![]() ![]() Once a month we feature our own recommendation of original, previously unpublished fiction. ![]() ![]() Electric Literature’s weekly fiction magazine, Recommended Reading, invites established authors, indie presses, and literary magazines to recommended great fiction. Her cat, Arie, bears no resemblance to Grievous.Ībout the Publisher: Electric Literature is an independent publisher amplifying the power of storytelling through digital innovation. Her essays have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. ![]() Her stories have aired on NPR, and have appeared in the literary magazines Witness, Bellevue Literary Review, Slice, Blackbird, among others. Maizes is the author of We Love Anderson Cooper, a short story collection, and Other People’s Pets, a novel, which are forthcoming from Celadon Books (Macmillan). Give a cat an owner, and there is already a conflict. Dogs are loyal, and cats are indifferent. People are fond of saying that “dogs have masters and cats have servants,” a statement that is mostly true, and, I will argue at the risk of revealing myself as a cat person, makes cats richer subjects for fiction. Or, the cat adopts them, as it so often goes. Maizes’s “A Cat Called Grievous,” we find a familiar situation: a couple, unable to have children and growing bored with one another, adopt a cat and name it Grievous. ![]()
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