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You Are the Past and Present: The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida

Jun 11 - Electric Literature

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (June 10th)

Jun 10 - Electric Literature

Watch Matt Damon on Mars in The Martian

Jun 8 - Electric Literature

Winners of the 2015 Nebula Awards Announced

Jun 8 - Electric Literature

INFOGRAPHIC: The Real History Behind Game of Thrones

Jun 5 - Electric Literature

The Gravitas of the American Dream: American Homes by Ryan Ridge

Jun 4 - Electric Literature

An Urgency in Faith, an interview with Edward Mullany, author of The Three Sunrises

Jun 4 - Electric Literature

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (June 3rd)

Jun 3 - Electric Literature

E.L. James to Write New “Fifty Shades” Novel from Christian’s Perspective

Jun 1 - Electric Literature

Homer’s The Odyssey to Be Adapted by The Hunger Games Director

Jun 1 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (May 31st)

May 31 - Electric Literature

“Anya” by Karen Smyte, 2015 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Prize Winner

May 29 - Electric Literature

Watch Jason Segel as David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour Trailer

May 28 - Electric Literature

On the Outside Looking In: The Invaders by Karolina Waclawiak

May 28 - Electric Literature

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (May 27th)

May 27 - Electric Literature

Flannery O’Connor Stamp for Your Southern Gothic Missives

May 26 - Electric Literature

Telegraphing Coherence: Selected Tweets by Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin

May 25 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (May 24th)

May 24 - Electric Literature

INFOGRAPHIC: 24 Books You Can Read In Under An Hour

May 22 - Electric Literature

A Google Map of All Your Favorite Books

May 21 - Electric Literature

F. Scott’s Fitzgerald’s “Great Gatsby House” Is on Sale

May 21 - Electric Literature

VIDEO: What Bill Gates Thinks You Should Read This Summer

May 20 - Electric Literature

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (May 20th)

May 20 - Electric Literature

László Krasznahorkai Wins Man Booker International Prize 2015

May 19 - Electric Literature

Is This the Real Face of Shakespeare?

May 19 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (May 17th)

May 17 - Electric Literature

Think Fast, Speak Even Faster: Mislaid by Nell Zink

May 14 - Electric Literature

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (May 13th)

May 13 - Electric Literature

BBC and Benedict Cumberbatch Bring Franz Kafka to Radio

May 12 - Electric Literature

COMIC: A Reader’s Manifesto

May 12 - Electric Literature

INFOGRAPHIC: The Life and Habits of Victor Hugo

May 11 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (May 10th)

May 10 - Electric Literature

Chipotle Student Essay Contest Will Award $20k and Get Your Words on Burrito Bags

May 9 - Electric Literature

INFOGRAPHIC: A History of Pen Names

May 8 - Electric Literature

MAY MIXTAPE by Sean H. Doyle

May 8 - Electric Literature

VIDEO: Book Trailer for The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips

May 7 - Electric Literature

Into the Wild: A Look at the Feral Children Running Through Recent Fiction

May 7 - Electric Literature

Finalists for the 2015 Best Translated Book Award

May 6 - Electric Literature

A Brighter Mirror, an interview with Colm Tóibín, author and Chairman of the PEN World Voices…

May 4 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (May 3rd)

May 3 - Electric Literature

Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle to Be Adapted for TV

May 1 - Electric Literature

For May Day, Listen to Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine read A Is for Activist

May 1 - Electric Literature

Joan Didion Honored at Authors Guild Dinner

Apr 28 - Electric Literature

Even “Mad Men” Creator Matthew Weiner was a Struggling Writer Once

Apr 28 - Electric Literature

PEN Award for Charlie Hebdo Causes Controversy Among Authors

Apr 27 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (April 26th)

Apr 26 - Electric Literature

Infographic: Memorable Animals from Literature

Apr 25 - Electric Literature

Electric Literature Seeks an Editorial Intern for Summer 2015

Apr 22 - Electric Literature

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (April 22nd)

Apr 22 - Electric Literature

The Game of Totes Has Been Won!

Apr 21 - Electric Literature

Occasional Glimpses of the Sublime, a conversation with Mary Costello, author of Academy Street

Apr 21 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (April 19th)

Apr 19 - Electric Literature

Infographic: The Science of Speed Reading

Apr 18 - Electric Literature

Game of Totes: Canvas Is Coming (Round 2: The Sweet Sixteen)

Apr 17 - Electric Literature

Shame and Ridicule in Indiana: William H.

Apr 17 - Electric Literature

The Utter Ambivalence of Connection, an interview with Colin Barrett, author of Young Skins

Apr 16 - Electric Literature

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (April 15th)

Apr 15 - Electric Literature

Eduardo Galeano, Celebrated Leftist Author, Dies at Age 74

Apr 13 - Electric Literature

Shia LaBeouf on “Making Nice” by Matt Sumell

Apr 11 - Electric Literature

Brotherhood Lost and Found

Apr 10 - Electric Literature

A Special Form of Crazy, a conversation with Jeremy M. Davies, author of Fancy

Apr 9 - Electric Literature

Kurt Vonnegut’s Graduation Speech: What the “Ghost Dance” of the Native Americans and the French…

Apr 7 - Electric Literature

Game of Totes: Canvas Is Coming (round one)

Apr 6 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (April 5th)

Apr 5 - Electric Literature

The 2015 Hugo Nominees

Apr 4 - Electric Literature

George R.R. Martin Plans to Finish The Winds of Winter by 2016, Teases Possible New Plot Twist

Apr 3 - Electric Literature

“Something at the Bottom of Every New Human Thought”: A Spoiler-Free Look at It Follows and…

Apr 3 - Electric Literature

APRIL MIXTAPE by Lucy K. Shaw

Apr 3 - Electric Literature

Terms of Endearment: Satin Island by Tom McCarthy

Apr 2 - Electric Literature

Recommended Reading opens its doors for submissions today, April 1, for one month only.

Apr 1 - Electric Literature

Electric Literature and Catapult.co Launch New Series of Writing Workshops and Classes

Mar 31 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (March 29th)

Mar 29 - Electric Literature

These Postcards from Fictional Destinations Are Spot-On

Mar 28 - Electric Literature

Ferguson Librarian Scott Bonner to receive ALA’s Lemony Snicket prize

Mar 26 - Electric Literature

Steven Spielberg to Direct Ready Player One Film

Mar 25 - Electric Literature

The Covers for Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman Are Pretty Nice!

