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By Andrea A. Firth The letters are brief. Handwritten in pencil on a half-sheet of lined notebook paper folded inside a stamped envelope. One person asks for a dictionary. Another...
By Amy Shea My first-ever published essay, “The Period Calendar,” was about getting my first period during a time when teen pregnancy dominated cultural imagination. I didn’t think...
Think Global; Write Local Elizabeth Redden Tue, 04/28/2026 - 03:00 AM Want to break into public scholarship? Start with local news outlets. Byline...
The feeling that writers may now be outnumbering readers is not merely a rhetorical exaggeration; it points to a deeper structural imbalance within the linguistic and literary ecos...
Dear Reader, This is my last fundraising letter to you as Executive Director. In my 10 years in this role, and 16 at Electric Literature, I have seen funding for the arts gutted. I...
Two consummate Virginia Woolf scholars have added more than 1,400 letters to the corpus. On show are charm, careful condolence, generosity, candor about her reading and writing, an...
I have always found it curious that in a culture where nearly every aspect of life is unapologetically performed, monetised, exhibited, and algorithmically amplified, the sight of...
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...
Becoming a Public Scholar johnw@mcsweeneys.net Fri, 05/01/2026 - 03:00 AM An interview with David M. Perry, author of a new handbook to help academics wr...
Cultural commentary can make for absorbing and infinitely entertaining reading, especially when it's being written by this must-read critic.
At the Author Lunch with Ann Patchett and Kate DiCamillo, the conversation moved quickly beyond admiration and craft talk. DiCamillo began by reflecting on Minneapolis during the p...
By Andrew Miller One afternoon a few years back, I stood in the warden’s office at the Madison Correctional Institution in Madison, Florida. I volunteered for a Toastmasters Club t...
The private letters of famed literary critic Harold Bloom offer an ethical guide for politics.
By Micaela Edelson In the era of globalization, travel is more accessible than ever and with it has come a boom in travel influencers and bloggers eager to highlight the next best...
As a child growing up in a very small town, interlibrary loan was a lifeline. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, ILL books came by mail, in heavy canvas envelopes with a thick zipper meant to w...
By Andrea A. Firth As a writer, your relationship with the reader is inherent. You come to the page to explore a question, process an experience, or make sense of something difficu...
Being a student of Monica Ferrell’s was a singularly influential time in my life. Immediately upon meeting her, I wanted to be like her: to enter a room with the same serious allur...
“Good taste means nothing if you can’t sell a book.”
By Yelizaveta P. Renfro After being a guest speaker in a graduate creative nonfiction workshop this spring, I received a note from the instructor who wrote to thank me for sharing...
At the Author Lunch with Colson Whitehead, the conversation moved between reading, rejection, labor, and artificial intelligence. Whitehead spoke as an indoor child shaped by The T...
At the Author Lunch with Colson Whitehead, the conversation moved between reading, rejection, labor, and artificial intelligence. Whitehead spoke as an indoor child shaped by The T...
This May, Soman Chainani returns to the scene with his first original novel in over ten years. Young World, published by Penguin Random House, is a political thriller set in the no...
As they move from poem to poem, the reader makes connections between fragments of a story, filling in the gaps with their own imagination. That’s powerful, engaged reading.
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