Addie Tsai

Aug 27, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Addie Tsai

Since its birth, Frankenstein has never lost its allure in adaptive possibilities. The novel was first adapted to the stage by Richard Brinsley Peake in 1823, just five years after the first edition of the novel was published in 1818. It’s widely known that Shelley herself attended a performance and was bemused by how he brought her masterpiece to life, even though she found it “not well managed.” Peake strips the Creature of voice and contributes the line, It lives!.

Jan 24, 2024 | vabook.org | Henry Hoke |SJ Sindu |Addie Tsai

Event March 24, 2024 11:30AM – 1PM Along with other farmers, Brooks Lamb—author, farmer, and advocate—discusses farmland loss from suburban sprawl, rampant agricultural consolidation, and racial injustice among farmers of color in his new book Love for the Land. Event March 22, 2024 4PM – 5PM The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia is hosting their annual meeting during the Festival.

Oct 31, 2023 | electricliterature.com | Addie Tsai

“The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover”—Mary ShelleyI skipped the day we discussed Frankenstein in my Romantics Literature seminar in my sophomore year of college. It was the late 90s, a time when email existed but was only used for the most urgent and timely emergencies, text messaging was charged per send, and a professor could still reasonably request that you make up for a missed class by visiting them during office hours.

Jun 19, 2023 | porcupineliterary.com | Addie Tsai

By Addie TsaiI know that this is a letter I will never send.

Mar 23, 2023 | electricliterature.com | Addie Tsai

essays Like “Ranma ½,” my gender euphoria transcends the limits of masculine and feminine This essay, by Addie Tsai, is the first in Electric Literature’s new limited essay series, Both/And, which centers the voices of trans and gender nonconforming writers of color. For the next fifteen weeks, on Thursday, EL will publish an installment of Both/And, with the series running through spring and into Pride Month. At a time when my community (the trans community) is a political target for the...