Mar 25 - Electric Literature

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (March 25th)

Mar 25 - Electric Literature

The 2015 Man Booker International Prize Finalists

Mar 24 - Electric Literature

VIDEO: Neil Gaiman and Michael Chabon Discuss the Late Terry Pratchett

Mar 23 - Electric Literature

SPOILER ALERT: Game of Thrones Will Officially Spoil the Books

Mar 23 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (March 22nd)

Mar 22 - Electric Literature

Today is Pay for Your Coffee With a Poem Day

Mar 21 - Electric Literature

NEW GENRES: The Worm in The Apple Tale

Mar 20 - Electric Literature

There Will Finally Be a New Little Women Film

Mar 20 - Electric Literature

How DRM Evolved from Protecting Publishers from Piracy to Protecting Amazon from Competition

Mar 19 - Electric Literature

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (March 18th)

Mar 18 - Electric Literature

INFOGRAPHIC: National Book Foundation’s BookUp Helps Foster a Lifelong Love of Reading

Mar 17 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (March 15th)

Mar 15 - Electric Literature

The Literature of Ruins: On ISIS, Tom McCarthy and the Fiction of Antiquity

Mar 13 - Electric Literature

In A Word, Voice: The Only Ones by Carola Dibbell

Mar 12 - Electric Literature

Write a 200-Word Essay, Win the New England Inn of Your Dreams

Mar 11 - Electric Literature

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (March 11th)

Mar 11 - Electric Literature

MARCH MIX by Laura van den Berg

Mar 10 - Electric Literature

VIDEO: A Library Tank that Gives Out Free Books

Mar 10 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: Turtleface and Beyond by Arthur Bradford

Mar 9 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (March 8th)

Mar 8 - Electric Literature

INFOGRAPHIC: The World’s Most Translated Books

Mar 7 - Electric Literature

Literary Posters for Book Lovers and Minimalists Alike

Mar 6 - Electric Literature

Coffee House Press Teams Up with Emily Books for New Imprint

Mar 5 - Electric Literature

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (March 4th)

Mar 4 - Electric Literature

How the MFA Glut Is a Disservice to Students, Teachers, and Writers

Mar 3 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (March 1st)

Mar 1 - Electric Literature

Sixpenny Magazine: a new journal of illustrated fiction

Feb 27 - Electric Literature

Boyhood’s Richard Linklater May Adapt Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Feb 26 - Electric Literature

Analog Love in the Digital Age: Absolving Roberto Acestes Laing

Feb 26 - Electric Literature

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (February 25th)

Feb 25 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (Feb. 21st)

Feb 22 - Electric Literature

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (February 18th)

Feb 18 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Laura van den Berg, author of Find Me

Feb 17 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (Feb. 15th)

Feb 15 - Electric Literature

FEBRUARY MIXTAPE by Kate Durbin

Feb 13 - Electric Literature

Ben Stiller to Adapt Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story for TV

Feb 11 - Electric Literature

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (February 11th)

Feb 11 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (Feb. 8th)

Feb 8 - Electric Literature

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (February 4th)

Feb 4 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (Feb. 1st)

Feb 1 - Electric Literature

INFOGRAPHIC: Book Adaptation Oscar Nominees

Jan 31 - Electric Literature

Electric Literature Seeks a Development Director to Join our Team

Jan 30 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Thomas Pierce, author of Hall of Small Mammals

Jan 29 - Electric Literature

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (January 28th)

Jan 28 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (January 24th)

Jan 25 - Electric Literature

INFOGRAPHIC: Library Industry Outlook

Jan 24 - Electric Literature

On the Stories (Or Lack Thereof) of Joe Brainard

Jan 23 - Electric Literature

J. K. Rowling’s Spreadsheet Shows How She Wrote Harry Potter

Jan 22 - Electric Literature

Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web

Jan 21 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (January 18th)

Jan 18 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: John Dermot Woods, author of The Baltimore Atrocities

Jan 16 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: The Maggot People by Henning Koch

Jan 15 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (January 11th)

Jan 11 - Electric Literature

JANUARY MIXTAPE by Brian Allen Carr

Jan 6 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Wendy C. Ortiz, author of Excavation and Hollywood Notebook

Jan 6 - Electric Literature

INFOGRAPHIC: Should you self-publish or go traditional?

Jan 5 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (January 4th)

Jan 4 - Electric Literature

Introducing Okey-Panky

Jan 3 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (Dec. 28th)

Dec 28 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce

Dec 23 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (Dec. 21st)

Dec 21 - Electric Literature

Making Poetic Sport of the Wounded

Dec 20 - Electric Literature

DOUBLE DARE: Point Horror

Dec 19 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (Dec. 14th)

Dec 14 - Electric Literature

London Artist Imagines Classic Albums’ Tracklistings as Book Titles

Dec 13 - Electric Literature

DECEMBER MIX by Curbside Splendor

Dec 11 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink

Dec 8 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (Dec. 7th)

Dec 7 - Electric Literature

Electric Literature announces nominees for 2016 Pushcart Prize

Dec 2 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (Nov. 30th)

Nov 30 - Electric Literature

Watching Ourselves Watch Football: What the rise of the sport’s guilt lit says about us

Nov 24 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (Nov. 23rd)

Nov 23 - Electric Literature

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark being Adapted by Big Fish Screenwriter

Nov 20 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (Nov. 16th)

Nov 16 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Isaac Fitzgerald, Editor of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them

Nov 10 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (Nov. 9th)

Nov 9 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Nicholas Bourbaki, author of If

Nov 8 - Electric Literature

Luke Goebel Talks With Lindsay Hunter

Nov 7 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter

Nov 6 - Electric Literature

NOVEMBER MIXTAPE by Timothy Willis Sanders

Nov 4 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Michael Cunningham and James Naughton

Nov 4 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (Nov. 2nd)

Nov 2 - Electric Literature

Twelve Haunting American Short Stories to Read This Halloween

Oct 24 - Electric Literature

French Embassy Opens Albertine Bookstore with Star-Studded Gala

Oct 23 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web (Oct. 19th)

Oct 19 - Electric Literature

In the Dark and the Gloom: Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Oct 17 - Electric Literature

J.K. Rowling to pen screenplays for Harry Potter prequel trilogy

Oct 16 - Electric Literature

McSweeney’s to officially become a nonprofit

Oct 16 - Electric Literature

Come Here Often? Kate Christensen on Her Favorite Bar in Portland, Maine

Oct 14 - Electric Literature

Ten Funny Books You May Not Have Read

Oct 13 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Kathleen Founds, author of When Mystical Creatures Attack!

