Brandon Taylor is the senior editor of Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading and a staff writer at Lit Hub. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in fiction. His debut novel is called Real Life.

Recommended Reading:

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang

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