Electric Literature
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Reading into everything.
Kingston, NY
Joined August 2009
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“Most parents don’t discuss my price. They simply pay.”
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Can a marriage survive when one partner gives up their writing dreams while the other does not?
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"The Cybertruck is a statement—but about what, exactly? That our lives will be governed by people who believe aggressively angular shapes are inherently futuristic?" (via @mcsweeneys)
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“The point was that I was young, and when you are young, she said, you can’t get in much trouble if you’re well-dressed and white and female.”
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“To be a half-century on our land unbothered: the dream!”
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🎉 Love ebooks but want to support indies? Our sponsor @Bookshop_Org just launched their ebook store! Get digital reads while giving back to local bookstores. Link:
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"If everything that makes us irreducible to algorithms, everything that is too complex to turn into numbers on spreadsheets, is dismissed and ignored—humanity will be over." (via @lithub)
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Finally, a crossword puzzle that doesn't expect you to know any thing about sports
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These contemporary metafictional books offer both immersion in story and provocation about the boundaries of storytelling itself.
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If the protagonist is a man with a job related to publishing, that’s literary fiction. If the main character is a woman with a job related to publishing, that’s genre fiction.
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“Softcore” author Brittany Newell on liminal spaces and the possibilities created by disguise
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🎥 Learn everything about movie scripts in Kyle Rankin's introduction to screenwriting class: "Scr!pt Happens!" Starting Saturday, March 1st! Hosted by our partner @WritingWorkshps—learn more and sign up here:
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A list celebrating brilliant Asian diaspora authors writing from or about the American Midwest
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“Mother, I’m not Chiyojo. I’m a dimwitted little imitation literary girl.”
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These books read simultaneously as acts of penance and reverence and blasphemy, and all are haunted by Catholicism’s ghost
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“I am grateful for trans celebrities because they serve as a mirror for me, and I am humbled by the victims of anti-trans violence because they remind me of what I have to lose.”
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These books about the realities of living on a farm go beyond idyllic pastoral fantasies.
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Edgar Gomez on imagining a better, untouchable life after getting veneers as a teenager (@OtroEdgarGomez)
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"It would be easy for me to compare my own Asian Southernness to bad improv, a mug’s game of representations in which what I’m taken for is rarely what I am."
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Exciting, wide-ranging debut poetry collections you’ll want to look out for this year.
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