Oct 3 - Electric Literature

OCTOBER MIX by Chloe Caldwell

Oct 2 - Electric Literature

Sunday Sundries: Literary Links from Around the Web

Sep 28 - Electric Literature

A Public Space Announces 2015 Emerging Writer Fellowships

Sep 23 - Electric Literature

Cormac McCarthy Smiles

Sep 23 - Electric Literature

Ten Indie Titles the National Book Awards Overlooked

Sep 19 - Electric Literature

Madness in Cervantes’ Spain

Sep 18 - Electric Literature

Social Contracts and “the Cult of Likability”

Sep 9 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach trilogy

Sep 8 - Electric Literature

VIDEO: David Sedaris Gets Humbled on a Plane

Sep 6 - Electric Literature

SEPTEMBER MIX by Ana Carrete and Mike Bushnell

Sep 4 - Electric Literature

Rewriting through Google Ads: Mimi Cabell and Jason Huff’s American Psycho

Aug 30 - Electric Literature

What David Foster Wallace Can and Cannot Teach Us About the State of American Men’s Tennis

Aug 25 - Electric Literature

3-D Printed Storybooks for the Visually Impaired

Aug 23 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: Idiopaths by Bill Rasmovicz

Aug 21 - Electric Literature

The Fundamentalist Reader — On Plotless Novels and the Meaning of Life

Aug 19 - Electric Literature

The Best Graphic Novels I’ve Ever Read

Aug 18 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Lauren Wallach, author of “A Higher Purpose,” now on Recommended Reading

Aug 15 - Electric Literature

A Is For Apocalypse: Children’s Books for the Modern Age

Aug 10 - Electric Literature

AWP Offers Writer to Writer Mentorship Program

Aug 9 - Electric Literature

Short Story Thursday Presents: Ocean Fiction (Part Four)

Aug 7 - Electric Literature

The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima is The Stuff of Reality TV

Aug 6 - Electric Literature

AUGUST MIX by Jim Ruland

Aug 4 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: David Shapiro, author of You’re Not Much Use to Anyone

Aug 3 - Electric Literature

McSweeney’s First-Ever Student Short Story Contest

Aug 1 - Electric Literature

Short Story Thursday Presents: Ocean Fiction (Part Three)

Jul 31 - Electric Literature

Self-Publishing and Writer Organizations

Jul 31 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: The Committee On Town Happiness by Alan Michael Parker

Jul 28 - Electric Literature

Victoria Siemer’s Poetic Error Messages

Jul 26 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: David James Poissant, author of The Heaven of Animals

Jul 25 - Electric Literature

Short Story Thursday Presents: Ocean Fiction (Part Two)

Jul 24 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Mike DeCapite, author of Through the Windshield

Jul 22 - Electric Literature

The Visual Poetry of Anatol Knotek

Jul 21 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: The Corpse Exhibition by Hassan Blasim

Jul 21 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Sasha Graybosch, author of “Recovery Period,” now on Recommended Reading

Jul 19 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Patricia Lockwood, author of Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals

Jul 18 - Electric Literature

Electric Literature Seeks an Editorial Intern for the Fall Semester

Jul 17 - Electric Literature

Short Story Thursday Presents: Ocean Fiction (Part One)

Jul 17 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: The Heaven of Animals by David James Poissant

Jul 14 - Electric Literature

An Open Letter to Alice Munro

Jul 13 - Electric Literature

JULY MIX by Aaron Burch

Jul 1 - Electric Literature

Choices that Haunt You: Conditional Logic in Choicefic

Jun 27 - Electric Literature

Flannery O’Connor Dissing Ayn Rand in 1960

Jun 19 - Electric Literature

Peter Matthiessen and Hunting Crows at Yale

Jun 17 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: Bald New World by Peter Tieryas Liu

Jun 16 - Electric Literature

Sam Lipsyte on Plastic Bags

Jun 6 - Electric Literature

THE WRITING LIFE: Writing and Mental Health

Jun 3 - Electric Literature

JUNE MIX by Ariel Schrag

Jun 2 - Electric Literature

From Salvador Dalí to Bianca Stone: 10 Artists Who Illustrated Books

May 31 - Electric Literature

H.I.P. Lit: The End of the World Edition

May 23 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: Made to Break by D. Foy

May 19 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: Misadventure by Nicholas Grider

May 5 - Electric Literature

MAY MIX — Illuminati Girl Gang

May 1 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: In the Course of Human Events by Mike Harvkey

Apr 28 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: Black Cloud by Juliet Escoria

Apr 22 - Electric Literature

The Brave New World of Choicefic

Apr 16 - Electric Literature

APRIL MIX by Juliet Escoria

Apr 1 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: Hanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei by Barnaby Martin

Mar 31 - Electric Literature

On Joyce Carol Oates Reading at NYU

Mar 19 - Electric Literature

Interview with “Used Books” Artist Ben Sisto

Mar 16 - Electric Literature

Review: And Every Day Was Overcast by Paul Kwiatkowski

Mar 12 - Electric Literature

Beware of Memory: On Reading Stefan Zweig’s “Beware of Pity”

Mar 7 - Electric Literature

MARCH MIX by Giancarlo DiTrapano

Mar 5 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Bill Cotter, Author of The Parallel Apartments

Mar 5 - Electric Literature

Books You Should Read Instead of Seeing “Endless Love”

Mar 1 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: Praying Drunk by Kyle Minor

Feb 24 - Electric Literature

Get Connected at The Digital Writers’ Festival

Feb 18 - Electric Literature

Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Don’t Write A Letter If He Wrote It Better

Feb 14 - Electric Literature

Lend A Hand to St. Mark’s Bookshop

Feb 12 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: Beside Myself by Ashley Farmer

Feb 10 - Electric Literature

Why Kurt Vonnegut Hated Screenwriting

Feb 7 - Electric Literature

Small Press Bookstore Pops Up Along Gowanus Canal

Feb 4 - Electric Literature

FEBRUARY MIX by Peter Mattei

Feb 3 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men by Gabriel Blackwell

Feb 3 - Electric Literature

The Outlet Is Looking for Contributors

Jan 31 - Electric Literature

Qu.ee/r Magazine Brings A Fresh Voice To Queer Lit

Jan 22 - Electric Literature

What We Learned About Your Sadness

Jan 20 - Electric Literature

National Book Critics Circle Finalists Include Hilton Als, Donna Tartt, and Sheri Fink

Jan 17 - Electric Literature

The Best Bad Book Reviews of the Year

Jan 15 - Electric Literature

Gordon Lish “Bot” Takes His Red Pen To Twitter

Jan 14 - Electric Literature

Chang-rae Lee’s 3-D Printed Slipcover

Jan 8 - Electric Literature

The Factspace Profiles Stephen King

Jan 7 - Electric Literature

JANUARY MIX by Jeff Jackson

Jan 6 - Electric Literature

The Art of Crowdfunding: Self-Publishing in the Information Age

Jan 6 - Electric Literature

3 Author Portraits Donated to Seattle’s Hugo House

Dec 20 - Electric Literature

Get Lost With “Where You Are”

Dec 17 - Electric Literature

Submission Period for the PEN Literary Awards ends December 16th

Dec 11 - Electric Literature

In Defense of “Bad” Sex Writing

Dec 10 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: Nothing by Anne Marie Wirth Cauchon

Dec 9 - Electric Literature

The Factspace Uncorks the Truth About Bukowski’s Poetry

Nov 20 - Electric Literature

Happy Birthday, Kurt Vonnegut!

