My essay on George Saunders' VIGIL is up today at @Electricliterature.com
Saunders has long encouraged us to "revise toward kindness." But in Vigil, he asks what happens when empathy veers toward complicity?
#georgesaunders #electricliterature
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Saunders has long encouraged us to "revise toward kindness." But in Vigil, he asks what happens when empathy veers toward complicity?
#georgesaunders #electricliterature
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In “Vigil,” Rage Is a Tool for Compassion and Liberation - Electric Literature
George Saunders’s new novel examines the line between sympathy and complicity
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February 6, 2026 at 5:46 PM
My essay on George Saunders' VIGIL is up today at @Electricliterature.com
Saunders has long encouraged us to "revise toward kindness." But in Vigil, he asks what happens when empathy veers toward complicity?
#georgesaunders #electricliterature
electricliterature.com/in-vigil-rag...
Saunders has long encouraged us to "revise toward kindness." But in Vigil, he asks what happens when empathy veers toward complicity?
#georgesaunders #electricliterature
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Electric Literature Best Nonfiction of 2025 list includes HOW TO BE UNMOTHERED: a Trinidadian memoir 🥳🎉🎊🙌🏾
Thank you @electricliterature for including How To Be Unmothered! It’s a joy to have my work be one of the favourites 🥰💛🤓
#howtobeunmothered #camilleuadams #electricliterature #bestnonfiction
Thank you @electricliterature for including How To Be Unmothered! It’s a joy to have my work be one of the favourites 🥰💛🤓
#howtobeunmothered #camilleuadams #electricliterature #bestnonfiction
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Electric Literature Best Nonfiction of 2025 list includes HOW TO BE UNMOTHERED: a Trinidadian memoir 🥳🎉🎊🙌🏾
Thank you @electricliterature for including How To Be Unmothered! It’s a joy to have my work be one of the favourites 🥰💛🤓
#howtobeunmothered #camilleuadams #electricliterature #bestnonfiction
Thank you @electricliterature for including How To Be Unmothered! It’s a joy to have my work be one of the favourites 🥰💛🤓
#howtobeunmothered #camilleuadams #electricliterature #bestnonfiction
After a bit of a slow exit out of the gate, I’m crying to see this little Goblin on a list with pretty much all my favorite writers, including Melissa Febos & @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social ! Thanks to @electricliterature & @santafewritersproject
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November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
After a bit of a slow exit out of the gate, I’m crying to see this little Goblin on a list with pretty much all my favorite writers, including Melissa Febos & @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social ! Thanks to @electricliterature & @santafewritersproject
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Recommended Read!: Both/And, an anthology of trans and GNC POC essays! Artistic and compelling stories abound, really capturing the emotions of living as trans in our current challenging landscape. 🏳️⚧️ @electricliterature
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Recommended Read!: Both/And, an anthology of trans and GNC POC essays! Artistic and compelling stories abound, really capturing the emotions of living as trans in our current challenging landscape. 🏳️⚧️ @electricliterature
We hope you will cease and read some relevant poetry that showcases the reality and perspective of the working class woman.
#electricliterature #workingclasspoems #workingclassvibes
#electricliterature #workingclasspoems #workingclassvibes
Cleanliness is next to godliness...
And she has no
control over the godliness.
--John Grey
Pause and join us for some riveting poetry on the working class woman by John Grey.
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And she has no
control over the godliness.
--John Grey
Pause and join us for some riveting poetry on the working class woman by John Grey.
open.substack.com/pub/ceaseand...
The Working Class Woman
"Cleaning Woman" by John Grey
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July 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
We hope you will cease and read some relevant poetry that showcases the reality and perspective of the working class woman.
