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The top 10 neighbors for Electric Literature span six distinct subcategories — magazines, blogs, websites, book publishers, authors, and podcasts — all compressed into a similarity band of just 0.97 to 0.99. That tight spread with no dominant neighbor is the defining structural feature here.
Similarity scores measure how closely two entities' audience compositions resemble each other. The two nearest neighbors, The Millions (0.99) and The Rumpus (0.99), are both blogs, not magazines — the same subcategory as Electric Literature itself accounts for only three of the ten slots: Granta (0.98), LA Review of Books (LARB) (0.98), and Harper's Magazine (0.97). The remaining five positions go to Literary Hub (0.98) and Longreads (0.97) as websites, Timothy McSweeney (0.98) as a book publisher, Jessica Valenti (0.97) as an author, and The Moth (0.97) as a podcast. The mix — literary blogs, long-form websites, independent publishers, a single author, and a storytelling podcast — points to an audience defined less by format than by a consistent orientation toward literary and essayistic culture across channels.
The flat shape means no single neighbor pulls ahead; this audience is broadly shared across the literary-web ecosystem rather than concentrated around any one outlet or kind.