Nov 11 - Electric Literature

NOVEMBER MIX by Chelsea Martin

Nov 4 - Electric Literature

The Factspace Reveals the Truth About 5 Famous Authors

Oct 31 - Electric Literature

OCTOBER MIX — Gigantic Talk

Oct 7 - Electric Literature

Fantastically Strange: A Talk with Karen Russell and A.M. Homes

Oct 4 - Electric Literature

The Factspace on George Eliot’s Real Identity

Oct 3 - Electric Literature

About Literature

Oct 1 - Electric Literature

THE WRITING LIFE: The Unappreciated Genius of John Stanwell

Sep 27 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: John the Posthumous by Jason Schwartz

Sep 26 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Gabriel Birnbaum of Wilder Maker

Sep 24 - Electric Literature

Literary Worlds Collide: Electric Literature, Gigantic, and Tumblr Bookend the BK Book Fest

Sep 19 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Matthew Zingg and Co. on the New Federal Dust Reading

Sep 12 - Electric Literature

The Factspace on the Origin of Poetry

Sep 10 - Electric Literature

SEPTEMBER MIX by Lindsay Hunter

Sep 2 - Electric Literature

The Factspace on Oscar Wilde

Aug 27 - Electric Literature

How WORD Celebrates the End of Summer

Aug 23 - Electric Literature

One of the Best Moments of My Life

Aug 14 - Electric Literature

CONTEST: #FictionDates

Aug 7 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: The Atlas Review’s Marathon Reading of Solaris

Aug 1 - Electric Literature

AUGUST MIX by Ken Baumann

Aug 1 - Electric Literature

LIT LIST: NY Readings July 29 — August 4

Jul 29 - Electric Literature

Everyone’s a Writer: An Interview with So Say We All

Jul 22 - Electric Literature

10 Articles for the Next Hipster Intellectual Journal

Jul 16 - Electric Literature

LIT LIST: NY Readings July 14 — July 20

Jul 15 - Electric Literature

A 12-Foot Tribute to Colin Firth’s Mr. Darcy

Jul 12 - Electric Literature

The Shortlists for the 2013 PEN Literary Awards

Jul 12 - Electric Literature

The best and most literary song in the world!

Jul 9 - Electric Literature

VIDEO: The World’s Grossest Words

Jul 8 - Electric Literature

JULY MIX by Elizabeth Ellen

Jul 1 - Electric Literature

Gertrude Stein Gets Rejected

Jun 26 - Electric Literature

What’s the newest new Catcher in the Rye?

Jun 24 - Electric Literature

The Lit List! — 6/24–6/30

Jun 24 - Electric Literature

Review: Odds Against Tomorrow, by Nathaniel Rich

Jun 24 - Electric Literature

LIT LINKS: beautiful books edition

Jun 21 - Electric Literature

15 Books Destroyed for Art

Jun 21 - Electric Literature

A Literary Circus

Jun 20 - Electric Literature

The Lit List! 6/17–23

Jun 17 - Electric Literature

Franklin Park Reading Series + PEN American: Where Everrybody At

Jun 13 - Electric Literature

Review: Let the Dark Flower Blossom, by Norah Labiner

Jun 13 - Electric Literature

The Lit List! 6/10–6/16

Jun 10 - Electric Literature

Bedazzled at the One Story Debutante Ball

Jun 7 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Adam Novy “the internet makes me anxious”

Jun 6 - Electric Literature

JUNE MIX by Ben Loory

Jun 4 - Electric Literature

Interview with Tao Lin

Jun 3 - Electric Literature

Wolfhead: Graywolf meets Riverhead meets Party

Jun 3 - Electric Literature

Review: A Questionable Shape, by Bennett Sims

Jun 3 - Electric Literature

The Lit List 6/3–6/9

Jun 3 - Electric Literature

Getting In Spirit: Moth Host Dan Kennedy’s Book Launch

May 31 - Electric Literature

The Lit List: 5/27–6/2

May 28 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Dan Kennedy AKA “guy that says stupid shit at four in the morning.”

May 28 - Electric Literature

The Lit List: May 20–23

May 20 - Electric Literature

LIT LINKS: Party Like A Writer (5/17/13)

May 17 - Electric Literature

E. E. Cummings Literally Invented “Partying”

May 16 - Electric Literature

The Lit List: May 13–19

May 13 - Electric Literature

Review: Iris Has Free Time, by Iris Smyles

May 10 - Electric Literature

Review: Idiopathy, by Sam Byers

May 8 - Electric Literature

The Lit List: May 6–12

May 6 - Electric Literature

Shut the Fuck Up — It’s Opening Night

May 2 - Electric Literature

MAY MIX by Kendra Grant Malone & Matthew Savoca

May 1 - Electric Literature

The Lit List: April 29-May 5

Apr 29 - Electric Literature

Reader as Endangered Species: Renata Adler at the Center for Fiction

Apr 26 - Electric Literature

LIT LINKS: We’re perverts & more! (4/26/13)

Apr 26 - Electric Literature

PEN launches new website, parties IRL (with photos!)

