I’m about 1/2 through the Hitler essay in volume six of Knausgaard. Not an exaggeration to call it the most difficult piece of literature I’ve ever read. Knausgaard captures the most flamboyantly grotesque aspects of Hitler’s personality and rediscovers them in the ordinary surfaces of modern life.

Off Florida State Highway 47.

HERMESLANG by Spyridon St. Kogkas erratumpress.com/hermeslang

This is probably the best thing I've written so far in my life. www.erratumpress.com/the-prodigio...

New dadaisms by @jmartinpoetry.bsky.social in issue 1 of The New Monuments www.thenewmonuments.com/JoshuaMartin...

The Strategic Ambiguity of the weekly NFL injury report.

I am reading for issue 2 of The New Monuments. Send your best experimental fiction/nonfiction/poetry/sui generis writing to [email protected]. Issue 1 is available here:

Five poems by Heikki Huotari: www.thenewmonuments.com/HeikkiHuotar...

I want to read your writing.

". . .the fundamental problem is he was born inside this body instead of another . . ." Read "The Room Without Dreams" by @lance-olsen.bsky.social in The New Monuments Issue 1

I want to read your writing.

Issue 1, now online.

Delighted to link to an excerpt from my novel-in-progress, The Room Without Dreams, in the launch issue of a great new journal of innovative writing practices, The New Monuments.

Two new pieces up today in the first issue of New Monuments @thenewmonuments.bsky.social as well as work from @njapoetry.bsky.social and several other great writers. Thanks to @ericblix.bsky.social www.thenewmonuments.com/NewMonuments...

Issue 1 of The New Monuments is live. Thank you to the contributors in this inaugural issue. Lance Olsen @lance-olsen.bsky.social Nathan Anderson @njapoetry.bsky.social Joshua Martin @jmartinpoetry.bsky.social Rebecca Greenes Gearheart Odin Meadows Heikki Huotari Arnold Koch

Coming soon

My dream is to teach a yearlong Proust seminar for aspiring fiction writers. First three volumes in the fall, last four in the spring. I'd teach it alongside Barthes' The Preparation of the Novel and Camera Lucida. Absorb the moods and patterns of the sad French boys.

I think the only point of "writing" this way is "to have produced a text." If you don't like or can't do the actual work of writing, just do something else with your time. Jesus.

What’s with the guy who is always on here asking for money and is always apparently in an urgent crisis because he wants to live on a boat?

I’m reading Proust and Knausgaard side by side. It’s fun.

I read Grant Maierhofer's book, Ebb, this week. Very much recommend it. I was struck by the agility and blunt sincerity of his prose.

The New Monuments is an internet journal featuring conceptual writing, broadly understood. Currently open for submissions. [email protected] www.thenewmonuments.com

This is a good article.

Bought myself the Moncrieff box set of In Search of Lost Time as a treat after a difficult school year. It is the summer of Proust.

“It seems that beyond the barrier, there are only more barriers.” The New Monuments publishes conceptual writing, broadly understood. Send your work to [email protected]

“If ever there was an example of action in entropy, this is it. The action is frozen into an array of plastic and neon, and enhanced by the sound of Muzak faintly playing in the background.” send your work to [email protected]

The New Monuments is an internet journal publishing conceptual writing and digital ephemera. Send your work to [email protected]

“An almost alchemic fascination with inert properties is [the] concern. [An artist] prefers to turn gold into cement.” thenewmonuments.com [email protected]

I was joking in my group chat that the Wolves would miss 40 3-point attempts and still beat the Lakers. The Wolves missed exactly 40 3-point attempts and still beat the Lakers.

“Time becomes a place minus motion. If time is a place, then innumerable places are possible.” thenewmonuments.com [email protected]

“Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem. Questions about form seems as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.” thenewmonuments.com/index.html [email protected]

The first issue is already coming together. Looking to publish mid-summer. Send me your best.

“Instead of being made of natural materials, such as marble, granite, or other kinds of rock, the new monuments are made of artificial materials, plastic, chrome, and electric light.” thenewmonuments.com/index.html [email protected]

“Far from creating a mood of dread, the power failure created a mood of euphoria. An almost cosmic joy swept over all the darkened cities. Why people felt that way may never be answered.” thenewmonuments.com/index.html

New publisher listing for: The New Monuments @thenewmonuments.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; non-paying). #WritingCommunity

The New Monuments is on @duotrope.com.

“The New Monuments is an internet journal publishing conceptual writing and digital ephemera.” It seeks “anti-representational practices and nonstandard materials.” Send your work to [email protected]

Eric Blix @ericblix.bsky.social is a kickass writer and happens to now be accepting submissions for a kickass sounding journal:

The New Monuments is accepting submissions for its inaugural issue. [email protected] Let me have it.

thenewmonuments.com @thenewmonuments.bsky.social It’s alive.

Mergers and acquisitions in “independent” publishing. 🤮

This week, I read The Stranger for the first time since I was a teenager. I dunno…

My African Irises bloomed.

Happy Opening Day to all who celebrate.

I have a new book coming. MELANIE INDEX will out with @erratumpress.bsky.social in 2026.

I have a new book coming. MELANIE INDEX will out with @erratumpress.bsky.social in 2026.

Murk

Breton

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Mergers and acquisitions in “independent” publishing. 🤮