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 blinked in a while. […]
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 with. She loves dark […]
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), L’etat des sentiment a […]
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 own. But as her […]
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 his father must confront […]
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 poetic instrument and also […]
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 isolated mom and a […]
The creative writing senior student has been writing the novel since his sophomore year, but the long editing, publishing, and writing process has finally paid off. Contributed by Reece Craven Reece A. Caven is a senior at the University of Iowa studying creative writing. Caven decided he wanted to pursue writing while attending basic training […]
He Read His Dying Mother’s Diaries, and Spun Them Into a Novel In “Elaine,” Will Self conjures a 1950s housewife who bears a striking resemblance to the woman who raised him. The diaries left by his mother included her thoughts on marriage, sex, and her sons’ personalities, Will Self said. It was not always a […]
opinionated commentary on literary matters – from the complete review 12 September 2024 – Thursday Singapore Literature Prize | Prix Sade finalists Prize-winning historical fiction | Russian publishing abroad Singapore Literature Prize They’ve announced the (many) winners of this year’s Singapore Literature Prize — impressive, because books in several languages are honored, with fiction winners […]
