Adam Vitcavage
Electric Literature
Phoenix, AZ, United States
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Electric Lit’s Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021
Melissa Febos, Elissa Washuta, and Michelle Zauner top the list of 25 → Read More
Dear Hollywood, Please Adapt These New Books
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . Remakes, reboots, and sequels, oh my! There have been six Transformers films and somehow Hollywood still wants more. It’s not just the mega-blockbuster franchises that are getting milked… → Read More
The Most Anticipated Debuts of the Second Half of 2020
The year isn’t going so well but at least we can look forward to these new books → Read More
20 New Asian American Books to Read Right Now
Poetry, graphic narratives, memoirs, essay collections, and novels that are expanding the canon of AAPI literature → Read More
Get Ready for the 20 Most Anticipated Debuts of Early 2020
Clear your schedule from January through June for these books by first-time authors → Read More
The 20 Best Debuts of the Second Half of 2019
Adam Vitcavage, founder of Debutiful, recommends books by new writers → Read More
A Queer Albanian Refugee Creates a New Self in Every City
Pajtim Statovci, author of "Crossing," on writing about people who refuse to be defined by others → Read More
The Responsibilities of a Book Critic in the Era of a Trump Presidency
2019 Pulitzer-prize winner Carlos Lozada on writing about class, identity politics, and the Mueller report → Read More
20 Years After Columbine, America Is Still Letting Its Kids Die
O n April 20, 1999, a failed bombing planned by two high school seniors at Columbine High School and turned into a shooting with assault rifles changed the way we talked about school safety and guns in America. Dave Cullen was a journalist who was one of the first to arrive at the tragedy that … → Read More
The 20 Best Debut Novels of the First Half of 2019
Adam Vitcavage, founder of Debutiful, recommends literary gems by new writers → Read More
The 20 Best Debuts of the First Half of 2019
Adam Vitcavage, founder of Debutiful, recommends literary gems by new writers → Read More
Bryan Washington's Houston Is a City of Multitudes
Everyone’s experience of a city is different. It’s not a singular experience that everyone is going to share. → Read More
Finally, a Novel Centered on a Black Woman Spy –
The spy fiction canon has long been dominated by the same types of agents: suave and debonair with perfect aim. Oh, and they were nearly always straight white men. From James Bond to John le Carré’s… → Read More
Is Iceland the Most Literary Country in the World? –
Novelist and Björk collaborator Sjón on Icelandic literary history that spans millennia → Read More
How Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Is Reinventing the Sherlock Holmes Story
The co-author of ‘Mycroft and Sherlock’ isn’t interested in Holmesian pastiche that doesn’t include people of color → Read More
John Larison Fights the Toxic Cowboy Myth By Giving His Western a Female Hero
The author of ‘Whiskey When We’re Dry’ started writing about American violence after witnessing a school shooting → Read More
Patrick deWitt Wants to Write Books for People Who Don’t Read Books
The author, of ‘French Exit’, talks about his writing process → Read More
Catching Up With House Creator David Shore
After eight years of Vicodin-popping and solving medical mysteries, House went off the air with one last dramatic episode. The finale in the ground-breaking medical drama found Dr. House (Hugh Laurie) faking his death and riding off into the sunset with his cancer-stricken best friend Dr. Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard). → Read More
Cowboy Junkies: Sing In My Meadow
There’s something extremely enigmatic about Sing In My Meadow. It is the third volume in Cowboy Junkie’s Nomad Series and comes after the band has been together for 25 years. Surprisingly, the album doesn’t feel like recycled material, but instead sounds as if it would fit right in with their platinum records from early in their career. This latest release features a group of songs that weave… → Read More
Limerence, Lust, and Love: The Millions Interviews Melissa Broder
Melissa Broder was famous before you even knew who she was. In 2012, she launched the anonymous Twitter account @sosadtoday. Armed with a wry sense of sarcasm, Broder wrote poignant and irreverent words of wisdom 140 characters at a time. Now with over 600,000 followers, Broder came out publicly as the voice behind the account in … → Read More