Apr 25 - Electric Literature

The 41 Best #AuthorSexts (NSFW)

Apr 24 - Electric Literature

Meanwhile, in California… The LA Times Festival of Books

Apr 23 - Electric Literature

Review: A Thousand Pardons, by Jonathan Dee

Apr 23 - Electric Literature

CONTEST: #AuthorSexts

Apr 23 - Electric Literature

Drugs, Sex and Coffee: Stories on Our Streets at LitFest

Apr 19 - Electric Literature

Sexts from Sam Pink

Apr 19 - Electric Literature

The Lit List: April 15–21

Apr 15 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… The Oregon Book Awards

Apr 15 - Electric Literature

I Wore Poetry in the Shape of a Girl

Apr 10 - Electric Literature

I AM ART: Things we say at the Franklin Park Reading Series

Apr 9 - Electric Literature

Review: All We Know, by Lisa Cohen

Apr 9 - Electric Literature

A Grand Discovery at The Paris Review

Apr 9 - Electric Literature

The Lit List: April 8–12

Apr 8 - Electric Literature

The Original Great Gatsby Trailer (1926)

Apr 8 - Electric Literature

They Got Real: Aleksandar Hemon and Colum McCann

Apr 4 - Electric Literature

Fiona Maazel Madness

Apr 3 - Electric Literature

Review: Woke Up Lonely, by Fiona Maazel

Apr 2 - Electric Literature

APRIL MIX by Karolina Waclawiak

Apr 1 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… “I’m a Pathological Liar,” Says the Artist Formerly Known as JT LeRoy

Apr 1 - Electric Literature

Interview with B. Frayn Masters

Mar 27 - Electric Literature

Leopard Spotting: Kristopher Jansma Launch at Center for Fiction

Mar 25 - Electric Literature

Things Famous People Said: Story Prize Round Up

Mar 21 - Electric Literature

SCANDAL! The New Yorker Rejects Its Own Story

Mar 21 - Electric Literature

Gimme that Cookie: Crown Heights’ Renegade Reading Series

Mar 19 - Electric Literature

Review: The Flamethrowers, by Rachel Kushner

Mar 18 - Electric Literature

Sam Pink kills it at the launch party for RONTEL

Mar 15 - Electric Literature

Review: Artful, by Ali Smith

Mar 14 - Electric Literature

Scott McClanahan Revealed as Sham, Not Actually from Crapalachia

Mar 13 - Electric Literature

Franklin Park Reading Series Turns Four!

Mar 12 - Electric Literature

The Lit List: March 11–17

Mar 11 - Electric Literature

Review: This Is the Way, by Gavin Corbett

Mar 6 - Electric Literature

Interview with xTx

Mar 5 - Electric Literature

2012 VIDA count: Hey Ladies, how about that slice of blueberry pie?

Mar 5 - Electric Literature

MARCH MIX by Beach Sloth

Mar 4 - Electric Literature

Your Spirit Guide to Indie AWP

Mar 4 - Electric Literature

Partying with Books, Literally: Mellow Pages Library Launch

Feb 26 - Electric Literature

Narratively Launch at Powerhouse: So Exciting We Got Naked

Feb 22 - Electric Literature

Review: Could You Be With Her Now, by Jen Michalski

Feb 20 - Electric Literature

Fox News Says Women Are Pre-Disposed to Like Jane Austen

Feb 19 - Electric Literature

Lit for your lover, this Valentine’s Day

Feb 15 - Electric Literature

The Best Novel We’ve Ever Published

Feb 14 - Electric Literature

For love and paper

Feb 13 - Electric Literature

Interview with Joshua Mohr

Feb 12 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… My First Moth

Feb 12 - Electric Literature

February Wanderers at the Franklin Park Reading Series

Feb 12 - Electric Literature

The Lit List: February 11–22

Feb 11 - Electric Literature

FEBRUARY MIX by Sam Pink

Feb 7 - Electric Literature

LITERARY ARTIFACTS: The Ginsberg Collaborators

Feb 5 - Electric Literature

Live video chat with George Saunders at 1pm

Feb 5 - Electric Literature

Author as Entrepreneur: the new model for success

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Jan 18 - Electric Literature

Franklin Park Reading Series’ Fourth Annual Short Fiction Night!

Jan 17 - Electric Literature

National Book Critics Circle announces finalists for 2012 awards

Jan 17 - Electric Literature

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Jan 16 - Electric Literature

The National Book Foundation announces changes to their award selection process

Jan 15 - Electric Literature

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Dec 13 - Electric Literature

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Dec 12 - Electric Literature

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Nov 20 - Electric Literature

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Nov 19 - Electric Literature

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Oct 13 - Electric Literature

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Oct 12 - Electric Literature

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Oct 6 - Electric Literature

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Oct 4 - Electric Literature

It’s a 24 hour internet book party!

Oct 3 - Electric Literature

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Sep 25 - Electric Literature

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Sep 24 - Electric Literature

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Sep 21 - Electric Literature

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Sep 20 - Electric Literature

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Sep 19 - Electric Literature

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Sep 11 - Electric Literature

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SEPTEMBER MIX — Happy Birthday, Emily Books!

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Sep 3 - Electric Literature

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Aug 30 - Electric Literature

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Aug 30 - Electric Literature

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Aug 29 - Electric Literature

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Aug 20 - Electric Literature

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Aug 16 - Electric Literature

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Aug 14 - Electric Literature

AUGUST MIX — Other People’s 100th Episode!

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Aug 13 - Electric Literature

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Aug 13 - Electric Literature

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Aug 13 - Electric Literature

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Aug 9 - Electric Literature

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Aug 8 - Electric Literature

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Aug 8 - Electric Literature

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Aug 8 - Electric Literature

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Aug 7 - Electric Literature

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Aug 6 - Electric Literature

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Aug 3 - Electric Literature

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Aug 3 - Electric Literature

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Aug 3 - Electric Literature

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Aug 1 - Electric Literature

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Jul 31 - Electric Literature

Public Pictures: A Public Space Issue 16 Launch

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That’s Some Hot Shit: Fifty Shades of Grey at McNally Jackson

Jul 26 - Electric Literature

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Jul 25 - Electric Literature

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Jul 25 - Electric Literature

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Jul 25 - Electric Literature

IT’S ALIIIIVE!: A Night With Brooklyn Indie Lit Mags at powerHouse Arena

Jul 24 - Electric Literature

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Jul 23 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… Ladies at the London

Jul 23 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… Toutonghi’s Tuesday Evel Knievel Evening

Jul 20 - Electric Literature

MID-JULY MIX by Monkeybicycle

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Jul 18 - Electric Literature

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Jul 18 - Electric Literature

Reading at the End of the World: Karen Thompson Walker at BookCourt

Jul 18 - Electric Literature

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Jul 17 - Electric Literature

Akashic’s Basement Show at McNally Jackson!

Jul 17 - Electric Literature

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Jul 16 - Electric Literature

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Jul 16 - Electric Literature

“The Story Becomes the Thing of Value”: Significant Objects Launch at The Strand

Jul 12 - Electric Literature

The Reading Behind the Reading: Colson Whitehead at BookCourt

Jul 11 - Electric Literature

I had a career, I tanked it good.

Jul 11 - Electric Literature

A Literary Trip Out at July’s Franklin Park Reading Series

Jul 10 - Electric Literature

Margaret Atwood launches Fanado!

