Short Revolution
Great novels also experiment and innovate, but a short story can make a never-before-seen formal leap and then peace out, before you’re even sure what’s happened. At Electric Literature, Rebecca…
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Jessie Glenn is an essayist primarily focused on parenting and taboo. Their exposé about MasterChef was "Best of 2018" in Salon Magazine. They’ve also had essays in NYT Modern Love, Washington Post, Cleaver, Toronto Star, and elsewhere. They are currently writing a memoir. Glenn teaches book publicity at Portland State University in the Master’s of Publishing Program. Jessie and spouse have a blended family with five children.
A Very Good Suggestion
Elisa Abatsis took our advice and wrote like a motherfucker—head over to McSweeney’s to see what the results have been.
What’s in a Name?
But as writers, what are we supposed to do if we have a super common name? Do we get a pen name? Do we find an SEO expert? Do we…
A Major Poet of Quiet
Keith Waldrop is a quiet major poet, a major poet of quiet. His accomplishment is difficult to describe because his work refuses, in Bartleby-like fashion, the twin traps of impassivity…
Learning the Special Way
…one day she offered me an even better, bigger bribe: If I mastered all my writing skills and got up to speed on my classwork, I could write a play,…
The Others
While Lani’s sole purpose in the book seemed to be a genderqueer Jiminy Cricket, pulling the wool back from Claire’s incredibly naïve eyes, they allowed me to look past the…
All About Eva
She’s black, but not local, this new colleague who wears her boots and jeans and scarf with a bohemian aplomb that causes the others to ask her where she shops.…
DIY Presidents
I believe in an activated, alkalized, adaptogenic, artisanal America, and I’m glad that I can count on your vote in this, that most authentic of experiences, the American Presidential Primary.…
Literary Misguidelines
If you’re planning on submitting your manuscript to a literary agency, you might want to read Marcy Campbell’s updated guidelines over at Electric Literature first.
Sound Takes: Until I Live & Rumpus Video Premiere
Featuring an exclusive video premiere from The National Parks and a review of their latest album Until I Die.
Consider the Weather
These are not stories about the weather, these are stories about life and death. Over at the Ploughshares blog, E.V. De Cleyre considers the importance of weather in the works of…
A Crucial Conversation with the Self
For a black woman in a white world, a conversation with the self is crucial: for when she walks through that often-unwelcoming world she is subjected to confining perceptions of…