Erin Bartnett
Electric Literature
New York, United States
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7 Books About Being Stuck in Purgatory
Whether underground or above, Hell takes many forms → Read More
The Last Thing You Need to Read About Book TikTok
All the questions you feel too old to ask, answered by someone under 25 → Read More
The Great American Baseball Novel
Emily Nemens, author of "The Cactus League" on building a human story around a sports stadium → Read More
All the Misery of Being in Your 20s, But with Jokes
Erin Somers's "Stay Up with Hugo Best" takes on millennial malaise and predatory men, but without sacrificing humor → Read More
A Death Reverberates Through Two Marriages in "Late in the Day"
Author Tessa Hadley on art, mourning, and continuing to write while the world falls apart → Read More
Great Authors' Letters to Their Long-Suffering Moms
The literary men of the canon weren't always the best sons → Read More
What If Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy Were a Teenage Steampunk Vampire Platypus?
Our favorite "Pride and Prejudice" variations imagine Darcy as a pirate, dragon tamer, AI, and more → Read More
Jen Beagin Counters the BS of Who You’re Supposed to Be in Your 20s
When I read Jen Beagin’s first novel, Pretend I’m Dead, I was coming to the realization that my twenties were not shaping up into anything pretty: grad-school dropout turned publishing-hopeful only… → Read More
14 Books to Help You Deal with Millennial Burnout –
Kick back and read a book about how tired everyone is. You deserve it. → Read More
Michael Chabon’s Advice to Young Writers: Put Away Your Phone
When Electric Literature was invited to The MacDowell Colony’s December event for Michael Chabon’s special edition book project, Bookends, I was confused. Wasn’t MacDowell a writing residency in New… → Read More
As a Writer, You’re Already Dead –
Shelley Jackson, author of “Riddance,” on the dead words that haunt her writing → Read More
Deborah Eisenberg on the Best Way to Read a Short Story Collection
Read a short story collection, and you can defy time. There are several beginnings, several middles, several endings, but no singular beginning, middle, and end. You don’t have to read the book from… → Read More
Idra Novey’s New Novel Is So Topical It’s Scary –
Serendipitous is a strange word to use for a book about a series of violent acts committed by a favored senator. But my relationship with Idra Novey’s Those Who Knew did feel serendipitous. Novey and… → Read More
11 Funny Horror Movies to Watch with the Wimp You Love
M y boyfriend jokes that we might have a problem: I like scary movies and he likes funny movies. Why, you might ask, is this a problem? Because of a compatibility analysis by the founders of OkCupid… → Read More
11 Funny Horror Movies to Watch with the Wimp You Love
M y boyfriend jokes that we might have a problem: I like scary movies and he likes funny movies. Why, you might ask, is this a problem? Because of a compatibility analysis by the founders of OkCupid (who, not for nothing, are also Harvard-grad mathematicians). This analysis determined that the longevity of a relationship can … → Read More
Long Live the Goth-esque Novel –
7 Novels to Help You Get in Touch With Your Inner Goth → Read More
‘Heartbreaker’ is a Haunting ‘80s Cult Novel about Love
Claudia Dey on bad mothers and the toxicity of gender roles → Read More
Play Along with Our Read More Women Literary Trivia
We asked these questions at our event for PEN America’s LitCrawl NYC, and now you can play along at home! → Read More
Why Buying Books Will Not Save Our Beloved Bookstores
An independent bookshop owner explains why purchases alone can’t keep small stores afloat—and what to do instead → Read More
Your Favorite Children’s Book Heroes: Where Are They Now?
Adults have failed us, so here are the children we’d like to imagine growing up to do a better job → Read More