Electric Literature

The Lit List! 6/17-23

The Paris Review 205: A Warm Welcome

On Thursday night, The Paris Review hosted a launch party—its first in the magazine’s new 27th Street office—for its 205th issue. Attendees who braved the soggy weather found what is, likely, the office of their dreams: bookshelves full of back issues, framed Review advertisements and covers from decades past, and limitless alcohol.

Franklin Park Reading Series PEN American: Where Everrybody At

 

Review: Let the Dark Flower Blossom, by Norah Labiner

A literary meta-thriller about murder, writers, and the art of stories 

The Lit List! 6/10 – 6/16

The Lit List is a sometimes-weekly compendium of New York’s finest literary events and readings. All events are 100% free unless stated otherwise. Something you think we should know about? Email dish@electricliterature.com

Bedazzled at the One Story Debutante Ball
Click to view slideshow.

INTERVIEW: Adam Novy “the internet makes me anxious”

anovyI first met Adam Novy about four years ago when he was an instructor at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California, where I was re-taking English 101 because of a transfer credit debacle. When I talked to him after class, I learned that we’d been at Pratt Institute around the same time, lived in adjacent neighborhoods of Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy, and were both huge fans of The Smiths and The Replacements. Just as I was starting to take fiction writing seriously, he learned his novel,