Electric Literature

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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  • 1 week 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?

  • 1 week 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...

  • 1 week 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.

  • 2 weeks 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.

  • 2 weeks ago | electricliterature.com | Samuel Ashworth

    Reading Lists We’re inundated with chef content in film and television, but where are the novels?