Jul 9 - Electric Literature

Nathan Englander wins the 2012 Frank O’Connor short story award

Jul 9 - Electric Literature

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Jul 5 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… Future Tense in the Wild

Jul 3 - Electric Literature

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Jul 3 - Electric Literature

JULY MIX by Amelia Gray

Jul 2 - Electric Literature

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Jun 30 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… Sack Up: Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco at Powell’s

Jun 29 - Electric Literature

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Jun 29 - Electric Literature

Are You Coffin-Ready?: The Coffin Factory Issue Three Launch Party

Jun 29 - Electric Literature

Taylor Mead at Bowery Poetry Club — Last of the Beats

Jun 27 - Electric Literature

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Jun 27 - Electric Literature

Now that’s how you silence the rabble

Jun 27 - Electric Literature

Instant Enlightenment at Unnameable Books

Jun 26 - Electric Literature

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Jun 26 - Electric Literature

Tomorrow is Better: a new project from the former staff of GOOD magazine

Jun 25 - Electric Literature

Between Love and Madness Lies Obsession: Conjunctions’ Issue Launch at McNally Jackson

Jun 25 - Electric Literature

How Should A Person Be? Like Sheila Heti at Powerhouse, that’s how

Jun 21 - Electric Literature

Q: How many Arnold Baringtons does it take to fix a communications dish?

Jun 20 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… Loggernaut’s 100th Reader

Jun 19 - Electric Literature

Riverhead Books-VIDA bash at Brooklyn Brewery!

Jun 19 - Electric Literature

2012 Indie Book Awards Announced

Jun 18 - Electric Literature

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Jun 15 - Electric Literature

Imagine Your Memory — Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster at The Strand

Jun 15 - Electric Literature

LITERARY ARTIFACTS: Everything is Illuminated — The New York Antiquarian Book Fair

Jun 14 - Electric Literature

Summer is Here! — June’s Franklin Park Reading Series

Jun 13 - Electric Literature

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Jun 12 - Electric Literature

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Jun 11 - Electric Literature

Upstairs At The Square: Patti Smith

Jun 10 - Electric Literature

Freerange Nonfiction finale (for now) at Pianos

Jun 8 - Electric Literature

King of Science Fiction, Ray Bradbury Dies

Jun 6 - Electric Literature

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Jun 6 - Electric Literature

Animal House, or Something Like It — Bookrageous BEA Party at Housing Works

Jun 5 - Electric Literature

JUNE MIX by Muumuu House

Jun 4 - Electric Literature

The Nervous Breakdown Literary Experience NYC!

May 29 - Electric Literature

The Common in the City

May 28 - Electric Literature

Hanky Panky! — PANK Invades WORD Brooklyn sponsored by Vol. 1 Brooklyn

May 24 - Electric Literature

Getting Creepy at LDM NYC #42

May 24 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… Anthony Doerr and Charles D’Ambrosio

May 21 - Electric Literature

Young Lions Fiction Award 2012 — Three Roars for Karen Russell!

May 16 - Electric Literature

Night of Indie — Small Press and Lit Mag Night at Franklin Park Reading Series

May 16 - Electric Literature

The Gentrification of the Mind: A Talk with Sarah Schulman at St. Mark’s Bookshop

May 15 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Mike Doughty, Author of The Book of Drugs

May 14 - Electric Literature

Lit Prom Night 2012 — Small Press and Literary Magazine Night at Housing Works SoHo

May 10 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… Wandering Creative Space with Chimamanda Adichie

May 9 - Electric Literature

Veterans’ Reading at NYU

May 3 - Electric Literature

Comedies of the Cataclysm: Vol. 1 Brooklyn Presents Matt Bell at RAC

May 2 - Electric Literature

MAY MIX by Mike Doughty

May 1 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Melissa Broder, Author of MEAT HEART

Apr 30 - Electric Literature

One Year of Fiction Addiction… and Lots and Lots of Whiskey!

Apr 26 - Electric Literature

Only You Can Save Literature: One Story’s Literary Debutante Ball

Apr 25 - Electric Literature

Living in a Material World: A Conversation with George Saunders and David Lipsky

Apr 23 - Electric Literature

Nerdaroo: FSG and Small Demons Present Nerd Jeopardy

Apr 20 - Electric Literature

BETRAYED! at Franklin Park

Apr 17 - Electric Literature

MID-APRIL MIX by Melissa Broder

Apr 16 - Electric Literature

Group Writing Advice from J. Robert Lennon

Apr 16 - Electric Literature

Larghearted Words from Greenpoint

Apr 16 - Electric Literature

Meanwhile from the LBC…Cheap Drinks, Surf Rock, Literary Contests and Sexual Tension at The…

Apr 13 - Electric Literature

Fence Magazine’s Spring Issue Launch at Housing Works

Apr 13 - Electric Literature

A Practical Man: David Rees’ How to Sharpen Pencils at B&N Union Square

Apr 13 - Electric Literature

Real Love and Cheetos Dust: A Night with Mike Doughty

Apr 11 - Electric Literature

The Greatest 3-Minute Punk Stories Ever @ Public Assembly

Apr 11 - Electric Literature

Atticus Lish Party

Apr 9 - Electric Literature

Demisemiquavers: UNSAID 6 Launch @ KGB

Apr 9 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW! Heidi Julavits, Author of The Vanishers

Apr 6 - Electric Literature

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Apr 5 - Electric Literature

APRIL MIX by Johan Harstad

Apr 1 - Electric Literature

Dear Cheryl: A Wild Night with Sugar and The Rumpus

Mar 29 - Electric Literature

You Want Some Big Black Clock? — Issue #15 Launches at McNally Jackson

Mar 27 - Electric Literature

The Story Prize 2011 Reading Extravaganza!

Mar 22 - Electric Literature

For Maris, With Love and Slaughter: Slaughterhouse 90210’s Third Year Anniversary Party

Mar 22 - Electric Literature

Heidi Julavits at The Center for Fiction

Mar 22 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… The Shanghai Tunnels Project’s Poetry Film Competition

Mar 21 - Electric Literature

SpeedRead: Adam Wilson’s Flatscreen Continues, Coupled with The Speed Chronicles

Mar 20 - Electric Literature

MID-MARCH MIX by Miles Klee

Mar 16 - Electric Literature

Interview: Miles Klee, Author of Ivyland

Mar 15 - Electric Literature

Three Years of Franklin Park Reading Series!

