My major takeaway when I saw The Texas Chainsaw Massacre as a kid, with its documentary-style intercuts of cattle and…
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Compulsively Trying to Please People Who Never Liked Me Jessi Jezewska Stevens Share article A New Book of Grotesques by…
Not very long ago, a description of our current moment would have read like a dystopian premise: a planet afflicted…
In his 1917 essay “Art as Device,†Russian formalist Viktor Shklovsky coined the term “defamiliarization†as a goal of the…
I went to a high school with about 1700 students and only 30 of them were Black. My Mama lived…
Electric Literature is please to reveal the cover of Beautiful Dreamers, the highly anticipated fourth novel by Minrose Gwin, which…
As the new owner of the Coral Shores Veterinary Hospital, Dr. Emily Benton is in over her head. When she…
When I was ghostwriting full-time, I produced twenty books in fourteen years. Thanks to a suggestion from my literary agent,…
“The Club†by Jarek Steele The club is situated in a warehouse district near downtown St. Louis, a low building…
Ah yes. Literature. The vehicle through which we may explore faraway lives we would have otherwise never imagined. From my…
Rush Week at Kappa Kappa Murder The Roommates Every year, on the third weekend in October, there’s a vigil for…
Dr. Amina Gautier’s short story collection, The Best That You Can Do, refuses to be fixed in place, dancing across…
“Love is a fire,†Joan Crawford warns us, “but whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down…
Domestic thrillers hinge, frequently, on a romantic relationship gone wrong. Anger, obsession, lust. But the dark bonds between siblings can…
Fitting In Will Cost You Your Soul Emma Binder Share article In the Heart of the Village by Emma Binder…
Every Lunar New Year, Chinese astrology welcomes a new animal into our lives, representing a new year, a new character,…
The titular story in Jillian Danback-McGhan’s short story collection Midwatch opens with two depictions of Ashleigh via two photos used…
Aotearoa New Zealand’s literary scene has always punched above its weight, with our Pacific nation producing luminaries like Katherine Mansfield,…