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Ishiguro’s Deliberate Process

Elysha Chang interviews Kazuo Ishiguro for Electric Literature. The two primarily discuss the process and planning that went into Ishiguro’s new release The Buried Giant. Ishiguro says: When I’m planning the project that…

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This Week in Short Fiction

The gamer story. Regardless of its iteration—D&D, Commodore 64, Nintendo, X Box, LARP—there is the hero, and there is the rest of the gang, subjugated as sidekicks and underlings. The…

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Missing Bones Found

Back in 2012, Electric Literature featured a piece about the search for the remains of Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote. Now scientists in Spain say they’ve found his…

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Fragility of Antiquity

Adam Flemming Petty writes over on Electric Literature about the literature of ruins: This perception of antiquities as fragile rather than permanent, and all the more affecting for their fragility,…

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What Demands Retelling

I think what demands telling and retelling and re-retelling is this: any story in which complicated grief and desperate sadness is the main character . . . Loss is really…

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Skipping Tracks

Laura van den Berg gifts us a playlist over at Electric Literature, composed of songs she listened to while writing Find Me; among other gems, she’s into Grizzly Bear, Hot…

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Live Long and Prosper Writing

Sticking a grade-schooler in front of Star Trek might lead to a brief obsession with spandex, but with me it also meant absorbing tons of non-grade school words. From “purview”…

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Sipping Dandelion Wine

Henry Stewart waxes nostalgic on Ray Bradbury for Electric Literature—he points at coming of age, the lessons we learn, and how the whole of life can be found in The…

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The Melancholy of Age

For Electric Literature, Henry Stewart examines the coming of age stories of Ray Bradbury. In addition to comparing Bradbury’s “boy’s boys” to characters in works by Mark Twain and James Agee,…

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Building Literary Community, Online

A new website from Electric Literature and Grove Atlantic hopes to unite the online literary universe. The Wall Street Journal reports that the website is the latest attempt by publishers…

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I Can’t Quit You

Readers stop reading a book they enjoy when they put it down and forget to come back. Readers finish books they hate when they are assigned it for book clubs…

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The Fame Game

If you are uncertain about whether you’ve made it as an author yet, you can self-check using Electric Literatures’s flow chart.

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