The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Michael Seidlinger
The Publisher-in-Chief of Civil Coping Mechanisms and Book Reviews Editor for Electric Literature talks about his newest novel, The Strangest.
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An Editor’s High-Priced Advice
Submission fees irk writers because they often prey on novice writers without the connections to bypass slush piles. Narrative Magazine is one of the worst offenders, with a fee of $23,…
Star Words
Ryan Britt provides a list of non-Star Wars books for Star Wars fans to read. The list includes books by authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, J.K. Rowling, and Carrie Fisher.…
America’s “Narrow” Reading Habits
At Electric Literature, Joshua Lockwood interviews PANK‘s founding editor M. Bartley Seigel about the origins of PANK, which was sold in November and will be under new management by the end of the year. In…
Feminism for All
My own definition of a feminist is a man or a woman who says, ‘Yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we…
Voldemort vs. Trump
J.K. Rowling has recently found herself defending her Harry Potter series’ character Voldemort against comparisons to Donald Trump. At Electric Literature, however, Julia Tolo points out the similarities between the two:…
Part Cat, Part Owl
Margaret Atwood will be writing a new comic series for Dark Horse Comics called Angel Catbird, a story about a hero who is part cat, part owl due to genetic splicing.…
The Debut Poets of 2015
Over at Lit Hub, some of the most notable poetry debuts of this past year talk about what it was like to release their first collections.
Welcome to the Future of Reading
Wally Lamb’s forthcoming novel is being published exclusively as an app. Yes, you read that correctly. More on Electric Literature.
Literary Fiction is Popular Fiction
Some authors feel insecure about writing genre fiction and consider literature a luxury brand. Genre fiction, after all, is supposed to be the goose that lays golden eggs and includes…
A Riptide in the Human Mind
What is it to read Alice, a century and a half after its creation, in the era of Guantánamo? For me, it is to understand ‘nonsense’ not as children’s fantasy…
Video Games as Poetry
Space in video games is not, strictly speaking, physical. It’s made of pixels on a screen, and the movement of objects within it are governed by the algorithms of its…