bunch of Science Fiction Books with Dogs on the Cover
Aug 4 - Lincoln Michel

Here’s a Bunch of Science Fiction Books with Cats on the Cover
Aug 2 - Lincoln Michel

The Twin Peaks Project
Jul 29 - Lincoln Michel

COMIC: Styles of Writing
Jul 29 - Lincoln Michel

More Fiction Prompts Culled from the News
Jul 28 - Lincoln Michel

Supernatural Collective Nouns
Jul 27 - Lincoln Michel

#WorkingOnMyNovel
Jul 25 - Lincoln Michel

CRAFT THOUGHTS: Why You Should Edit As You Write
Jul 24 - Lincoln Michel

“A Country Doctor” — the Weirdest and Thus Best Franz Kafka Short Film
Jul 22 - Lincoln Michel

One-Star Reviews of Classic Novels
Jul 20 - Lincoln Michel

INFOGRAPHIC: Word Counts of Famous Books
Jul 18 - Lincoln Michel

What Jane Austen Looked Like According to Forensic Science
Jul 14 - Lincoln Michel

The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People
Jul 11 - Lincoln Michel

BOOK TRAILER: The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman
Jul 8 - Lincoln Michel

J.K. Rowling Just Published a New Harry Potter Story
Jul 8 - Lincoln Michel

COMIC: Creative Thinking
Jul 8 - Lincoln Michel

You Can Win a Little Free Library from Riverhead Books
Jul 7 - Lincoln Michel

Map of the City Where Every Novel Takes Place
Jul 5 - Lincoln Michel

London Benches as Classic Books
Jul 4 - Lincoln Michel

VIDEO: Katherine Faw Morris talks with Deniro Farrar and Isaac Fitzgerald
Jul 2 - Lincoln Michel

Imaginary Map of the City Where Every Movie Takes Place
Jul 2 - Lincoln Michel

A Novel for Every Remaining World Cup Team
Jun 28 - Lincoln Michel

AUDIO: Rare David Foster Wallace Interview Found
Jun 25 - Lincoln Michel

Book Sales in Real Time
Jun 25 - Lincoln Michel

Ten Books that Have Gone to the Dogs
Jun 24 - Lincoln Michel

New Haruki Murakami Novel Comes with Stickers
Jun 20 - Lincoln Michel

Mitchell S. Jackson and Kiese Laymon Discuss Literature, Race, and Publishing Their First Books
Jun 20 - Lincoln Michel

Short Story Prompts Culled from the News
Jun 19 - Lincoln Michel

Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Public Domain
Jun 17 - Lincoln Michel

Aerial Circus Italo Calvino in Austin, TX
Jun 16 - Lincoln Michel

VIDEO: About Haruki Murakami
Jun 15 - Lincoln Michel

INFOGRAPHIC: The Chemistry of Book Smells
Jun 12 - Lincoln Michel

The Turing Test for Thinking Machines Has Been Passed
Jun 9 - Lincoln Michel

Brooklyn Book Launch Party for Courtney Maum This Thursday, June 12th
Jun 9 - Lincoln Michel

INFOGRAPHIC: Game of Books, How A Song of Ice and Fire Stacks Up
Jun 9 - Lincoln Michel

INFOGRAPHIC: How Letters Are Distributed in English Words
Jun 7 - Lincoln Michel

If Strangers Talked to Everybody like They Talk to Writers
Jun 6 - Lincoln Michel

Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Trilogy Being Adapted by Darren Aronofsky for HBO
Jun 5 - Lincoln Michel

COMIC: Conflicts in Literature
Jun 5 - Lincoln Michel

“My Snuggle” and Other Sequels to Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Intentional Bestseller
Jun 3 - Lincoln Michel

Walt Whitman Illustrated
Jun 1 - Lincoln Michel

Two Days Left to Submit!
May 30 - Lincoln Michel

ANIMATED SENTENCE: Stealth by Sonallah Ibrahim
May 29 - Lincoln Michel

Do YOU Know How To Open a New Book?
May 27 - Lincoln Michel

Why Your Manuscript Is Being Returned
May 20 - Lincoln Michel

The Skin Thing
Feb 19 - Adrian Van Young
