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I’ve been on leave from teaching this year, so it’s been a uniquely good 12 months of reading for me, a year when I’ve read for...

A year-end letter from Electric Literature’s executive director Dear Reader, As I prepared to write this letter, in which, full disclosure, I will eventually ask you...

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Staff and contributors recommend their favorite short fiction of the year Short story collections sometimes get treated as training wheels for novels, as if novel-writing is the...

Bees evolved from wasp ancestors around 100 million years ago. Most wasps are sleek carnivores, but bees are flower-loving, long-haired, and often social vegetarians (the branched...

1937 Beckett got stabbed by pliant spear of a stranger, one Paris night. Source : War Song

I launched a debut novel and bought three to five books at every store where I read on tour, so I struggle to even start to...

Ten questions about teaching writing with the author of “Jell-O Girls” I n our monthly series Can Writing Be Taught? we partner with Catapult to ask their...

Much has been said and written about the “toxic masculinity” of the far right and white supremacy, but on the other side is a toxic femininity...

Shonen Jump has possibly changed the manga distribution game. The company posted to Twitter about releasing their manga chapter by chapter, online, starting December 17. Specifically,...