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celebrating true heroes on Memorial Day

"When I see my name etched in marble or granite, I remember the stories told by my family of my uncle’s closed-casket funeral: a box of body parts & my grandmother clawing at the lid. When I die, I want to be anonymous, with no memorials…."—from "Blood Drive" minorliteratures.com/2024/02/07/b...

Gracias to Gonzoid for giving these two fellows a home. 🫶 gonzoid.neocities.org/AlinaStefane...

He was one of those men who are perpetually surprised at being in possession of a name, just as one marvels, in passing before a mirror, at possessing a face, and that it should be precisely the face that it is. Marguerite Yourcenar, The Abyss (Tr. Grace Frick)

Greater Austin Book Festival this Saturday at the Central Library in downtown Austin! Come and buy some books and hear me talk!

"The crowd in the car was so dense, it pressed me against the doors. I had a claustrophobic attack, with the wide open Bahnhofstrasse gliding behind me. That horrendous crush, and my uncontrollable panic, compelled me to reflect for the first time on the concept of space."

the official pub. date of AN ACCOUNT OF MARVELS AND BEASTS (tr. Maxwell Massa) is in a week, but the book is in Seattle & orders began shipping this wk at 356pp + with hundreds of notes, this is a monumental work of scholarship & translation. preview it at the link below:

"Julius is going abroad to study this fall. He intends to be a professor." "What's that matter with him? Does he have poor health?" Willa Cather, One of Ours

I'm glad we're taking AI to court for plagiarism, but how did we decide on Scott Turow as our representative? Who do we have on Art image copyright? Thomas Kinkade?

it's unfair to characterize Ayn Rand as being indifferent to the plight of the poor - she actually wanted to murder and dismember them (am reading Lisa Duggan's Mean Girl) that Christian icon was an ideological Marquis de Sade (without the wit/talent)

If you missed Said’s lectures Reith lectures, they are here.

this will be the cover of Zizek's next book

this gives joy

The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque / Deleuze

tried to use the word "botification" and the bot autocorrected to "notification" [shiver down my spine]

Capitalism fracks the sensorium. Lauren Berlant

It's Indie April. Support your local indie author! #readsky #booksky #writingcommunity

if you look closely, the real joke is in the profile pic - I'm finally admitting authorship [apparently no one has taken a good look at my profile pic]

on this day every year I think of my friend @joshuarothes.bsky.social and hope this is the year he makes his triumphant return to social media with a well-crafted whopper

T. Eliot backwards spells toilet. - @nameofauthor.bsky.social

We are metonymies, we cling, vivacious mortals that we are, like ivies to the banks of shipwrecked books. Helene Cixous (Tr. Laurent Milesi)

Very much enjoying the latest by @joshuarothes.bsky.social

“the book of a time where our dreams find rest” @erratumpress.bsky.social

Free, stupid, manipulable, absorbed by if not addicted to trivial stimuli and gratifications, the subject of repressive desublimation in advanced capitalist society is not just libidinally unbound...but released from...general expectations of social conscience and social comprehension. Wendy Brown

The economizing side of neoliberalism added force to the nihilism of the age...first in leaving nothing untouched by entrepreneurialization and monetization and then, with financialization, submitting every aspect of human existence to investor calculations about its future value. Wendy Brown

or asterismbooks.com

The site of immediate reality has become an orchid in the land of technology. Walter Benjamin (Tr. Harry Zohn)

Bernhard's best imho

taken me decades to see through canonical inculcation and understand how clearly and to what extent: Djuna Barnes & Anna Kavan >>>>> Fitzgerald & D.H. Lawrence (having only read Nightwood & Ice until recently)

It is not some poor chap who believes himself to be king who is comical…but a king who believes that he really is a king. Alenka Zupancic

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. George W. Bush

…it was the same with everything, nothing was left as it was, something was always altering something else… Djuna Barnes, No Man's Mare

Who wants to submit a panel proposal with me? Open to any topic as long as it (also) advocates for the complete destruction of the reigning translation/publication paradigm.

THERE IS A BEAUTIFUL METAPHOR in a video by an artist who pointed his camera at the tip of Manhattan during the entire month of September 2001. He intended to record the fact that nothing happened, to record the non-event. Baudrillard

To bury paintings in a safe has become a worldwide pastime, played with passion. Philippe Sollers, Watteau in Venice (Tr. Alberto Manguel)

Poetry, even that of…the wildest odes…had a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria

Josh sighting

"When people ask me about my creative process..." let me stop you right there, nobody much less plural "people" have asked you about your creative process (one day back and I'm already getting cranky and subtweeting so will sign off and go do some stuff irl)

[Bodies are] more tender than the majority of things on Earth. You can pierce through them with a needle, with a nail, it would be easy, you wouldn’t even have to push that hard. Laura Vazquez, The Endless Week (Tr. Alex Niemi) ty @dorothyproject.bsky.social for introducing me to this author

"The woman’s first interview was entered into the FBI’s case files on August 9, 2019, just one day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell."

testament to how worthless a human being Epstein was, nobody even mentions how Trump so clearly had him murdered because it's not in the top 100 worst things he's done DOJ Scrubs Record of Interviews With Trump Accuser From Epstein Files newrepublic.com/post/206765/... via @newrepublic.com

including work from Daniel Gianfranceschi, Sharon Xuanling Zhang, Steinar Løding (tr. Jordan Berger) @zissenberg.bsky.social @wjdavies.bsky.social , David Vichnar @nameofauthor.bsky.social Gabriel Payares (tr. Paul Filev), interviews with Antonio Moresco and Jennifer K. Dick, & more ...

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

“Instead of the monumental ‘Who Am I,’ Lu refracts identity to show how we are as much the small hopes we have for our children as the faded memories we have of a distant home. Or the rumors we try to outrun.” Easily one of the most pleasurable reads in quite a while.

"In The Tempest, there are four characters who are wrongly believed dead, leading to astonished encounters in the latter Acts. In The Comedy of Errors, there are six." — @nameofauthor.bsky.social Afterword — [name of author] minorliteratures.com/2026/01/21/a...

and coming up this week ... — @wjdavies.bsky.social on King of the Ring 1998 (and Wes Brown's Breaking Kayfabe) — an extract from @nameofauthor.bsky.social 's new book with @incastellated.bsky.social — Daniel Gianfranceschi relinquishing control

Have you ordered a copy of @tobiasvryan.bsky.social's debut novel yet? As the founder of minor lits, F. Sdrigotti, noted: "the quiet horror of existence runs through this unsettling and beautifully restrained novel; Tobias Ryan turns silence into revelation, every omission charged with meaning."

Man, who is an organic continuation of the Logos, thinks he can sever that continuity and exist apart from it. Heraclitus