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"There was nothing new in Fabo’s story about the car. He always launched into it by tightening and slackening his grip around the steering wheel with its treasured leather cover ..." Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr.
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Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. Ena Selimović)
There was nothing new in Fabo’s story about the car. He always launched into it by tightening and slackening his grip around the steering wheel with its treasured leather cover. Aaaay, those Bosnia…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/cloud-the-color-of-skin-nebojsa-lujanovic-tr-ena-selimovic/
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"In the chipped rearview mirror whose corroded edges were covered with grease, the small unobstructed circle in the center framed the passenger’s face when Fabo looked from a certain angle." – Nebojša Lujanović, tr.
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"He searched frantically for a topic he hadn’t yet breached, because in those short intervals of silence, he became what he really was: a person without anyone, without a history, without roots ..." — Nebojša Lujanović (tr.
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Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. Ena Selimović)
There was nothing new in Fabo’s story about the car. He always launched into it by tightening and slackening his grip around the steering wheel with its treasured leather cover. Aaaay, those Bosnia…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/cloud-the-color-of-skin-nebojsa-lujanovic-tr-ena-selimovic/
about 18 hours ago
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congratulations to
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"He searched frantically for a topic he hadn’t yet breached, because in those short intervals of silence, he became what he really was: a person without anyone, without a history, without roots ..." — Nebojša Lujanović (tr.
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Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. Ena Selimović)
There was nothing new in Fabo’s story about the car. He always launched into it by tightening and slackening his grip around the steering wheel with its treasured leather cover. Aaaay, those Bosnia…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/cloud-the-color-of-skin-nebojsa-lujanovic-tr-ena-selimovic/
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"There was nothing new in Fabo’s story about the car. He always launched into it by tightening and slackening his grip around the steering wheel with its treasured leather cover ..." Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr.
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Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. Ena Selimović)
There was nothing new in Fabo’s story about the car. He always launched into it by tightening and slackening his grip around the steering wheel with its treasured leather cover. Aaaay, those Bosnia…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/cloud-the-color-of-skin-nebojsa-lujanovic-tr-ena-selimovic/
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Ena Selimović
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Thrilled to share an excerpt from a book whose English translation is only available in continental Europe but took me nearly a year to complete, and grateful to
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Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr.
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Cloud the Color of Skin — Nebojša Lujanović (tr. Ena Selimović)
There was nothing new in Fabo’s story about the car. He always launched into it by tightening and slackening his grip around the steering wheel with its treasured leather cover. Aaaay, those Bosnia…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/11/06/cloud-the-color-of-skin-nebojsa-lujanovic-tr-ena-selimovic/
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Bill Yuckman
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My
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interview with Jack Z Bratich is out! We touch on contemporary fascism, nihilist masculinity, and how to claw back the carnivalesque. Check it out!
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a huge thank you to Christina Cacouris, Eve Hill-Agnus, Lisa Robertson and Greg Gerke for their reading/discussion last night, and to Ben and Millie for hosting here's to the next one ...
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“It’s not just that the far right is reactionary, that it reacts to something, but it’s a preventive counter-revolution”: An Interview with Jack Z. Bratich — Daniel Lukes
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“It’s not just that the far right is reactionary, that it reacts to something, but it’s a preventive counter-revolution”: An Interview with Jack Z. Bratich — Daniel Lukes
As pundits scramble to define fascism for Trump 2.0, a recent book by media scholar Jack Z. Bratich, investigating the theme of “microfascism,” may come in handy. The term, coined by Gilles Deleuze…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/its-not-just-that-the-far-right-is-reactionary-that-it-reacts-to-something-but-its-a-preventive-counter-revolution-an-interview-with-jack-z-bratich-dani/
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Absolutely fascinating read - on microfascism, and the rise of the far right in meme culture.