#electricliterature #workingclasspoems #workingclassvibes
#electricliterature #workingclasspoems #workingclassvibes
Thank you so much @electricliterature for this lovely shout out today 💛 so lovely to be in this amazing group and cannot wait to celebrate the winners and finalists 🎉🎉🎉
April 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Thank you so much @electricliterature for this lovely shout out today 💛 so lovely to be in this amazing group and cannot wait to celebrate the winners and finalists 🎉🎉🎉
the Last Book I Ever Read: The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas:
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#thenewyorker
#time
#publishersweekly
#electricliterature
#vulture
#newyorktimesbookreview
#thelastbookieverread
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#nationalbookcriticscircleawardlonglist
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#time
#publishersweekly
#electricliterature
#vulture
#newyorktimesbookreview
#thelastbookieverread
March 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
the Last Book I Ever Read: The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas:
tinyurl.com/mrewjak2
#nationalbookcriticscircleawardlonglist
#thenewyorker
#time
#publishersweekly
#electricliterature
#vulture
#newyorktimesbookreview
#thelastbookieverread
tinyurl.com/mrewjak2
#nationalbookcriticscircleawardlonglist
#thenewyorker
#time
#publishersweekly
#electricliterature
#vulture
#newyorktimesbookreview
#thelastbookieverread
She Got the Money and I Did the Time: One Thing About Blue by Maureen O’Leary One thing about Blue, she always had a scheme. The summer after high school I… https://electriclite... #ElectricLiterature #MaureenOLeary
March 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
She Got the Money and I Did the Time: One Thing About Blue by Maureen O’Leary One thing about Blue, she always had a scheme. The summer after high school I… https://electriclite... #ElectricLiterature #MaureenOLeary
The Commuter’s Most Popular Posts of 2024: There’s no perfect metaphor for the experience of looking back on a year of The Commuter issues. It’s a little… https://electriclite... #TheCommuter #ElectricLiterature
January 24, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The Commuter’s Most Popular Posts of 2024: There’s no perfect metaphor for the experience of looking back on a year of The Commuter issues. It’s a little… https://electriclite... #TheCommuter #ElectricLiterature
Electric Literature’s Most Popular Articles of 2024: Never far from the pulse, a quick glance over Electric Lit’s most popular articles from this… https://electriclite... #ElectricLiterature #ReadingList
January 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Electric Literature’s Most Popular Articles of 2024: Never far from the pulse, a quick glance over Electric Lit’s most popular articles from this… https://electriclite... #ElectricLiterature #ReadingList
10 Thrilling Books About Women on the Verge: https://buff.ly/3XmHCnS by Holly Baxter @electriclit @electricliterature #wkb3b
10 Thrilling Books About Women on the Verge - Electric Literature
Tired of Live, Laugh, Love? Wallow in these stories instead
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January 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
10 Thrilling Books About Women on the Verge: https://buff.ly/3XmHCnS by Holly Baxter @electriclit @electricliterature #wkb3b
Find Creative Inspiration From Your Vices: https://buff.ly/3ZCTkgy by Tony Tulathimutte @electriclit @electricliterature #wkb32
Find Creative Inspiration From Your Vices - Electric Literature
Tony Tulathimutte's "Rejection" is a short story collection about loners obsessing over rejection
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December 24, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Find Creative Inspiration From Your Vices: https://buff.ly/3ZCTkgy by Tony Tulathimutte @electriclit @electricliterature #wkb32
7 Poetry Books for People Who Don’t Like Poetry: https://buff.ly/4dmisLS by Lyndsay Rush @electriclit @electricliterature
7 Poetry Books for People Who Don’t Like Poetry - Electric Literature
It's time for your Great Poetry Awakening
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December 13, 2024 at 5:15 PM
7 Poetry Books for People Who Don’t Like Poetry: https://buff.ly/4dmisLS by Lyndsay Rush @electriclit @electricliterature
I Love Short Stories. Do I Have to Write a Novel? https://buff.ly/3TS4RoR by Amy Stuber @electriclit @electricliterature #wkb31
I Love Short Stories. Do I Have to Write a Novel? - Electric Literature
The publishing world’s insistence on the novel as default fails to imagine what a book can do
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December 12, 2024 at 3:15 PM
I Love Short Stories. Do I Have to Write a Novel? https://buff.ly/3TS4RoR by Amy Stuber @electriclit @electricliterature #wkb31
7 Fun Novels That Reimagine the Afterlife: https://buff.ly/3zJ7ORD by Maxie Dara @electriclit @electricliterature #wkb3b
7 Fun Novels That Reimagine the Afterlife - Electric Literature
Maxie Dara recommends humorous and innovative stories on what life after death can look like
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December 11, 2024 at 5:15 PM
7 Fun Novels That Reimagine the Afterlife: https://buff.ly/3zJ7ORD by Maxie Dara @electriclit @electricliterature #wkb3b
7 Novels Set in Copenhagen: https://buff.ly/3zJuC3S by K.E. Semmel @electriclit @electricliterature #wkb3b
7 Novels Set in Copenhagen - Electric Literature
Each story offers a window into life in the Danish city
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December 9, 2024 at 5:15 PM
7 Novels Set in Copenhagen: https://buff.ly/3zJuC3S by K.E. Semmel @electriclit @electricliterature #wkb3b
8 Books About Growing Up Through Ballet: https://buff.ly/3zygdaI by Lucy Ashe @electriclit @electricliterature #wkb3b
8 Books About Growing Up Through Ballet - Electric Literature
Dancers have to navigate a painful cocktail of competitiveness, body-image issues, power dynamics, and a longing for acceptance
