McGlue (Excerpt) (Electric Literature's Recommended Reading Book 124)

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"Shortly after I did fall, irrevocably, in love with McGlue, because he’s the kind of queer, socially maladjusted bad-boy who can always float my boat—if not his own—Rivka Galchen did too. It’s not every day that a publisher launches a book prize. The publisher has to cross her legs and hope that she, the judge she’s picked, will settle on something she, the publisher, can love. Rivka says: “A sextant of the psyche, McGlue works its grand knowing through the mouthfeel of language; it’s a sharply intelligent, beautiful, and singular novel. A scion of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Raymond Carver at once, Moshfegh transforms a poison into an intoxicant.”

- Rebecca Wolff, Founder and Editor, Fence Books

About the Author: Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. She was awarded the Plimpton Discovery Prize for her stories in The Paris Review, and granted a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Rivka Galchen chose McGlue for the first annual Fence Modern Prize in Prose. Moshfegh is currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University.

About the Guest Editor: Fence Books is the offspring of Fence, a biannual literary journal published continuously since 1998. Fence Books has been publishing mostly poetry since 2001. Over the years, many of the most adored and adorable poets have won some of our prestigious book prizes, which are the Fence Modern Poets Series, the Motherwell Prize , the National Poetry Series , and the new Fence Modern Prize in Prose . Notable authors of poetry and prose include Ariana Reines, Douglas Kearney, Aaron Kunin, Harmony Holiday, Claudia Rankine, Catherine Wagner, Joyelle McSweeney, and Clark Coolidge.

About the Publisher: Electric Literature is an independent publisher amplifying the power of storytelling through digital innovation. Electric Literature’s weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading, invites established authors, indie presses, and literary magazines to recommended great fiction. Once a month we feature our own recommendation of original, previously unpublished fiction. Stay connected with us through our eNewsletter: http://bit.ly/1por3PR