Kiersten White: Sometimes Ideas Are Worth Waiting For

Kiersten White: Sometimes Ideas Are Worth Waiting For

Reading Time: 1 Min. Kiersten White is the #1 New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning, and critically acclaimed author of many books for readers of all ages, including the And I Darken trilogy, Star Wars: Padawan , Hide , Mister Magic , and Lucy Undying . Her books have been published in over 20 […]

Kelsey Rae Dimberg: Pay Attention to What Excites You

Kelsey Rae Dimberg: Pay Attention to What Excites You

Reading Time: 1 Min. Kelsey Rae Dimberg is the author of Girl in the Rearview Mirror. She received an MFA from the University of San Francisco. Before writing novels, she wrote copy for startups like Google and Groupon. She lives in Chicago. Follow her on Instagram . In this interview, Kelsey discusses how throwing out […]

Writing Around the Phases of the Moon

Writing Around the Phases of the Moon

Reading Time: 1 Min. As I sit down to write, burning through my typical one-hundred-reasons-not to, I am struck by the energy of the coffee shop around me. It’s 2 p.m. on a Monday. The woman next to me looks normal enough, but there’s a flare of something wild in her eyes, like she hasn’t […]

Ann Rose: On Loving the Wrong Person for You

Ann Rose: On Loving the Wrong Person for You

Reading Time: 1 Min. Ann Rose is a typical Taurus—loyal but stubborn, which means being an author is perfect. While asking the private group chat for ideas on what to include in this bio, Ann was reminded that some of her greatest qualities are her awesome best friends from high school—a fact she couldn’t argue […]

Speak/Stop

Speak/Stop

Reading Time: 1 Min. Excerpt Noémi Lefebvre (trans. Sophie Lewis) September 18, 2024 The following is from Noémi Lefebvre’s Speak/Stop . Lefebvre was born in 1964 in Caen, and now lives in Lyon, France. She is the author of four novels, all of which have garnered intense critical success: her debut novel Blue Self-Portrait (2009), […]

“Madwoman” is the Essential Novel About the Cycle of Domestic Abuse

“Madwoman” is the Essential Novel About the Cycle of Domestic Abuse

Reading Time: 1 Min. Chelsea Bieker’s new novel Madwoman opens with a two-sentence mic drop: “The world is not made for mothers. Yet mothers made the world.” What follows is the story of Clove, a young mother in the Pacific Northwest fervently attempting to outrun her violent childhood by creating a perfect family of her […]

Exclusive Cover Reveal of “When the Harvest Comes” by Denne Michele Norris

Exclusive Cover Reveal of “When the Harvest Comes” by Denne Michele Norris

Reading Time: 1 Min. Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of When the Harvest Comes by editor-in-chief Denne Michele Norris, which will be published by Random House on April 15, 2025. You can pre-order your copy here . In this heart-wrenching debut novel, a young Black gay man reckoning with the death of […]

On Nate Lippens

On Nate Lippens

Reading Time: 1 Min. Paul VanDerWerf from Brunswick, Maine, USA, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons . I’ve been reading Nate Lippens for years. I think this is the third time I’ve read My Dead Book and I’m finally getting a grip on what kind of machine his writing is. I think it’s a […]

Inside the Heated Controversy That’s Tearing a Writing Community Apart

Inside the Heated Controversy That’s Tearing a Writing Community Apart

Reading Time: 1 Min. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Nigel Stripe/Getty Images Plus and Kody King/Getty Images Plus. It was an emotionally dark and stormy night in 2020 when I had the urge to write a novel. I’d been having panic attacks. To work through it, I decided to write a novel about an […]

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