Our Favorite Short Stories, Flash Fiction, and Poetry to Read for Halloween
Tricks, treats, and haunting tales all available for free from the EL archives
Tricks, treats, and haunting tales all available for free from the EL archives
These authors write in obsessive, sometimes absurdist detail about the daily grind of grocery store clerks, temp employees, professors, and future space travelers
Does the very idea that a painting or sculpture has come into direct contact with the public, the viewer’s flesh, make it worth less money?
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SupportThree poems by Holly Hunt
Lindsay Merbaum’s syllabus for anyone curious about magic, feminist resistance, spiritual power, and the literature of the occult
Playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar on TikTok dramaturgy, the audiences we write for, and being part of the canon that evokes soul
Enjoy absorbing fiction from Recommended Reading every Monday and strange, diverting work from The Commuter every Wednesday.
Three poems by Holly Hunt
An excerpt from HUDSON by Hernán Ronsino, translated and recommended by Mallory Craig-Kuhn
Two poems by Forrest Rapier