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"Today, what does it mean to take the internet as the media cultural expression of contemporary fascism? Or certain digital networks and the production of memes?" Jack Z. Bratich talks to Daniel Lukes
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“It’s not just that the far right is reactionary, that it reacts to something, but it’s a preventive counter-revolution”: An Interview with Jack Z. Bratich — Daniel Lukes
As pundits scramble to define fascism for Trump 2.0, a recent book by media scholar Jack Z. Bratich, investigating the theme of “microfascism,” may come in handy. The term, coined by Gilles Deleuze…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/its-not-just-that-the-far-right-is-reactionary-that-it-reacts-to-something-but-its-a-preventive-counter-revolution-an-interview-with-jack-z-bratich-dani/
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"The classical carnivalesque reverses power relations. So, the right flipped the flip, and thus it becomes a punching-down version of the carnivalesque; the cruelty becomes part of that reversed affect." Jack Z. Bratich talks to Daniel Lukes
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“It’s not just that the far right is reactionary, that it reacts to something, but it’s a preventive counter-revolution”: An Interview with Jack Z. Bratich — Daniel Lukes
As pundits scramble to define fascism for Trump 2.0, a recent book by media scholar Jack Z. Bratich, investigating the theme of “microfascism,” may come in handy. The term, coined by Gilles Deleuze…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/its-not-just-that-the-far-right-is-reactionary-that-it-reacts-to-something-but-its-a-preventive-counter-revolution-an-interview-with-jack-z-bratich-dani/
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"Today, what does it mean to take the internet as the media cultural expression of contemporary fascism? Or certain digital networks and the production of memes?" Jack Z. Bratich talks to Daniel Lukes
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“It’s not just that the far right is reactionary, that it reacts to something, but it’s a preventive counter-revolution”: An Interview with Jack Z. Bratich — Daniel Lukes
As pundits scramble to define fascism for Trump 2.0, a recent book by media scholar Jack Z. Bratich, investigating the theme of “microfascism,” may come in handy. The term, coined by Gilles Deleuze…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/its-not-just-that-the-far-right-is-reactionary-that-it-reacts-to-something-but-its-a-preventive-counter-revolution-an-interview-with-jack-z-bratich-dani/
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“It’s not just that the far right is reactionary, that it reacts to something, but it’s a preventive counter-revolution”: An Interview with Jack Z. Bratich — Daniel Lukes
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“It’s not just that the far right is reactionary, that it reacts to something, but it’s a preventive counter-revolution”: An Interview with Jack Z. Bratich — Daniel Lukes
As pundits scramble to define fascism for Trump 2.0, a recent book by media scholar Jack Z. Bratich, investigating the theme of “microfascism,” may come in handy. The term, coined by Gilles Deleuze…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/11/04/its-not-just-that-the-far-right-is-reactionary-that-it-reacts-to-something-but-its-a-preventive-counter-revolution-an-interview-with-jack-z-bratich-dani/
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In Memoriam PPP (1922-1975)
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and coming up this week ... — Jack Z. Bratich interviewed by Daniel Lukes — an extract from Nebojša Lujanović's Cloud the Color of Skin, translated by
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Monthly Dispatch #28 — October 2025
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last week @ Minor Lits ... — poetic prose from
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interviewed by
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— new fiction from Mikra Namani
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The Sentimental Monster — Mikra Namani
“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind…” Dear Mother, I am often reminded of King Solomon’s proverb whenever I think of the history and trajectory of our family, our lives, and all…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/10/30/the-sentimental-monster-mikra-namani/
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and coming up this week ... — Jack Z. Bratich interviewed by Daniel Lukes — an extract from Nebojša Lujanović's Cloud the Color of Skin, translated by
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Monthly Dispatch #28 — October 2025
A letter from the editor[s]
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last week @ Minor Lits ... — poetic prose from
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—
@mortenhoijensen.bsky.social
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minorliteratures.com/2025/10/29/a...
— new fiction from Mikra Namani
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The Sentimental Monster — Mikra Namani
“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind…” Dear Mother, I am often reminded of King Solomon’s proverb whenever I think of the history and trajectory of our family, our lives, and all…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/10/30/the-sentimental-monster-mikra-namani/
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Monthly Dispatch
#28—ft
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@matthewkinlin.bsky.social
Mikra Namani
@eoghancarrick.bsky.social
@dluntz.bsky.social
@evawyles.bsky.social
Bothayna Al-Essa
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Dimitris Lyacos Toti O’Brien +
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Monthly Dispatch #28 — October 2025
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Monthly Dispatch #28 — October 2025
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Monthly Dispatch
#28—ft
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Mikra Namani
@eoghancarrick.bsky.social
@dluntz.bsky.social
@evawyles.bsky.social
Bothayna Al-Essa
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Dimitris Lyacos Toti O’Brien +
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La Doleur Exquisabella
7 days ago
I love this, about finding the connections of our minds (and hearts) through reading together, in opposition to careerist networking. It always makes me so happy to receive or send ‘I read/saw this and thought of you / thought this would interest you’ (it’s my love language).
