Set in Los Angeles, All-Night Pharmacy follows a young woman who both idolizes and resents her older sister, Debbie, for…
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Open Throat wields its language both as a salve and scalpel. The novel follows its unforgettable narrator—a queer, lonely mountain…
In a work of fiction, place is a character, but unlike mortal characters and their short lives, places are seemingly…
Sarah Rose Etter loves to write women with surreal maladies. The Book of X, which won the Shirley Jackson Award…
The age of the boyfriend has ended. Give yours away. Donate him to charity or, if he doesn’t have too…
Hey Siri, Cure My Postpartum Depression Dear Siri My son says you’re listening so you might tell us what we…
I was a single parent when I got married on my lunch break. Taking a day off from my unruly…
Photo by said alamri / UnsplashImmigration, detention, unequal payare modern words for slavery again.Dictatorship, borders. Any impositionof one’s will over…
At 5:15 in the morning, I tiptoe across my kitchen floor and pray it doesn’t squeak in that one spot…
Today, the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust announces the shortlist for the second annual Ursula K. Le Guin Prize…
Roman floor mosaic with scene from the Odyssey / Photo by Jamie Heath / FlickrIn Homer, Humanism, Holocaust: Jewish Responses…
Many of my experiences in the Marines were equally as ugly and terrifying as a classic gothic haunted house. My…
I’m the Wrong Ghost for This Haunting Ren Arcamone Share article The Difficulty of Getting Through to You by Ren…
Zuzanna Ginczanka in April 1938 / Muzeum Literatury / East NewsHistory displaced Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917–1944) from birth. Born in Kiev…
Kathleen Cheng is having a hell of a Saturn Return. The late-20s protagonist of Jenny Xie’s debut novel Holding Pattern…
Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover for Jennifer Croft’s The Extinction of Irena Rey, which will be published by…
In 2019 Sarah Viren’s wife, Marta, was subject to a Title IX investigation for sexual misconduct. The allegations, which appeared via…
I don’t know about y’all, but I love rewatching a performance after I learn that something catastrophic has gone down…