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The Last Reader I’m just sitting down at a table at the back of the bookstore café with a stack of books and an iced coffee, and the woman at the next table, thirtyish, dreadlocks,...
Small presses have long been the home of the debut short story collection. I absolutely love short stories, and even I sometimes am overwhelmed by the number of debut story collect...
Publishers Weekly picks 15 essential works of American literature, Barnes & Noble announces this year's Discover Prize winner, and more.
For the last several years as Electric Literature’s Managing Editor, grant writing has been a component of my job description. For those unfamiliar with the work, it is almost enti...
An excerpt from Famous Men by Julie Buntin At the Selden Awards, you’re Nathaniel’s guest, with your own seat at the best table. Two years and change, you say to the woman who asks...
Electric Literature, the nonprofit literary platform that has spent seventeen years dedicated to uplifting emerging writers, has launched its very first Emerging Writers Contest, w...
Plus, Heated Rivalry star Hudson Williams shares his favorite books, a Black speculative lit magazine goes on hiatus, and more.
“The few words it contains are indecipherable, of no language. (The letters look Hebrew—if you don’t know Hebrew and have never seen Hebrew letters before.)”
Like so many others (including the Pulitzer Prize committee), I read Andrew Sean Greer’s Less in 2017 and was endlessly charmed by the singularity of Greer’s voice. Rollicking thro...
New books by César Aira, Osamu Dazai, Claire Fuller, Kevin Hartnett, Édouard Louis, and Teddy Wayne.
New Yorker writers name their favorite short books.
“You don’t have to be an AI booster to think ‘catching people out’ is a poor use of the literary community’s energy.”
“Though a novel, the book can also be read as a cacophonous speech-collage-turned-philosophical-investigation of crime and punishment.”
The easiest way to inform people that you are literary is by hosting a reading series. You’ll want yours to have a catchy premise.
For the critic Leslie Fiedler, the country’s best and worst fiction was shaped by visions of escape from society—and therefore from maturity.
THE NEW YORKER'S best books of 2026 so far, summer's It Girl nonfiction chosen by the NYT, and public libraries want e-book pricing changes.
Bobuq Sayed’s début, No God but Us, reinvents the modern American Abroad novel––the story, now over a century old, of Americans departing the US and crossing an ocean to find freed...
The buzziest summer reads, an AI chatbot in Google Play Books, the winners of the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards, and more.
Once, very stoned around a campfire, I asked my friends what fire was. One scientifically minded member of the group offered a dutiful-if-also-stoned explanation about chemical bon...
Featuring interviews with Harryette Mullen and Yan Lianke, prose by Lucy Ellmann and Chigozie Obioma, poetry by Frederick Seidel, and a cover by Alex Da Corte.
There is a particular feeling that accompanies loving something as you watch it disappear. It is not quite despair and not quite hope. It lives somewhere in between, in the place w...
Ball Jar Demon The demon lasted a good month, emitting low moans and sandpaper coughs into her ear, before Celia found an old Ball jar in the cellar, plucked the being off the cutt...
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