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Monthly Dispatch #28 — October 2025
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Monthly Dispatch #28 — October 2025
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"I am often reminded of this King Solomon’s proverb whenever I think of the history and trajectory of our family, our lives, and all that we once held dear ..." The Sentimental Monster — Mikra Namani
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“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind…” Dear Mother, I am often reminded of this King Solomon’s proverb whenever I think of the history and trajectory of our family, our lives, an…
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"It’s not that I fail. It’s that this is what succeeding now looks like ..."
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I Am Afraid to Die
minor beef[s] is a new feature where you can express your literary gripes, complaints and pet hates … Is there a writer you despise who is getting too much praise? a lauded critic whose opinio…
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"I’d show you my modest library, a playhouse fantasy fitting in as a poor substitute for the lost sanctuary of my youth. Or maybe it’s more than that ..." The Sentimental Monster — Mikra Namani
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The Sentimental Monster — Mikra Namani
“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind…” Dear Mother, I am often reminded of King Solomon’s proverb whenever I think of the history and trajectory of our family, our lives, and all…
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#28—ft
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I Am Afraid to Die
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"I am often reminded of this King Solomon’s proverb whenever I think of the history and trajectory of our family, our lives, and all that we once held dear ..." The Sentimental Monster — Mikra Namani
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“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind…” Dear Mother, I am often reminded of this King Solomon’s proverb whenever I think of the history and trajectory of our family, our lives, an…
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“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind…” Dear Mother, I am often reminded of this King Solomon’s proverb whenever I think of the history and trajectory of our family, our lives, an…
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"I don't think God reads anymore. Nothing contemporary, at least ..."
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I Am Afraid to Die
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"I’m writing about him at a really dramatic time in his life. We see him at one of his worst moments politically and we end with, I think, a much more sympathetic character ..."
@mortenhoijensen.bsky.social
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“[W]e do inhabit, similar to the the years before modernism, a sense that our world has irrevocably changed”: An Interview with Morten Høi Jensen — Cristina Politano
Morten Høi Jensen is a Danish-American writer whose recent book, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain (Yale University Press, 2025) presents, through the l…
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" I don’t know what it is about him, but I sympathize with his neuroses and anxieties. He was an intensely neurotic and a very fearful person, and it comes out a lot in in his fiction."
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"I would say this book is a story of a conservative who recognizes where the conservative movement is headed, and out of the sense of wanting to do the right thing, defends democracy against what becomes national socialism ..." —
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“[W]e do inhabit, similar to the the years before modernism, a sense that our world has irrevocably changed”: An Interview with Morten Høi Jensen — Cristina Politano
Morten Høi Jensen is a Danish-American writer whose recent book, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain (Yale University Press, 2025) presents, through the l…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/10/29/an-interview-with-morten-hoi-jensen-cristina-politano/
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"I’m writing about him at a really dramatic time in his life. We see him at one of his worst moments politically and we end with, I think, a much more sympathetic character ..."
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“[W]e do inhabit, similar to the the years before modernism, a sense that our world has irrevocably changed”: An Interview with Morten Høi Jensen — Cristina Politano
Morten Høi Jensen is a Danish-American writer whose recent book, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain (Yale University Press, 2025) presents, through the l…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/10/29/an-interview-with-morten-hoi-jensen-cristina-politano/
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my latest interview with the writer
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on his book about thomas mann and the magic mountain
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“[W]e do inhabit, similar to the the years before modernism, a sense that our world has irrevocably changed”: An Interview with
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“[W]e do inhabit, similar to the the years before modernism, a sense that our world has irrevocably changed”: An Interview with Morten Høi Jensen — Cristina Politano
Morten Høi Jensen is a Danish-American writer whose recent book, The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain (Yale University Press, 2025) presents, through the l…
https://minorliteratures.com/2025/10/29/an-interview-with-morten-hoi-jensen-cristina-politano/
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I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
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Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
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