How Much Does Your Job Shape Your Identity?

“You think you’ve known someone for a long time,” a character in one of Jenny Bhatt’s short stories says of her Indian colleague shortly after he’s shot dead by a white man in a bar. “Maybe he never really took to us. Never really became one of us.” Turn by turn, each of his white […] The post How Much Does Your Job Shape Your Identity? appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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Orion inks flurry of deals

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Clare's Shadowhunter short stories to Walker

Walker Books will publish a new collection of short stories from American YA author Cassandra Clare featuring characters from the bestselling Shadowhunter world. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Electric Literature's Bodega Project is the literary counterpoint to the tech start-up

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Electric Literature Serializes Joe Meno’s ‘Star Witness’ Online

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Mark Millar's superhero rise from comic book nerd to Netflix winner

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Tom Hanks' event sells out in under two hours

Tickets to actor Tom Hanks' only event in the UK to promote his new collection of short stories, Uncommon Type (William Heinemann), have sold out in under two hours.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Six 'vengeful' P D James stories coming this October

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Short stories: How well do you know the genre? Take our quiz

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