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Etgar Keret’s First Short Story 26 Aug 2013 | 09:52 pm
At Tablet, acclaimed Israeli author Etgar Keret describes how his literary career began during his mandatory military service in one of the “most heavily guarded army bases in Israel.” “The fact that...
Emily’s Electric Atlas 23 Aug 2013 | 07:54 pm
Click to view slideshow. It was kind of like summer, but not really: a group of hot artists showcasing some of their best work at WORD for a reading hosted by Electric Literature, Emily Books, and...
How Ray Bradbury Got His Start 22 Aug 2013 | 06:33 pm
Today, Ray Bradbury would be 93 years-old. In the video below, Bradbury, the celebrated author of Fahrenheit 451, discusses his early years of rejection and above all persistence. “I wasn’t writing e...
REVIEW: Byzantium by Ben Stroud 19 Aug 2013 | 05:37 pm
Any slush pile reader can tell you how often we see gimmicks masquerading as short stories, faux-histories and parody articles that create (or try to create) fictional worlds, too often without any pa...
Happy 93rd Birthday, Bukowski 16 Aug 2013 | 05:27 pm
Today, Charles Bukowski would be 93 years-old. Given his reputation for vice, one can only imagine how he’d celebrate (and it is really fun to imagine). HarperCollins is celebrating with a whole mess ...
Letters from a Young Whatever #7: How to Write Your First Book in 33 Easy Steps 16 Aug 2013 | 02:54 am
1. After you move back home to work on your novel, slump into a depression. Feel like nothing really matters. Open up MS Word a lot but don’t type much. Make a video for one of the two stories you wro...
Sergio De La Pava Wins $25,000 Prize 14 Aug 2013 | 11:43 pm
PEN America just announced that Sergio De La Pava, author of The Naked Singularity, has won the 2013 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. The annual $25,000 prize goes to an author “whose debut work—a first n...
One of the Best Moments of My Life 14 Aug 2013 | 06:18 pm
We released a brand new issue of Recommended Reading today, “You Are the Stepson” by Matt Dojny. In her introduction, Halimah Marcus, Electric Literature’s Co-Editor, says it reads “as if the story wa...
Typographic Charles Dickens 13 Aug 2013 | 06:14 pm
Artist Juan Osborne spins “you are what you eat” into “you are what you write” in his typographic portrait of Charles Dickens. Osborne counted the words from 50 Dickens books, including Oliver Twist a...
Hide the Kids from Kids’ Movies 13 Aug 2013 | 05:56 pm
Let’s face the ugly truth: uplifting kids’ movies—the ones where elephants fly and turbo-charged snails can achieve their high-velocity dreams—are simply unrealistic. “Almost uniformly, the protagonis...
