Electric Literature: #1 [Paperback]

Michael Cunningham (Author), T Cooper (Author), Lydia Millet (Author), Jim Shepard (Author), Diana Wagman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 4, 2009

Electric Literature is just that, electric - five great stories that grab you. 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. These stories are charged with wit, incident, and emotional gravity right from the first sentence.

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About the Author

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).

Product Details

• Paperback: 108 pages
• Publisher: Electric Literature (June 4, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0982498004
• ISBN-13: 978-0982498002
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,044,275 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceedingly Well Done, June 30, 2009

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JNM (Western MA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Electric Literature: #1 (Paperback)

I had been looking forward to the short story by Jim Shepard and although at first I didn't love the cover of the magazine, the content by far makes up for the lit. mag. jacket. I sat down and read all stories in a row and all fabulous. This magazine reminds me of Granta and the Paris Review in that it pushes into new territory while still giving a nod to the tradition. I really enjoyed this very much although ordering was a little tricky; still used to buying books at bookstores, I guess. Highly recommended. Good for writers too as they pay generously. May try it on-line at some point; or if I buy a kindle. Look forward to more. Keep it up. Thanks so much.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Welcome Addition to the World of Literary Journals, July 11, 2009

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As a short story writer, I think it's an absolute necessity to read the newest and most inventive short fiction available. This means purchasing literary journals. I don't love everything I buy but I am usually entertained while being kept abreast of what's being written today. So, I ordered Electric Literature, not quite knowing what to expect though I was familiar with all of the contributors' work. Well, I was not disappointed. Each piece offers a very different style and subject matter, and each is well written. My favorite story (if I must admit to having one) is "Three-Legged Dog" by Diana Wagman. It's about a man who has fallen in love with a woman who has lost a breast to cancer. It is dark, funny, disturbing. My kind of fiction.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great idea, a greater lineup of talent., June 15, 2009

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L. Napoles (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Electric Literature No. 1 (Kindle Edition)

The first issue of Electric Literature is remarkable! The writers are top shelf: New work by Michael Cunningham, Jim Sheperd, T Cooper, Lydia Millet, and Diana Wagman. And with the anthology available in every format under the sun (iPhone, Kindle, print-on-demand), there's no reason not to get on board. Highly recommended, and I look forward to the next issue. Long live Electric Literature!