The road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. For years we’ve been told that the censorious Left is a serious threat to free speech. If Simon & Schuster cancels one book because the public (its customers) are outraged that

There were two choices for dinner at Max’s Kansas City: lobster or steak. I always ordered steak. My boyfriend favored lobster. He never paid the tab. After a year or so he gave the owner a sculpture. Max’s was just

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This is the first list I have written for Electric Literature since the tragic passing of EL’s former Deputy Editor, Jo Lou. Years ago, I wrote a small press column for BuzzFeed Books, and when that publication shuttered (an experience too common for anyone working in media), Jo helped me find a new home at […] The post 15 Small Press Books You Don’t Want to Miss This Fall appeared first on Electric Literature.

Rose Dommu’s Best Woman comes as a family drama and coming-of-age story intricately wrapped within the genre of romantic comedy. Containing all the most necessary elements — a much-anticipated return to one’s hometown, a long-held high school crush, and one little lie that snowballs into much more—the novel chronicles Julia Rosenberg’s pilgrimage from New York […] The post A Trans Rom-Com That Navigates the Very Gendered Dynamics of a Wedding appeared first on Electric Literature.

Le devoir et la tâche d’un écrivain sont ceux d’un traducteur. –Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé * The duty and the task of a writer are those of a translator. –The Past Recaptured, translated by Frederick A. Blossom * The

Near the beginning of The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein breaks off abruptly to address her reader—“but truly,” she adds, “I never feel it that there ever can be for me any such a creature, no it is this scribbled

My family had once been proud of me. In March 2011, my sister Terry went to the trouble of stuffing Post‑it notes into every issue of O, the Oprah Magazine in the checkout line of her grocery store, noting, “My

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While the golden Dome of the Rock sweltered under one-hundred-degree heat a gang of heavily armed orthodox Israelis marched on a Palestinian library. Brandishing forged documents falsely claiming their ownership of the building, they enlisted the help of Israeli police

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Some years ago, I saw Yiyun Li interviewed at an event at the Toronto Reference Library. Li, a writer whose stories are compressed and deceptively simple, spoke with humor and a certain hardness, perhaps born of the clarity of unimaginable

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One of the great Czech writers of the 20th century, Ivan Klima, died over the weekend at his home in Prague, at the age of 94. Klima lived an incredible, principled life, having survived both the Nazi concentration camp at

The Eloquence of Hot Dogs by Robyn Ryle Loretta hit print and sat back with a sigh. She’d done it. Mission accomplished. She’d solved the problem of the hot dog guy. The mayor wanted a way to get rid of the wiener vendor once and for all. He’d emailed Loretta’s boss demanding an immediate solution. […] The post Her Top Priority Is to Destroy the Hot Dog Guy appeared first on Electric Literature.

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