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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 1h

“What do they have in common besides their UV-sensitive skin? They’re all a bunch of losers.”

Their Unbearable Whiteness Blots Out the Light - Electric Literature

Mark Doten’s "Whites" is a darkly comic look at white America

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 3h

These books explore how female friendships evolve with every stage of life.

9 Books About Female Friendship in Every Decade of Life - Electric Literature

Romance has nothing on the impact of a lifelong best friend

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 4h

Mattie Lubchanky’s graphic novel “Simplicity,” is a weird, dreamy tale of monsters, orgies, oligarchs, and the impulse to separate from society. (@alexdueben.bsky.social)

A Graphic Novel That Exposes the Failures of the American Experiment - Electric Literature

In "Simplicity," Mattie Lubchansky writes about monsters, a separatist commune, and nightmarish oligarchs

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 6h

Two poems about spam bots, desire, and the need for collective action over comfort.

Psychoanalyzing Desire With a Spam Bot - Electric Literature

Two poems by Vincente Perez

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Karis Rogerson 🏳️‍🌈 @karisselizabeth.bsky.social · 1d

thanks for sharing this, @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social! it was a labor of love to write this piece for @electricliterature.com on book bans and how they hurt authors — and it was a labor of love to try to end on a uplift.

Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 1d

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 1d

Absolute dream speaking with @chelsead.bsky.social for @electricliterature.com about the great Dorothy Allison, the agency in body horror, my perpetual motion sickness, where people-pleasing gets dangerous, being your own absent babysitter, and more.

A Provocative Story Collection About Immigrants, Bodies Under Siege, and the Horror of Being Perceived - Electric Literature

Kristina Ten’s “Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine” gets spooky about girlhood

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 23h

A vampire walks into a gay bar…… okay now somebody come up with a punchline please

8 Books That Queer the Vampire - Electric Literature

These authors find creativity and liberation in hunger, desire, and depravity.

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 1d

“My sleep was hungry and unaccountable.”

Sleep Is a Runaway Train and I'm Tied to the Tracks - Electric Literature

“My Sleep” from HURRICANE ENVY by Sara Jaffe, recommended by Leni Zumas

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 1d

“I write about blackness all the time because that’s the only way I experience this world, inside of my black, female body.”

Black Language Shouldn’t Have to Be Muted for White Readers - Electric Literature

I use African-American Vernacular English for a reason, and I expect you to keep up, Karen

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 1d

“If [Mark Doten’s] ‘Whites’ is about anything, it’s about self-adoration disguised as empathy.”

Their Unbearable Whiteness Blots Out the Light - Electric Literature

Mark Doten’s "Whites" is a darkly comic look at white America

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 1d

A list that looks at the complex and contradictory life of cities, the thorniness of class and privilege, and how neighborhoods shift.

7 Books About the Precarity of Urban Life - Electric Literature

These authors examine wealth disparity, property ownership, and the collision of lives in shifting neighborhoods

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 5d

GOBLIN MODE by @carolinehagood.bsky.social made @electricliterature.com's "15 Small Press Books You Don’t Want to Miss This Fall" list! buff.ly/4as6Opz

Afterwards, fall in love with GOBLIN MODE when you treat yourself to a copy right here: bit.ly/4gJAcU3
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15 Small Press Books You Don’t Want to Miss This Fall - Electric Literature

These books ask what it means to belong, to stay or leave, or to exist in-between

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Claire Jia @clairejia.bsky.social · 5d

thank you electric literature and @wendyjfox.bsky.social for reading WANTING and writing so beautifully about it!!! 🥹💓

Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 8d

Need more small presses in your literary diet? Oh do we have the list for you!

15 Small Press Books You Don’t Want to Miss This Fall - Electric Literature

These books ask what it means to belong, to stay or leave, or to exist in-between

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 1d

For the partygoers that spend more time talking to the pets than the people.

8 Books About Wild Animal Companions - Electric Literature

From hawks to snails to octopuses, we can learn a lot from these creatures and the people who bond with them

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 2d

Disability touches all of our lives, whether we want to face that fact or not.

10 Books About the Diversity of Disabled Experiences - Electric Literature

Centering disabled people’s stories is the first step to creating a more caring world

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 2d

“A thrum races the length of your body each time the adolescent protagonists—two boys—touch; you want so badly for them to make out that, when they do, you’re so excited you pause the movie to make yourself calm down.”

I Have To Tell You Something - Electric Literature

You think: I want to be like these characters. Then you think: I am like them, even though it’s a romance between two boys.

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 2d

“A novel is a vehicle for obsession.”

The Best Ghost Stories Are Really Love Stories - Electric Literature

Carson Faust’s “If the Dead Belong Here” gives voice to the specters of familial loss

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 2d

A story about a college sophomore falling asleep all over their life. (@lenizumas.bsky.social)

Sleep Is a Runaway Train and I'm Tied to the Tracks - Electric Literature

“My Sleep” from HURRICANE ENVY by Sara Jaffe, recommended by Leni Zumas

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 2d

Today is Indigenous Peoples' Day! Who are some of your favorite Indigenous authors, whose words you keep on coming back to?

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 3d

“We never knew when she’d come to visit; she herself didn’t seem to know until she appeared suddenly in our driveway, her gas tank nearly empty.” buff.ly/x3po7wy

Take Me to the Island of Escaped Parrots - Electric Literature

Flash fiction by Maya Dobjensky

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 3d

Size doesn’t matter this fall with these stellar presses!

15 Small Press Books You Don’t Want to Miss This Fall - Electric Literature

These books ask what it means to belong, to stay or leave, or to exist in-between

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 3d

"My genitals are gone." (via @mcsweeneys.net)

The Current State of My Body

Because I am aging, my body is in decline. My knee makes a clicking sound whenever I straighten it. I can’t bend my elbow without feeling discomfor...

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 4d

“Sandro offered up a contrarian hypothesis about a preemptive launch by the US and the unspoken rage was so palpable that Zack could have sworn the room warmed several degrees.” buff.ly/F7Ehkap

The End of the World Feels Like Nothing - Electric Literature

“A Brief, Inevitable Exchange” by Billy Chew, recommended by Halimah Marcus for Electric Literature

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 4d

Stories by disabled writers and activists are vital to understanding our interconnections and to making space for solidarity.

10 Books About the Diversity of Disabled Experiences - Electric Literature

Centering disabled people’s stories is the first step to creating a more caring world

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 4d

Yet another literary award you're never gonna win. (via @mcsweeneys.net)

Five Under Five: Five Fiction Awards for Writers Under Five

McSweeney’s received nearly one thousand responses to its call for submissions to its first “Five Under Five” contest, showcasing the written work ...

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