Electric Literature

Electric Literature is an independent publishing house established by Andy Hunter and Scott Lindenbaum in 2009, initially serving as a quarterly journal. It was the first to introduce a fiction magazine specifically designed for the iPhone and iPad. The print edition of the journal is created using a print on demand model.

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7 Southern Gothic Books Set in Small Towns - Electric Literature

1 week ago | electricliterature.com

These writers reveal insidious legacies lurking beneath charming facades
Trump's Latest Attack on the NEA

1 week ago | electricliterature.com | Halimah Marcus

news Every story a writer tells is one this Administration cannot control Dear Reader, Late Friday night, Electric Literature—along with at least 40 other literary arts organizations— received a notice from the National Endowment for the Arts that our 2025 grant has been terminated. The reason given was that our work does not “reflect the nation’s rich artistic heritage and creativity as prioritized by the President.” This morning, the NEA’s literary arts staff announced their last day would...
Why Electric Literature Is Leaving Twitter

2 weeks ago | electricliterature.com | Halimah Marcus

Dear Reader,Electric Literature is leaving Twitter today. Back in 2009, we made our grand entrance serializing a short story by Rick Moody, written in 180-character segments specifically for the platform. We were the first to publish a story to Twitter (three years later, The New Yorker followed suit), and the experiment was covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the LA Times, Entertainment Weekly, and PBS. Moody’s story holds up.
11 Small Press Books You Should Be Reading This Spring

3 weeks ago | electricliterature.com | Wendy Fox

Reading Lists Pack these titles in a tote and head to the park for some quality springtime reading Writers—even if working in fiction—are often concerned about what is happening in the larger world. Though it takes time to see a book through from manuscript to hitting the shelves, the ones featured here have a finger on the pulse of our contemporary moment and take time to explore the deeper nuances of human connections. From the tragedies of American history and the terrors of dictatorship,...
In “The Seers,” Sex Is Liberation - Electric Literature

4 weeks ago | electricliterature.com | Courtney DuChene

For Sulaiman Addonia’s characters, sex is often a site of self discovery, of liberation, and homecoming. His books center the experiences of refugees, exploring their joy alongside their rage at colonial systems. His frank writing about sex creates space for the importance of intimacy and desire in his characters’ lives, even as they encounter hate and violence. The Consequences of Love, his debut novel, is a Romeo and Juliet story set in Saudi Arabia.
In Palestine, Searching for the Remains of My Grandmother’s Village

4 weeks ago | electricliterature.com | Sarah Aziza

Author’s note: This excerpt includes references to my grandmother’s village of ‘Ibdis, which was ethnically cleansed by Zionist armies in the Nakba of 1948. My father glimpsed the rubble of ʿIbdis once before, when he was able to cross over from the Gaza Strip with his mother in the 1970s. However, ongoing erasure threatens even these remains. In 2012, I spent the summer of my sophomore year volunteering at a Palestinian charity in the West Bank city of Nablus.
10 Novels Exploring Complicated Feelings About Ambition

1 month ago | electricliterature.com | Emma Pattee

In a novel (and in life), ambition is a potent force. To want, to want, to want. It is the gasoline fueling a character to do and say all sorts of craziness. But like any explosive force, ambition – especially unfulfilled ambition – is toxic. Eats away at you. And yet, what is ambition really? Is it an individual’s honorable quest, as some say, to simply live out the totality of their potential? Or, is ambition merely a byproduct of a society that cannot separate being from having?
8 Books About Girls Growing Up on the Internet

1 month ago | electricliterature.com | Allie Rowbottom |George Wylesol |Julia Wertz |Andy Anderegg

Reading Lists These novels explore what it means to come of age in the online generation I’ve watched so many hours of video, maybe you have too, and I’ve seen people on the internet rise and fall, disappear. I’ve wondered about them after, millions of us have. I’ve even uploaded a few videos myself, but when two comments came through about my glasses, I took it as a turning point. Either I was going to tell them my prescription and shoot a video where I took my glasses on and off, like...
Andrea Long Chu on the Art of Loving and Hating Books

1 month ago | electricliterature.com | Angela Hui

In her new essay collection, Authority, Andrea Long Chu calls one writer a “sundowning reactionary,” accuses another of having “an unstoppable, pathological urge to tell on themself,” and asserts that a certain novelist “is one of those writers who think they have discovered, always freshly and for the first time, that women are people.”Chu, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2023, acknowledges that she’s been “vicious” to the subjects of her critique.
Finally, a Novel That Understands the Raw Sex Appeal of Airplanes

1 month ago | electricliterature.com | Angela Hui

It wouldn’t be wrong to call Kate Folk’s debut novel Sky Daddy a marriage plot. The protagonist, Linda, has had numerous lovers, but she wants to settle down. She’s looking for a “fine gentleman” who’s sleek, strong, and ready to commit, and she already has her dream wedding planned: hurtling to her death in the “aluminum embrace” of her beloved. Linda is sexually attracted exclusively to aircraft.