Electric Literature
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Writing New York City
Author Kristopher Jansma talks to Electric Literature about his new novel, Why We Came to the City, and writing about the greatest city on Earth: I realized what I can do is write about the New York I know. I…
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Books vs. Extremism
At Electric Literature, Je Banach explores how literary discourse can “break down barriers” in a time of political extremism: Literary discourse, the active process of carefully considering the words and ideas of others and then speaking thoughtfully and critically about them—let…
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Mind a Sheer Blank, White Page so Silencing
Over at Electric Literature, Ingrid Rojas Contreras draws us pictures tracking writing productivity output and tracking of her tracking of her writing productivity output and tracking of her tracking of her tracking of her… immense anxiety while not writing.
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The Invisible Lower Class
Raymond Carver and other “Kmart realists” championed the working class in high-brow literary fiction. But has the realism of the 99% gone out of style? Electric Literature explores.
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The Prose and Poetry of Idra Novey
I find the more furtively I move between genres, the more I surprise myself as a writer. Moving between genres, you carry curious things over and also carry them away. I like the gray areas between genres—prose that reads like…
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The Benefits of Criticism
Megha Majumdar interviews A. O. Scott for Electric Literature. In addition to discussing Scott’s debut book Better Living Through Criticism, the two explore why criticism matters in a time when American anti-intellectualism “is virtually our civic religion.”
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Helle Helle’s Brilliant Brilliant Novel
So I re-read the opening, then the end once more. I looked at the cover. I turned it over to contemplate what’s already been said about it. I set the book down on the bench next to me and smiled.…
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A Story that’s Good on Paper
At Electric Literature, author Rachel Cantor discusses her second novel, Good on Paper, including the 15-year process of condensing her characters’ wide world into a story about adventure and translation.
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This Week in Short Fiction
When you think of romance, you probably think Romeo and Juliet, Pride and Prejudice, Gone With the Wind, Wuthering Heights—or anything by Nicholas Sparks if you’re into more modern fare. These famous love stories, spread across centuries, have one thing…
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Metaphor in Retrograde
Is your big break finally coming? Will you get that novel finished? Are you about to be struck over the head with a mallet of inspiration? All of these questions answered and more, in your February 2016 writer’s horoscope.
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A Future of Forbidden Books
At Electric Literature, Lydia Pine examines dystopian and sci-fi works of fiction that offer a glimpse of what bookshelves and libraries might look like in the future: In Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Ayn Rand’s Anthem, books-on-bookshelves is actually a forbidden scenario. Even in…
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Wonderfully Witchy
A totally fantastic new comic of literary witches over at Electric Literature. Let your day get a bit magical.