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ElectricLit

  1. 50 shades of gray across the US: j.mp/Ky1biQ // @pageturner
  2. MT @RolandGulliver: Check out Recommended Reading shar.es/qvq53 A great story, every week, free! The Literary Gods are smiling on us!
  3. A graphic biography of Hunter S. Thompson: j.mp/Ky0Dtd // @brainpicker
  4. Free subscriptions to @shelfmagazine: reviews, interviews, and excerpts from the best indie presses: j.mp/JAoTNZ
  5. A chillingly illustrated edition of Edgar Allan Poe's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" j.mp/KxZS3n // @huffpostarts
  6. 15 summer reads recommended by indie booksellers: j.mp/KxXUzV // @nprbooks
  7. "Her death, today, would be fitting. A comeuppance." — Ben Marcus j.mp/JAnLK7
  8. MT @venetianblonde: The Jazz Age: Zelda's old, newly discovered perspective on Scott's face bit.ly/JsDPeQ
  9. "Is there, for each of us, a culprit who will have had it coming when we go?" — Ben Marcus: j.mp/JAnLK7
  10. Hanky panky: @pankmagazine invades @wordbrooklyn j.mp/JAqvY7
  11. Leigh Stein, Sarah Rose Etter, and others battle it out at Literary Death Match: j.mp/JAqkMo // @LDM_NYC
  12. @wellreadisjen @lindsayowrite Sorry, Jenny. It's available online, or you can easily convert the ePub to a Kindle file: j.mp/JAohYG
  13. The Mingle: a mixer for NY's lit crowd and sundry media types j.mp/JAnuqC
  14. The Jazz Age: new perspectives on the era that begat Gatsby j.mp/JAmFhs // @shelfmagazine
  15. The digitized diaries of Queen Victoria: j.mp/KBBTMJ // @artsbeat
  16. Wes Anderson bingo (is brilliant): j.mp/KBAVjo
  17. George Carlin's "7 dirty words" bit turns 40: j.mp/KBzYYz // @timbella @theatlanctic #NSFWofcourse