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Using Absurdity to Expose the Faulty, Inhumane Logic of Our World
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (480+ words) I sat down with Khong to talk about absurdity as a lens, identity and belonging, and the complicated, often contradictory ways we connect with one another. Greg Mania: One thing I love about My Dear You is how the stories…...
A Snow Globe Theory of the Short Story
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (1077+ words) Years pass of course. Students come and go, the so-called real world imposes its directives and preferences, and somewhere along the way too often a tacit agreement is entered, understandably so perhaps, an acquiesce, a surrender where essentially the same…...
A Satire That Captures the Absurdity of Being a Writer in Hollywood
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (865+ words) I spent two years trying to sell TV shows in Los Angeles. Before my first pitch, I asked my agent if I should dress casually or formally. She told me to dress "NYC cool," which was absolutely not one of…...
Electric Literature Belongs to All of Us
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (269+ words) I wish we lived in a country where there was more federal, state, and organizational support for the arts. Maybe one day we will. In the meantime, it's on all of us to step up. Last year, you did. Individual donations…...
9 Little Odysseys That Don't Go Very Far, and That's the Whole Point
1+ week, 1+ day ago (135+ words) We need to raise $35, 000 by April 15 to keep the lights on, and time is running out. Help us reach the next milestone$15, 000 by Wednesdayby donating now. Kathleen Boland's "Scavengers" is a madcap adventure probing questions of reinvention, the wilderness, and…...
Electric Lit's Smaller Numbers Tell a Larger Story
1+ week, 6+ day ago (267+ words) We need to raise $35, 000 by April 15 to keep the lights on, and time is running out. Help us reach the next milestone$10, 000 by Mondayby donating now. In my first letter as Electric Literature's incoming Director of Operations and Fiction Editor,…...
A Goat Farmer Is Only as Vulnerable as Her Goats
2+ week, 2+ day ago (122+ words) " Ben Shattuck Author of The History of Sound We need to raise $35, 000 by April 15 to keep the lights on, and time is running out. Help us reach the next milestone$7, 500 by Fridayby donating now. This content is password-protected. To view…...
During the Worst of Times, Behave Badly
2+ week, 3+ day ago (493+ words) I sat down with Andrew in a quiet Brooklyn caf" to discuss sex, drugs, and lockdown; the stickiness of writing about relationship dynamics; and how narrative instability might conquer AI." SBJ: The form kind of echoes the content, mimicking a…...
Help Us Crown Literature's Ultimate Cad
2+ week, 6+ day ago (340+ words) Every March, we gather for the time-honored literary tradition of trying to make a pun out of March Madness. Last year, you helped us decide the best campus novel ever written in our March Gradness bracket. The year before, March…...
Both/And Is a Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award!
3+ week, 1+ day ago (177+ words) We've got some exciting news! Both/And: Essays By Trans and Gender Nonconforming Writers of Color, edited by incoming Executive Director and Publisher Denne Michele Norris, is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in transgender non-fiction. This book, the…...