#electriclit

[chadilaksono]

Re-downloaded IG to my phone to share an exciting news! @electricliterature has kindly published this lil’ zine I made awhile back — “The Last Woman on Earth.” So now more than 24 people can read it! 😁

Read it here: https://electricliterature.com/the-last-woman-on-earth-caroline-hadilaksono/

[electricliterature]

The Only Thing Better Than Dostoevsky is Pumpkin Spice Dostoevsky Can anything improve on great Russian literature? You’re damn right something can.  Read the full story on Electric Literature. 

[thearticleoftheweek]

All things considered

We’re back! Sort of. This week, we’re reconsidering some common narratives. Why do men always want us to read Infinite Jest? Why does Melania want to stay in New York? And most importantly, why was everyone so wrong about Girls?

“Men Recommend David Foster Wallace to Me” by Deirdre Coyle, April 17 2017, Electric Literature

I love DFW’s essays as much as the next girl (”Up, Simba” is one of my favorite pieces of political writing maybe ever), but the writer is very right about the way men treat Infinite Jest as the sine qua non of literary accomplishments.

AND THE RUNNERS-UP:

“Fairytale Prisoner by Choice: The Photographic Eye of Melania Trump” by Kate Imbach, April 16 2017, Medium

Life through Melania’s eye by analyzing her photography: everything viewed from behind glass or from inside a vehicle or from high above everyone else. New York is her tower and this princess is never leaving.

“On Finally Watching ‘Girls,’ a Different and Better Show Than I’d Been Led to Imagine” by Jia Tolentino, April 13 2017, The New Yorker

I have been thinking about the final season all week and have come to the conclusion that it was basically perfect. Fight me.

“The American Experiment” by Sarah Nicole Prickett, April/May 2017, Bookforum

Even Joan Didion’s unfinished notebooks are amazing. Four decades later, her thoughts on traveling through the American south are riveting, and her ability to fixate on entropy and decay are unparalleled

[rhiannoneltonauthor]

Stuck at home and bored? Had a read of these ;) I'm sure there will be something to tickle your fancy https://cstu.io/ddbfb8 #ElectricLit #Reading https://www.instagram.com/p/B_oMdHzFl1I/?igshid=7d5p2vp6glgp

[ruseg]

Need fashion inspiration for our upcoming Masquerade of the Red Death? May we suggest... (Psst--tickets are only $35 until Oct. 1, snag your early bird passes here: https://t.co/p7yNNRnGJO) pic.twitter.com/lmy9BUyTlB

— Electric Literature (@ElectricLit) September 13, 2018

[ruseg]

John Freeman on publishing the one and only Lydia Davis: "So many writers I admire came into my life when I was looking desperately for a way to live. Lydia Davis is one of them." https://t.co/vCzmkfteIw

— Electric Literature (@ElectricLit) February 25, 2018

[ruseg]

"What’s your reasoning and responsibility when choosing to write outside of your own experience?" http://bit.ly/2yXFadT

— Electric Literature (@ElectricLit) October 28, 2017

[ruseg]

"Not many writers can pull off this sense of controlled chaos like Cottrell does." @erynn_porter on @pmcottrellhttp://bit.ly/2qFAhlm http://pic.twitter.com/6HwSWuF2DP

— Electric Literature (@ElectricLit) May 20, 2017