Mar 13 - Electric Literature

Twice as Nice: Patrick deWitt at BookCourt

Mar 12 - Electric Literature

Ivyland Release Party at Brooklyn Brewery

Mar 9 - Electric Literature

Patrick deWitt at McNally Jackson for The Sisters Brothers

Mar 9 - Electric Literature

33 Minutes of Continuous Hits: Vol. 1 Brooklyn’s The Greatest 3-Minute Movie Stories Ever

Mar 9 - Electric Literature

HAPPY DEATHDAY! Literary Death Match’s 6th Birthday at The Back Room

Mar 7 - Electric Literature

MARCH MIX by Adam Wilson

Mar 6 - Electric Literature

My Tablets, Quick, My Tablets! — Length and Format in the Digital Age

Mar 6 - Electric Literature

The Sampler Platter: Saturday at AWP

Mar 5 - Electric Literature

AWP Literature Party at Lincoln Hall

Mar 4 - Electric Literature

HAPPY PILLS — Michael Ian Black with Meghan McCain at WORD

Mar 1 - Electric Literature

Park Slope meets Cobble Hill: Brooklyn Writers Space Reading Series at Book Court

Feb 27 - Electric Literature

Wandering with A Public Space

Feb 24 - Electric Literature

Adam Wilson’s Flatscreen Launch at BookCourt

Feb 23 - Electric Literature

Salute Their Shorts! — Selected Shorts: An Evening with One Story Magazine

Feb 23 - Electric Literature

Magickal Readism at the Bowery Poetry Club

Feb 23 - Electric Literature

Women Without Men

Feb 23 - Electric Literature

INTERVIEW: Adam Wilson, Author of Flatscreen — Learning to Be Bad at the Right Things

Feb 22 - Electric Literature

Meanwhile, in California… Taking Back the Inland Empire @ UCR’s Writers Week

Feb 22 - Electric Literature

Six Writers You May Have Read Online — Muumuu House at St. Marks Bookshop

Feb 22 - Electric Literature

GUTSY GRRRLS — Women on the Verge at KGB Bar

Feb 20 - Electric Literature

THE MILAN REVIEW OF THE UNIVERSE!!!!

Feb 17 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… Forget about Band Camp

Feb 16 - Electric Literature

Dear Sugar: Sold-Out Coming Out Party Opposite of Selling Out

Feb 16 - Electric Literature

The Facebook Book

Feb 15 - Electric Literature

Meanwhile, in California… Infested With Vermin

Feb 15 - Electric Literature

Love Stories From The Dark — February’s Franklin Park Reading Series

Feb 14 - Electric Literature

Which Way to the Exit?: Granta Issue 118 Launch Party at McNally Jackson

Feb 14 - Electric Literature

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Feb 13 - Electric Literature

Stories From the LES, Stories from Brooklyn: Vol.1 Brooklyn @ RAC

Feb 10 - Electric Literature

Nathan Englander’s Serious Moral Act

Feb 10 - Electric Literature

Occupying Wall Street at KGB

Feb 9 - Electric Literature

Poets at the Superbowl

Feb 8 - Electric Literature

Interview with Emma Straub — Glamour Out the Wazoo

Feb 8 - Electric Literature

Book Xylophone

Feb 8 - Electric Literature

“Kafka would have had a Twitter feed!”

Feb 7 - Electric Literature

Better Off Dead: Coffin Factory’s Issue Two Launch Party at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe

Feb 3 - Electric Literature

Radio Reading! StoryCorps at Greenlight

Feb 2 - Electric Literature

Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum (But Don’t Spill it on Me Book): Sara Levine’s Treasure Island!!!

Feb 2 - Electric Literature

Fiction Addiction — That’s Some Good $hi*

Feb 2 - Electric Literature

FEBRUARY MIX by Emma Straub

Feb 1 - Electric Literature

Boy With a Blog in His Side — Largehearted Lit’s 10th Anniversary at WORD Brooklyn

Jan 27 - Electric Literature

LAST NIGHT’S LIT PARTY… Bookforum Release Party!

Jan 27 - Electric Literature

BEYOND BOOKS: The 12th Annual Edwardian Ball

Jan 25 - Electric Literature

World Book Night Wants You

Jan 25 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… A Salon Grows in Portland

Jan 24 - Electric Literature

Interview with Victoria Patterson, Author of This Vacant Paradise

Jan 24 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: The Tender Hour of Twilight by Richard Seaver

Jan 24 - Electric Literature

Why We Need You, Blue… Tom Agnotti at Bluestockings

Jan 23 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: The Death of Arthur by Peter Ackroyd

Jan 23 - Electric Literature

NEENER, NEENER — Ben Marcus’ The Flame Alphabet at BookCourt

Jan 20 - Electric Literature

JAMES KIRKWOOD: mythical…but maybe not murderer

Jan 20 - Electric Literature

Return of the Nerds: FSG’s Work in Progress presents Nerd Jeopardy! at McNally Jackson

Jan 19 - Electric Literature

Booze, Brownies and Books at WORD Brooklyn

Jan 18 - Electric Literature

Franklin Park’s 3rd Annual Short Fiction Night

Jan 11 - Electric Literature

The 2011 Story Prize Finalists

Jan 11 - Electric Literature

WINNERS: Holiday Restraint Contest

Jan 10 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: The Fallback Plan by Leigh Stein

Jan 10 - Electric Literature

JANUARY MIX by Leigh Stein

Jan 3 - Electric Literature

Happy Holidays from Electric Literature and Etgar Keret

Dec 21 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… Shhhh: A Bookstar is Reading

Dec 19 - Electric Literature

And the Emcee Wore Leather…

Dec 19 - Electric Literature

Dear Lad Mags: Sex Sells, But At What Cost?

Dec 16 - Electric Literature

MONSTERS at Franklin Park

Dec 16 - Electric Literature

8 Years in Reading: an Interview with C. Max Magee of The Millions

Dec 16 - Electric Literature

HOLIDAY CONTEST: rules, fine print, and the nitty-gritty

Dec 15 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: The Age of Movies, Selected Writings of Pauline Kael

Dec 15 - Electric Literature

The Most Beautiful Books of the Year: a Holiday Gift Guide

Dec 14 - Electric Literature

DIRTY! DIRTY! DIRTY! A High Speed Book Tour (part VII)

Dec 14 - Electric Literature

HOLIDAY CONTEST: Show a Little Restraint!

Dec 13 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… Books, Bands, Booze and More!

Dec 13 - Electric Literature

Authors on Amazon’s “Bare-Knuckle Approach” to Christmas Sales

Dec 13 - Electric Literature

DIRTY! DIRTY! DIRTY! A High Speed Book Tour (part VI)

Dec 13 - Electric Literature

Hipster Hero: Who Was Really Behind Buddy Holly’s Glasses?