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December 7, 2024 at 5:15 PM
8 Books About Growing Up Through Ballet: https://buff.ly/3zygdaI by Lucy Ashe @electriclit @electricliterature #wkb3b
Thank you so much @electricliterature for including Craft in this amazing list of Best Short Story Collections. So lovely to see it there in such amazing company with some favorites. Thrilled and honored and congratulations to everyone!❤️🎉📚🎉
December 4, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Thank you so much @electricliterature for including Craft in this amazing list of Best Short Story Collections. So lovely to see it there in such amazing company with some favorites. Thrilled and honored and congratulations to everyone!❤️🎉📚🎉
8 Books That Go Behind the Scenes of Publishing: https://buff.ly/4dCSnsa by Amy Reading @electricliterature @electriclit #wkb3b
8 Books That Go Behind the Scenes of Publishing - Electric Literature
Though their work may seem invisible, editors have a major impact on the world of literature
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December 3, 2024 at 6:15 PM
8 Books That Go Behind the Scenes of Publishing: https://buff.ly/4dCSnsa by Amy Reading @electricliterature @electriclit #wkb3b
8 Books About Finding Magic in the Domestic: https://buff.ly/4dOgEeP by Cameron Walker @electricliterature @electriclit #wkb3b
8 Books About Finding Magic in the Domestic - Electric Literature
These stories of Kitchen Surrealism illuminate the strangeness of mundane everyday life
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November 27, 2024 at 3:51 PM
8 Books About Finding Magic in the Domestic: https://buff.ly/4dOgEeP by Cameron Walker @electricliterature @electriclit #wkb3b
Thank you, @Electricliterature, for publishing my story, "Open House," from TAKE ME WITH YOU NEXT TIME (coming Oct 15 from @bettybooks.bsky.social).
I'm so grateful for the wonderful writer, Kate Milliken's lovely introduction.
@wtawpress.bsky.social
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I'm so grateful for the wonderful writer, Kate Milliken's lovely introduction.
@wtawpress.bsky.social
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Her Life Is a Borrowed Room in This Open House - Electric Literature
“Open House” from TAKE ME WITH YOU NEXT TIME by Janis Hubschman, recommended by Kate Milliken
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September 23, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Thank you, @Electricliterature, for publishing my story, "Open House," from TAKE ME WITH YOU NEXT TIME (coming Oct 15 from @bettybooks.bsky.social).
I'm so grateful for the wonderful writer, Kate Milliken's lovely introduction.
@wtawpress.bsky.social
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I'm so grateful for the wonderful writer, Kate Milliken's lovely introduction.
@wtawpress.bsky.social
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So happy and moved to see my story "Ghost Story" ( an excerpt of Craft) in @electricliterature today, with a beautiful introduction by hrniles . Thank you so much, Electric Literature and Manuel Gonzalez for this very lovely recommendation. 🥹🎉
June 10, 2024 at 7:08 PM
So happy and moved to see my story "Ghost Story" ( an excerpt of Craft) in @electricliterature today, with a beautiful introduction by hrniles . Thank you so much, Electric Literature and Manuel Gonzalez for this very lovely recommendation. 🥹🎉
Happy Pride!
Check out my #essay on trans identity with Electric Literature. It's got religious trauma, it's got family, it's got. It's really really trans y'all. Right through the link on #ElectricLiterature!
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Check out my #essay on trans identity with Electric Literature. It's got religious trauma, it's got family, it's got. It's really really trans y'all. Right through the link on #ElectricLiterature!
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In My Worst Nightmares My Father Transitions - Electric Literature
She apologizes for all the vitriol she flung at me, crying thick tears through false eyelashes
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June 1, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Happy Pride!
Check out my #essay on trans identity with Electric Literature. It's got religious trauma, it's got family, it's got. It's really really trans y'all. Right through the link on #ElectricLiterature!
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Check out my #essay on trans identity with Electric Literature. It's got religious trauma, it's got family, it's got. It's really really trans y'all. Right through the link on #ElectricLiterature!
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"Death in Fiction" by Scott Cheshire, recommended #shortstory by Halimah Marcus for #ElectricLiterature | Issue 622
"Tom Barrett, the narrator of Scott Cheshire’s “Death in Fiction,” is a divorced, former Jehovah’s Witness. He is also a struggling novelist...
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"Tom Barrett, the narrator of Scott Cheshire’s “Death in Fiction,” is a divorced, former Jehovah’s Witness. He is also a struggling novelist...
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All Writing Is About Death - Electric Literature
“Death in Fiction” by Scott Cheshire, recommended by Halimah Marcus for Electric Literature
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April 18, 2024 at 3:59 PM
"Death in Fiction" by Scott Cheshire, recommended #shortstory by Halimah Marcus for #ElectricLiterature | Issue 622
"Tom Barrett, the narrator of Scott Cheshire’s “Death in Fiction,” is a divorced, former Jehovah’s Witness. He is also a struggling novelist...
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"Tom Barrett, the narrator of Scott Cheshire’s “Death in Fiction,” is a divorced, former Jehovah’s Witness. He is also a struggling novelist...
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