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Charlie Jane Anders Recommends 5 Books That Aren’t By Men
The author of “The City in the Middle of the Night” is here to help you read more women → Read More
If You Don’t Have a Novel In You, Maybe You Have a Memoir
Ten questions about teaching writing with Ryan Britt, author of “Luke Skywalker Can’t Read” → Read More
Check Out Our Favorite Tattoos Inspired by Books –
How much do you love your favorite book? Do you love it enough to get an image or passage from it permanently inked on your skin? Well, judging from the response to our #ElectricLitInk hashtag: yeah… → Read More
Kayla Rae Whitaker Thinks You Should Turn Off Your Phone to Write
I n our monthly series Can Writing Be Taught? we partner with Catapult to ask their course instructors all our burning questions about the process of teaching writing. This month we’re talking to… → Read More
Maryse Meijer Thinks You Should Track Down These Books by Women
Wandering into a used bookstore with no particular agenda, just to browse the shelves and piles, is one of the most romantic pastimes in existence. But you know what’s more satisfying? Wandering into… → Read More
What to Read Instead of Watching the Super Bowl –
I n 2016, Colin Kaepernick decided that he was “not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.” The backup quarterback from the San… → Read More
R.O. Kwon Picks Five Books By Women You Should Read
I f you didn’t hear about R.O. Kwon when her debut novel The Incendiaries blew up last year, you may know her from the latest installment of her “books by women and nonbinary authors of color to read… → Read More
7 Books by Women about 1950s Gender Dynamics –
There are some things that stay with us, sights and sounds from our childhood, places and moods. They may be nothing, but often return in our writing. Be it a color we often use that’s the same as… → Read More
Recommended Reading Seeks Volunteer Readers –
Calling all fiction lovers! Electric Literature is looking for new manuscript readers to join our editorial team. Recommended Reading is the weekly fiction magazine of Electric Literature, an… → Read More
Spend Two Weeks in Banff with Electric Literature –
Are you a writer of memoir or autofiction? Do you think staring at an incredibly beautiful mountain would help your work? Well, then you’re in luck, because Electric Literature and the Banff Centre… → Read More
Min Jin Lee Recommends 5 Books By Women –
Like many of the best generational novels (sorry, Gabriel García Márquez), Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko has women at its center. And Lee is a celebrated woman author herself: the recipient of a Guggenheim… → Read More
Buy a Copy of Fahrenheit-451 That Can Only Be Read If It’s on Fire
Graphic design studio Super Terrain’s edition of Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi classic Fahrenheit-451 took the internet by storm, thanks to a video showing how its all-black pages become readable text when… → Read More
5 Incredible Books by Women That Influenced Carmen Maria Machado
Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties was shortlisted for a National Book Award despite being a debut short story collection—and as soon as you read her first story, “The Husband Stitch,”… → Read More
8 Books About Women and Addiction That Are at Least as Good as Bukowski
I n literature, the addiction narrative has become a genre unto itself. Populated by a variety of counterculture antiheroes, the addict narrative has given birth to a range of admired weirdos… → Read More
Write Your Own Touching Holiday Story With Our Handy Chart
Use the letters of your name to generate a can’t-miss sentimental narrative → Read More
Electric Lit’s 20 Best Novels of 2018 –
D o books still matter in a year when everything seems to be falling apart? Well, Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers, says yes. “I write best angry. Don’t you?” she wrote in an essay for… → Read More
Electric Lit’s 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2018
Short story collections sometimes get treated as training wheels for novels, as if novel-writing is the true endpoint of fiction and short stories are just the practice scales you do while honing… → Read More
Guy Gunaratne Recommends Five Books by Non-Male Authors
A lot of people write about London, but nobody writes about London the way Guy Gunaratne writes about London. His book In Our Mad and Furious City, longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize, is an… → Read More
Why Was Norah Lange Forgotten? –
First published in 1950, Norah Lange’s People in the Room (Personas en la sala) is an intimate, intricate experimental novel that, despite Lange’s place at the center of the avant-garde literary… → Read More
A Reading List on Being a Black Man in Contemporary America
I was given the task of curating, yeah it’s that fancy, a reading list of books that portray black men in contemporary America in complex and nuanced ways — seeing as to how the majority of books… → Read More