In “Vigil,” Rage Is a Tool for Compassion and Liberation - Electric Literature George Saunders’s new novel examines the line between sympathy and complicity

My essay on George Saunders' VIGIL is up today at @Electricliterature.com

Saunders has long encouraged us to "revise toward kindness." But in Vigil, he asks what happens when empathy veers toward complicity?

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Electric Literature Best Nonfiction of 2025 list includes HOW TO BE UNMOTHERED: a Trinidadian memoir 🥳🎉🎊🙌🏾

Thank you @electricliterature for including How To Be Unmothered! It’s a joy to have my work be one of the favourites 🥰💛🤓

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the Last Book I Ever Read: The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas:
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The Commuter’s Most Popular Posts of 2024: There’s no perfect metaphor for the experience of looking back on a year of The Commuter issues. It’s a little… https://electriclite #TheCommuter #ElectricLiterature

In My Worst Nightmares My Father Transitions - Electric Literature She apologizes for all the vitriol she flung at me, crying thick tears through false eyelashes

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Check out my #essay on trans identity with Electric Literature. It's got religious trauma, it's got family, it's got. It's really really trans y'all. Right through the link on #ElectricLiterature!

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All Writing Is About Death - Electric Literature “Death in Fiction” by Scott Cheshire, recommended by Halimah Marcus for Electric Literature

"Death in Fiction" by Scott Cheshire, recommended #shortstory by Halimah Marcus for #ElectricLiterature | Issue 622
"Tom Barrett, the narrator of Scott Cheshire’s “Death in Fiction,” is a divorced, former Jehovah’s Witness. He is also a struggling novelist...

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