Attacking Our Tendency To Feel Too Little: An Interview With Ben Marcus,...
The first anthology Ben Marcus edited—The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories—was my textbook in my first undergraduate creative writing workshop, led by Kevin Miller at Emerson College. I was a...
View ArticleRemaining Open To Surprise: An Interview With Ann Beattie, author of The...
I suspect that in the near-fifty years she’s been writing stories, Ann Beattie has been asked everything. And what do you ask a woman who’s been asked everything? We discussed her new collection, The...
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Infinite Kinds Of Intimacy: An Interview With Rachel B. Glaser, Author Of...
I feel terribly late to the party when it comes to Rachel B. Glaser. I first discovered her only a few months ago when reading New American Stories, the latest anthology edited by Ben Marcus. Included...
View ArticleThe Mundane and the Dramatic are Neighbors: An Interview with Vincent Scarpa
I was introduced to Vincent Scarpa through a mutual friend, who suggested that based on our shared interest in literature and writing, we should talk. Matchmaking—even of the platonic sort—doesn’t...
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Electric Literature’s Best Short Story Collections of 2015
Each year, Electric Literature polls our staff and regular contributors to pick our favorite books of the year. For fairness sake, books by Electric Literature staff were disqualified (although we...
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Jeff VanderMeer’s Epic List of Favorite Books Read in 2015
In 2015, my reading felt futile in the sense that for the first time in a few years I felt overwhelmed—too many excellent books, from too many disparate sources. Working on a couple of novels, I closed...
View ArticleUnworded Intensities: An Interview With Noy Holland, Author Of Bird
When one reads voraciously, there are many books—books of high quality, even—that tend to blur the more one reads past them. One can remember certain moments, one can map out something like a sketch of...
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10 Great Teens In Contemporary Fiction: A Reading List
One of the three central characters in High Dive (Knopf, 2016), my novel about the bombing of an English seaside hotel in 1984, is a seventeen-year-old girl named Freya. She sits behind the hotel...
View ArticleJonathan Lee & Belinda McKeon Discuss the Bombing of the Grand Hotel and...
Jonathan Lee’s third novel High Dive, just published by Knopf, is a gutsy and compelling portrait– imagined, projected, but coming across, for all that, as utterly real– of the people at the center of...
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Contemporary Innovators of the Short Story: A Reading List
There’s something embarrassing about writing short stories. First there’s the word “short,” a word I’ve always associated with my height, with having to stand in the front row in class pictures. I have...
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