Electric Literature
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Founded:
2009
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Founded:
2009

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http://www.electricliterature.com
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ELECTRIC LITERATURE is just that, electric—five great stories that grab you.

We are a bi-monthly anthology of short fiction. We select stories charged with wit and emotional gravity right from the first sentence. You choose how you want to read them. We deliver content in every viable medium.

Mission:

THE SHORT STORY IS UNIQUELY SUITED FOR OUR AGE

A.O. Scott said recently in the New York Times, “The blog post and the tweet may be ephemeral ... but the culture in which they thrive is fed by a craving for more narrative.”

By publishing gripping narratives from America's best contemporary writers and embracing new forms of distribution, we hope to facilitate a renaissance of the short story.

THE BOOK IS GETTING GREENER

We love books, and are committed to having paperback copies of Electric Literature available. But we have adopted an environmentally conscious approach to publishing: Ultimately, the content of a book is information, and the methods of distributing information have changed. Electronic publishing is the greenest option: it kills no trees, requires very little energy, never goes out of print, and can reach anyone on the planet. To create the paper version of Electric Literature, we use print-on-demand, ensuring that every copy has a home.

A LIGHT ON THE HORIZON

People of our generation—with one foot in the past and one in the future—must make sure that the media gap is bridged in a way that preserves and honors literature. We don’t want to be sentimental old folks in a world where literary fiction is only read by an esoteric few.
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Electric Literature no.1

Our Summer 2009 debut anthology features the first published excerpt from Michael Cunningham's forthcoming novel. This issue also features new fiction by some of America's most innovative and important contemporary writers, including Jim Shepard, T Cooper, Lydia Millet, and Diana Wagman. The stories in Electric Literature are charged with wit, incident, and emotional gravity right from the first sentence.

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T Cooper is the author of the novels Lipshitz Six, Or Two Angry Blondes (Plume), and Some Of The Parts (Akashic Books).

Michael Cunningham is the author of the novels A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, The Hours, and Specimen Days. The Hours won the 1999 PEN Faulkner and Pulitzer prizes.

Lydia Millet's new collection of short stories, Love in Infant Monkeys, will be published in October by Soft Skull Press. She's the author of six novels, most recently How the Dead Dream (2008). Her 2002 novel My Happy Life won the PEN-USA Award for Fiction.

Jim Shepard is the author of six novels, including most recently Project X, and three story collections, including most recently Like You'd Understand, Anyway, which was nominated for the National Book Award and won The Story Prize.

Diana Wagman is a novelist and screenwriter. She has three published novels: Skin Deep (University Press of Mississippi, 1997); Spontaneous (St. Martin's Press, 2000) which won the 2001 USA PEN West Literary Award for Fiction; and BUMP (Carroll & Graf, 2003).