Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of Leave: A Postpartum Account by Shayne Terry , which will be published by Autofocus Books on February 25, 2025. You can pre-order your copy here . Shayne Terry’s fourth trimester is not going as planned. Instead of bonding with her new baby, she’s stuck on the […]
Bertha Mason, the famous “madwoman in the attic,” in “Jane Eyre.” In Bertha’s groans, Dionne Brand writes, we can hear the suffering of the enslaved under Britain’s colonial rule. SALVAGE: Readings From the Wreck , by Dionne Brand Dionne Brand is a poet, novelist and essayist who was born in Trinidad and moved to Canada […]
Jason Reitman is on a barnstorming tour for Saturday Night , telling everyone about his amazing week in 2008 as an SNL guest writer. Guest writer? How does that work exactly? Do you book a session like an Airbnb? Does Lorne Michaels bring you in like a lecturer in Copenhagen? Turns out Reitman isn’t alone […]
Cuthbert’s third book, Self-Made Monsters, is a hybrid collection of feminist horror, and contains stories and poems featuring women as villains and victims, as bystanders and enablers, exploring the quiet moments of magic and horror in women’s lives. FREDONIA – Writers have their own ways of getting their words onto the page. For Rebecca Cuthbert, […]
Jason Reitman is on a barnstorming tour for Saturday Night , telling everyone about his amazing week in 2008 as an SNL guest writer. Guest writer? How does that work exactly? Do you book a session like an Airbnb? Does Lorne Michaels bring you in like a lecturer in Copenhagen? Turns out Reitman isn’t alone […]
Wisconsin author Laura Anne Bird (left) shares her novels with WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” host Kate Archer Kent before an interview in Madison. Wisconsin author Laura Anne Bird grew up reading voraciously, but she missed seeing her home state reflected in pages of the books she gobbled up. “To be able to say, ‘I live there’ […]
Introduction by Halimah Marcus Share article Oct 7, 2024 Issue No 647 The Life of a Muse Is No Life at All Written by Alysandra Dutton Recommended by Halimah Marcus Reading “Sophy” by Alysandra Dutton, art history majors and avid museum goers may recognize John Everett Millais, a founder of the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and his […]
Photo by Thomas Franke via Unsplash There’s nothing more delicate than a line. In the world of my Triple Sonnets, my lines consist of approximately ten syllables each, mimicking our natural speaking pattern of saying ten syllables and then pausing. I love the tightness of this line—how plot, conceit, and yes, romance , are brought […]
A new middle-grade novel by award-winning Pete Hautman, two mysteries and a horror anthology. Who could ask for anything more on an autumn Sunday? (Courtesy of Candlewick Press) “Answers to Dog”: by Pete Hautman (Candlewick Press, $18.99) The summer before Pete Hautman started fourth grade, everything he read was about dogs and boys. Now a […]
AI Writing Generators Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have come a long way in a short amount of time. These technologies were traditionally limited to tasks that were clearly laid out with guidelines. However, they are now capable of carrying out creative tasks like writing. There are many options when it comes to AI writing software, […]
