Book Launch with Mary Gaitskill: Friday, Nov. 21 at Books Are Magic

“I don't know how it is, I seem to be always writing about myself.” The comic opening to this Ch. 6 of Bleak House has such a modern edge. I also noticed the chapter subtitle, "Signs and Tokens" and...

Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of What Mennonite Girls Are Good For by Jennifer Sears, which will be published on November 25, 2025 by the University of Iowa Press. You can pre-order your copy here. At the heart of What Mennonite Girls Are Good For is Ruthie’s lonely search for love and […] The post Exclusive Cover Reveal of “What Mennonite Girls Are Good For” by Jennifer Sears appeared first on Electric Literature.

Cover reveal on Electric Literature and a bit on the book's undercurrents......

“Fifteen and a half….. I can see it’s all there...."

An escape into tears. . .

“Stop this war. . .” the last line of dialogue is Athena’s command to Odysseus. Coming at the end, the shape of the Odyssey/Wilson’s translation can read like a meditation on humanity's blood thirst a...

“. . .mumble, mumble, lyrical wave, mumble, lyrical wave, mumble, lyrical wave, mumble, fantastic climax, mumble, mumble. . .”

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Book 13, lines 188-440

“It will be a slippery narrative composed in an unremitting continuous tense, absolute, devouring the present as it goes, all the way to the final image of a life.” from Annie Ernaux’s The Years

Bill Evans · You Must Believe In Spring (Remastered Version) · Song · 1981

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Stoic meditation of the day: “To be upset about such things is as absurd as complaining about being splashed in the bathhouse or jostled in a public place or soiled on a muddy road. Life imposes the ...

We asked 10 writers — including Hernan Diaz, Jennifer Egan and Casey McQuiston — to recommend books that capture their particular slice of life in New York.