Imagine if the suffering chef of The Bear were physically becoming, well, a bear. Imagine if in his journey through…
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Fall is a huge release season for books. Indie bookstores across the country are jam packed with new titles, and…
For a long time, I’ve described my writing as “spooky literary”—the term that seems closest to the pulse of this…
Back in the ‘80s, crack was a boogeyman come to life. It played on the minds of neighborhood kids like…
Memory is a tricky thing. For one, not everyone will have the same memory of the same event. For another,…
Love Is a Stone That Won’t Sink So Long, Oblivion Like a dollar I am depreciating all the time. Like…
When you hear the title Brooklyn Crime Novel, you might automatically think of genres involving mystery — whodunnit, noir, hardboiled,…
Craft is often thought of as the backbone of literature, the scientific and mathematical side of the creative process that…
We live in a moment where debt invokes the crushing weight of student loans, medical bills, mortgages, and all the…
If You Were Dead, You’d Be Obsessed with Death Too Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi Share article Extinction by Azareen…
As a kid confused about gender expression, I found the idea of trying on another body very appealing. Growing up…
Zimbabwe is a former settler colony and, as such, contains multiples. This is why I have always felt compelled to…
There’s something inherently charged and dramatic about a dinner party—various individuals, couples, or families coming together to share a meal,…
Reading Terrace Story is finding yourself delighted to be in the fairytale, even when you know the witch is coming…
Here at Electric Lit, we’re suckers for a good bookshelf. Any kind of bookshelf! Alphabetized shelves, color-coded shelves, shelves that…
My daughter was ten months old when I abandoned her for the first time, for five days. I went to…
Writing about pop culture and current technology is always a gamble, pitting critique of the present against longevity, a story…
Father’s Gone and So Is His Arm Worrying About Father’s Arm How will we solve the problem of how Father…