Electric Literature No. 3 - Softcover

Bender, Aimee; DeWitt, Patrick; Moody, Rick; Offill, Jenny; Sumell, Matt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982498039 ISBN 13: 9780982498033

Publisher: Electric Literature, 2010

Synopsis

In our third anthology, Aimee Bender introduces us to a young woman unable to summon the desire to sleep with her husband without payment in cash, Matt Sumell's protagonist feels capable of anything but can save no one, Rick Moody charts the rise an fall of a romance via Twitter, Patrick deWitt presents a bleak, funny tale of two movers who are going nowhere, and Jenny Offill chronicles the awkward vigil of a man caring for his terminally ill ex-wife.

About this title

About the Author:

Aimee Bender is the author of three books, and her fourth is forthcoming this summer. Her short fiction has been published in Granta, GQ, Tin House, The Paris Review, Harper’s, and more, as well as heard on “This American Life” and “Selected Shorts”. She lives in Los Angeles.

Patrick deWitt was born in British Columbia, Canada, in 1975. His debut novel, Ablutions: Notes for a Novel, was published in 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the US and Granta Books in the UK. Visit him at patrickdewitt.net

Rick Moody is the author of four novels, three collections of stories, and a memoir, The Black Veil. His new novel, The Four Fingers of Death, will be published in July 2010. He also plays music in The Wingdale Community Singers, whose new album, Spirit Duplicator is out now.

Jenny Offill is the author of the novel Last Things, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the L.A. Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Story, Epoch, The Gettysburg Review, Boulevard, and The San Francisco Review of Books, among other places.

A native of Long Island, New York, Matt Sumell is currently living in Los Angeles and finishing up his first collection of interconnected short stories, tentatively titled Making Nice. A graduate of UC Irvine’s MFA program, he has been the recipient of the Arlene Cheng Fellowship in Creative Writing, the Glenn Schaeffer Award, and a Wagner Fellowship. His short fiction has appeared in Faultline, The Brooklyn Review, Book Glutton, SaltGrass, The Greenbelt Review, and Noon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Electric Literature
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0982498039
• ISBN 13: 9780982498033
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120