My Mother Wrote Her Own Ending
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Why David Cameron Should Read “Empireland”
So in the fall of 2015, I went after David Cameron. Not in person, or in any print or visual media (the Daily Mail would have...
A Walk in Keats’s Footsteps
1. In the late afternoon of Sunday, September 19, 1819, 23-year-old John Keats struck out for his daily walk from his lodging in Winchester, England. He’d...
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When I sat down to write Users five years ago, I had no intention of writing a particularly topical novel. At the time, a story about...
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When I began writing, I imitated. I didn’t know what writing involved, but if it was a craft, then imitation seemed an intuitive place to begin....
The Exuberant Diversity of Ukrainian Literature
When Russia invaded Ukraine one year ago, the region of Sumy, just northeast of Kyiv, came under intense bombardment, endangering the house where Anton Chekhov spent...
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In their Grammy-winning comeback song “Not Ready to Make Nice,” the (formerly Dixie) Chicks sing, “They say time heals everything but I’m still waiting.” The lyrics...
Escaping Society by Living on Top of a Coca-Cola Billboard
In Maria José Ferrada’s lucid, minimalist How to Turn into a Bird, Ramón’s job is to take care of a Coca-Cola billboard in a Chilean community....
Exclusive Cover Reveal: Isle McElroy’s “People Collide”
Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover for acclaimed writer Isle McElroy’s sophomore novel, People Collide, which will be published by HarperCollins this September. When...
Four Ways of Looking at a Campus Murder
Excerpt from I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai “You’ve heard of her,” I say—a challenge, an assurance. To the woman on the neighboring...