Dec 13 - Electric Literature

Freerange Nonfiction for Woodstock Animal Sanctuary

Dec 12 - Electric Literature

Symbols in Literature

Dec 11 - Electric Literature

New Directions’ Secret to Success

Dec 10 - Electric Literature

Paris Review Winter Issue Release Party

Dec 9 - Electric Literature

DIRTY! DIRTY! DIRTY! A High Speed Book Tour (part V)

Dec 9 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo

Dec 8 - Electric Literature

DIRTY! DIRTY! DIRTY! A High Speed Book Tour (part IV)

Dec 8 - Electric Literature

Meanwhile, in California… Miranda July Reflects on “It Chooses You” at the LA Central Library

Dec 7 - Electric Literature

Readers to Watch Out For at B&N

Dec 7 - Electric Literature

DIRTY! DIRTY! DIRTY! A High Speed Book Tour (part III)

Dec 7 - Electric Literature

Amazon: How the Grinch Stole Christmas Sales

Dec 7 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: Randy Bradley by Jake Bohstedt Morrill

Dec 7 - Electric Literature

Your 10 Favorite Words

Dec 7 - Electric Literature

What Writers Read This Year

Dec 7 - Electric Literature

DIRTY! DIRTY! DIRTY! A High Speed Book Tour (part II)

Dec 6 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… Brokaw is Bringing Gravitas Back

Dec 5 - Electric Literature

DIRTY! DIRTY! DIRTY! A high speed book tour (part I)

Dec 5 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: 420 Characters by Lou Beach

Dec 5 - Electric Literature

For the Love of Joan Didion

Dec 1 - Electric Literature

DECEMBER MIX! Scott McClanahan, Chris Oxley, and the Holler Presents “Holler-Day Sampler”

Dec 1 - Electric Literature

Judson Merrill Goes to Career Day

Dec 1 - Electric Literature

Granta: “Horror” at B&N with Don DeLillo and Paul Auster

Nov 30 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… Fiction on Two Wheels

Nov 28 - Electric Literature

ORGY — Independent Press Night at The Old American Can Factory

Nov 25 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: Zone One by Colson Whitehead

Nov 25 - Electric Literature

Three Muppet Conflicts & How They Were Resolved

Nov 23 - Electric Literature

Roberto Bolaño and ZOMBIES!

Nov 22 - Electric Literature

Meanwhile, in California… The Nervous Breakdown at Book Soup

Nov 21 - Electric Literature

Interview with Brad Listi of the “Other People with Brad Listi” Podcast

Nov 21 - Electric Literature

It’s Pat! …Nixon — Ann Beattie in Conversation with Edmund White at McNally Jackson

Nov 18 - Electric Literature

Appetite for Redaction

Nov 18 - Electric Literature

2011 National Book Awards Madness!

Nov 17 - Electric Literature

National Book Awards Finalists Reading at The New School

Nov 16 - Electric Literature

Under 35, Under the Influence

Nov 16 - Electric Literature

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE! Electric Lit at Franklin Park

Nov 16 - Electric Literature

I Shall Not Hate — Dr. Abuelaish at the Forest Hills Jewish Center

Nov 14 - Electric Literature

Mischief and Mayhem with Justin Vivian Bond & Laurie Weeks

Nov 14 - Electric Literature

Hudson River Loft Reading Series!

Nov 14 - Electric Literature

NERDS! NERDS! NERDS!: Nerd Jeopardy Presented By FSG

Nov 13 - Electric Literature

LDM #40!

Nov 11 - Electric Literature

MIXER: Maureen McLane, Karen Russell, Nina-Marie Gardner & Motherwell Johnston

Nov 11 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… Read, Reread, Reveal: Matt Kish’s Moby Dick

Nov 7 - Electric Literature

Interview with Chloe Caldwell, Curator of the Hudson River Loft Reading Series

Nov 4 - Electric Literature

The Moth Raises the Roof

Nov 4 - Electric Literature

NANOWRIMO Mix by Electric Literature

Nov 3 - Electric Literature

Murakami Madness at Symphony Space

Nov 3 - Electric Literature

When You Show Your Strings

Nov 3 - Electric Literature

THE HORROR! Granta 117 Brooklyn Launch at Greenlight

Nov 2 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… What Do You Want to Know?

Oct 31 - Electric Literature

Meanwhile, in California: Norman Rush Discusses “Subtle Bodies”

Oct 31 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: Ghost Lights by Lydia Millet

Oct 29 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan

Oct 28 - Electric Literature

Meanwhile, In California… Justin Chin at City Lights

Oct 28 - Electric Literature

Getting Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! at The Museum of Sex with Mike Edison

Oct 28 - Electric Literature

SOLITARY — A Public Space Issue 14 Launch Party

Oct 28 - Electric Literature

OCCUPY WALL ST.: We’re Getting On and the Zero Emission Book Project

Oct 26 - Electric Literature

Getting More Rooster at LDM in San Diego

Oct 21 - Electric Literature

The Best Loft Party in Manhattan

Oct 21 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

Oct 18 - Electric Literature

AURAL PLEASURE — Best American Short Stories at Selected Shorts

Oct 17 - Electric Literature

Judson Merrill Applies to the Iowa MFA

Oct 17 - Electric Literature

44 Booker Prizes in Brief

Oct 17 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: Luminous Airplanes by Paul La Farge

Oct 14 - Electric Literature

Wilfrid Sheed’s Office Politics Reconsidered

Oct 14 - Electric Literature

LDM at Drom in NYC

Oct 13 - Electric Literature

Nocturnes at Franklin Park

Oct 12 - Electric Literature

Holden Caulfield + Esther Greenwood =

Oct 12 - Electric Literature

From P-Town: Either You Did or You Didn’t

Oct 11 - Electric Literature

The First Weekend of Litquake: San Francisco’s Annual Literary Festival

Oct 10 - Electric Literature

Preaching the Gospel of Scott McClanahan

Oct 8 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: Mule by Tony D’Souza

Oct 5 - Electric Literature

Riding With Jesus XVI: a badbadbad tour blog

Oct 5 - Electric Literature

The Narrows Launch at Hudson Urban Bicycles

Oct 4 - Electric Literature

Too Hot to Handle — Literary Karaoke Does Banned Books

Oct 4 - Electric Literature

OCTOBER MIX by Rick Moody

Oct 3 - Electric Literature

REVIEW: badbadbad by Jesus Angel Garcia

Sep 30 - Electric Literature

I Hope I’m Objectified

Sep 30 - Electric Literature

Nathan Englander’s Lonesome Drive

Sep 28 - Electric Literature

Doing Drugs with Gary Indiana & Melissa Febos

Sep 26 - Electric Literature

From P-Town… House Hunting with Annie Proulx

Sep 23 - Electric Literature

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