Recent Articles
May 25, 2012
George Carlin, tireless student of language 0
by Emily M. Keeler
The Atlantic on George Carlin’s seven dirty words as they turn 40 years old. You can watch a 1978 performance on YouTube, if you’ve never heard the routine. Maybe put the headphones on, though, as the language is, as you might expect, deliciously filthy, so yeah, NSFW.
May 25, 2012
Tweeting with Jennifer Egan 0
by Emily M. Keeler
Jennifer Egan has a new story, “Black Box,” which is being published in ten installments over the New Yorker Fiction Twitter feed. Beginning last night at 8pm EST, and the story continues tonight at the same time.
May 25, 2012
#LitBeat: The Common Launch 0
by Emily M. Keeler
In the latest installment of #LitBeat our intrepid reporter Tiffany Gibert finds herself celebrating The Common and transfixed by The Dog House Band.
May 25, 2012
Recommended Reading is Here! 0
by Emily M. Keeler
Starting strong out of the gate with a new short story from Ben Marcus, Electric Lit‘s latest project, Recommended Reading is here! There’s also a single sentence animation and a letter from the editor. And best of all, it’s published directly to Tumblr, though you can also read the story on your Kindle or ePub [...]
May 25, 2012
Miles to Go: Notes on Marathon Reading 2
by Jeff Price
You could feel the love. Here was a group turned out to commemorate the brilliance of one guy’s colossal strivings, his dogged humility, the beautiful nuance and intricate recursions of a mind pushing past the simple given.
May 24, 2012
Drawing Connections 0
by Matthew Schantz
Stephen J. Gertz shows off some of Bukowski’s artwork; Sketches of F. Scott drawn by Zelda Fitzgerald and a portrait of their relationship by Anne Margaret Daniel; An interview with three of the more than 130 artists involved with The Graphic Canon, a series of illustrated literary classics.
