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Electric Literatureby Miljenko Jergović20d ago
Introduction by Ellen Elias-Bursać Having left Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1993, mid-war, Miljenko Jergović settled in Zagreb, Croatia, where he lives today.
Electric Literatureby Nita Noveno23d ago
8 Memoirs That Complicate the Story of Filipino America Spanning eight decades, these writers use unconventional forms to explore migration, family, gender, grief, and belonging The first known...
Electric Literatureby Tiffany Huang24d ago
I Lost Myself When I Lost Hong Kong If returning to America was like getting on a lifeboat, why did I feel like I was drowning?
Electric Literatureby Lyndsey Croal25d ago
My Dead Husband Still Wants the Last Word The Bone Hermit It’s very inconvenient that the hermit crab has taken up residence in your bones.
Electric Literatureby Electric Literature26d ago
Emily St John Mandel Can’t Distinguish Between the Real and Surreal Anymore The author of EXIT PARTY on being discovered from slush, embracing the mess of a first draft, and putting herself in her...
Electric Literatureby Yasmin Roshanian26d ago
TAKE WHAT YOU CAN Tests the Limits of Chosen Family Naima Coster discusses friendship at the fragile intersections of postpartum identity, class disparity, and maternal grief Somewhere in France...
Electric Literatureby Chris Vanjonack27d ago
Introduction by Weston Morrow When I was young, I naively thought one city couldn’t be so different from the next. Were Seattle and Philadelphia really that distinct?
Electric Literatureby Serubiri Moses11 Sept 2026
In These Novels by African Women, Coming of Age Is Collective JUDITH NAMALA author Serubiri Moses explores stories where African girlhood bears the weight of patriarchy and history The following...
Electric Literatureby Hannah Levy10 Sept 2026
My Father Called Me His Problem Child If there had once been a rope connecting me to him, at this point in my life it had dwindled down to a thread He Was My Father by Hannah Levy When I get the...
Electric Literatureby Electric Literature10 Sept 2026
Exclusive Cover Reveal of MORE HAPPY LOVE by Joanna Pearson Two dragonflies entwined in jewel-bright symmetry reflect the interweaving desire and danger in these stories Electric Literature is...
Electric Literatureby Amulya Tadimety8 Sept 2026
A Debut Novel About Knowing Everything and Nothing Stacey Yu on emotional transference, post-grad naïveté, and the human-animal relationships that shape us in KITTEN For several years, I’ve enjoyed...
Electric Literatureby Genevieve Plunkett7 Sept 2026
Introduction by Kimberly King Parsons Anyone who has had their heart broken knows it can turn you into a desperate, tedious person: an amateur detective, archaeologist, ghost hunter, or conspiracy...
Electric Literatureby Scott McClanahan4 Sept 2026
7 Books About Writing the Writer These authors turned the lives of their friends, lovers, and collaborators into literature We usually think of the writer as a solitary being, whereas if you...
Electric Literatureby Kira Homsher3 Sept 2026
What If There Is No Master Plan for Your Life? I thought I knew the point at which my youth would transform into something else January, a Loss of Signs by Kira Homsher I. January.
Electric Literatureby Mike Bove2 Sept 2026
A Frozen Bird Too Beautiful to Bury Our Bodies Are Owl Bodies My mother was walking in a storm when she saw it face-up in the snow. She knelt down. It wasn’t breathing. She gathered it close.
Electric Literatureby Electric Literature1 Sept 2026
For Marlon James, Being Incurious Is a Writer’s Biggest Sin The Booker Prize-winning author on reading his way through writer's block, and why every sentence has to risk going too far When I...
Electric Literatureby Bareerah Ghani1 Sept 2026
A Story of Love and Resistance Amidst Dispossession In Nyla Matuk's LEILA AND KHALID, romantic love is underscored by a longing for Palestine Poet Nyla Matuk’s debut novel, Leila and Khaled...
Electric Literatureby Anna Reeser31 Aug 2026
Introduction by Willem Marx For every Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, there are thousands of Jeremy Stapletons—uncompromising college poets who inevitably become business managers, computer...
Electric Literatureby Electric Literature28 Aug 2026
15 Books We Read and Loved This Summer The EL staff reviews the best things we've read lately As you might imagine, we read a lot of books here at EL.
Electric Literatureby Carson Markland28 Aug 2026
Brothers, for Better or Worse These seven books explore the rivalries, resentments, and unexpected intimacies that shape the bonds between brothers There was a proverb I came across once that’s...
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