What Science Can Learn from Constipated Dogs
The first time I picked up Gulliver’s Travels, I was working in a protein production lab. I’d just gotten home after a painfully long day, half...
How Do You Even Get Started Writing a Book?
The Blunt Instrument is an advice column for writers. If you need tough advice for a writing problem, send your question to [email protected]. For early access...
Spring 2019 Horoscopes for Writers
In spring, all things are made new — but this is also an opportunity to review the intentions we set at the beginning of the calendar year. In...
Is He Doing Absolutely Nothing or Is He a Genius?
An Excerpt from ‘Trust Exercise’ by Susan Choi The English People were a performing troupe from a high school in Bournemouth, a city in England. They were...
“The New Me” Explores the Anxiety of a Life Defined by A 9–5 Office Job
Jillian captured the complexities of anger and jealousy, disgruntlement and disgust so pristinely, you can’t help but be rapt, laughing along as Butler described social situations...
7 Thrilling Novels About Espionage
My novel started with an image that popped into my mind: it was of a black female protagonist who is a typical suburban mother — or so it...
Liking Books Is Not a Personality
Do you remember, back in 2017, when reversing your books for aesthetic appeal was briefly a thing? Apartment Therapy posted a photo to Instagram of a bookshelf with the spines...
W.S. Merwin, Surrounded by Green
The poet W. S. Merwin recently died, leaving us with more than 50 books of poetry and prose and a legacy that wove together his interest...
Welcome to Electric Literature’s New Website
Welcome to the new Electric Literature website! No, you’re not lost. This is the same Electric Literature you know and love, only with a new outfit...
Ferlinghetti at 100: An Appreciation
Yes, Lawrence Ferlinghetti is still alive. And yes, he’s still writing, superbly. On the eve of his 100th birthday—it arrives Sunday, March 24—the poet laureate of...
